JKK FINE ARTS Gallery of European Art The Mews Courtyard 594 Valley Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 www.jkkfinearts.com Tel. (973) 744 0111 JKK FINE ARTS proudly presents   " NARCISSUS "   MARCH - MAY  2007 Opening Reception Saturday, March 3rd, 2007,  5 - 8 p.m.   Daniel Barkley, Luigi Casalino, Joanna Chrobak, Chawky Frenn, Michel Henricot, Aleksandra Nowak, Valeriy Skrypka, Damian Wojtowicz, Piotr Woroniec   Caravaggio, Narcissus, Galeria Borghese, Rome     Against the legend about Narcissus, ascribing him as a great beauty, Narcissus was an ordinary young man with rather vulgar facial features, unclear complexion , broad shoulders and elongated limbs. He resembled exactly those silly boys with an electric guitar or a movie heroes, who search in vain the sense of life on the bottom of the empty soul and who, after the idiotic adventures end up sticky. After all, the sober spectator remembers only from this muddle of drinking, sleeping and fighting, the make of the car, which carried them kindly to the chasm. Caravaggio offered the most truthful portrait of Narcissus to us. This painting hangs right now in the Villa Borghese and shows a gamin, a one of those who kill his benefactor with a fence plank. The gamin bends over the puddle. The painter Caravaggio knew that, he could be trusted… Zbigniew Herbert “Narcissus”     The brochure is available in PDF format