Dutch artist John Breed created this marvelously colorful installation for the newly opened Breuninger Shoe Store in Stuttgart, Germany. Built in a vast complex, formerly an industrial space, it is the largest in Europe. The work represents the obsession that most women have with accessories, especially shoes.
The thought process behind the angles of the wall mounted legs and shoes, is based on the head of Medusa with her hair of waving snakes. As he wanted a more feminine and seductive aspect to his work, he replaced the snakes with 145 female legs, each one wearing a different shoe. After spending days mixing the paint in a rainbow of graduating shades, he painted each leg and shoe, the former with a slight difference to the latter, a reference to the habit of women to buy shoes very similar to the ones they already own!
A homage to the ‘madness of women about buying shoes.’
