Easter Eggs
Easter eggs, specially decorated and hidden in the garden, became the traditional gift to be presented on the morning of Easter Sunday. For Christians they symbolize Christ's resurrection and to the world at large, they represent fertility.
Many civilizations share the myth that the universe was created from an egg. While never entirely the beginning in itself, it nevertheless symbolizes germination and the birth of a new life.
A closed organic universe, with soft, rounded lines, it plays the role of an "archetypical image of completeness" (Mircea Eliade).
At the heart of one of the most ancient and paradoxical philosophical dilemmas (which came first, the chicken or the egg?), this object, both unusual and familiar, has also inspired artists: the Argentinian Lucio Fontana, who with his "astral egg", an oval pink canvas perforated with multiple holes, claims to represent the philosophy of nothingness; Hans Arp, whose work is characterized by organic shapes suggesting the forms of natural growing things, and for whom art should melt into and even merge with nature itself.
This famous egg chair, designed in 1958 by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen, has become an iconic design classic, suggesting cocooned comfort, whilst Pierre-Karl Fabergé's famous eggs display the virtuosity of the jeweller's art.
Finally, from the fable of the goose with the golden egg to the well-known proverb "once a thief always a thief", all this invites us to recognize the importance of the egg and its gastronomical, artistic and symbolic values.
