You
are invited to the opening of
pulcinella’s secret
an
exhibition by
Trui
Roozeveld van der Ven
alias
T.R.V.
Julie Frederikse will be opening the exhibition
Pulcinella,
often called Punch or Punchinello in English, is a character from the commedia
dell'arte.
His
traditional temperament is to be mean, vicious, and crafty and his main mode of
defense is to pretend to be too stupid to know what's going on.
In
Italian and French, and probably a few other languages, the expression
"pulchinella's
secret" means that it is an open secret, in fact, it is not a secret,
but
public knowledge. We all know it, but we don't say it.
Ironically,
in this world of commercial make-believe,
my
views are occasionally blurred by politics and religion;
- hard at
times to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit,
right and
wrong.
left and
right
are helping
themselves to each other's rhetoric;
swindlers
posing as holy men,
warmongers
pretending to make peace.
it makes
me think of:
the "long
life" tomatoes on the shelves in the supermarket,
with
their shiny red and firm skin, starting to rot from the inside :
the
rotten tomato is posing as the freshly picked one;
this
grand masquerade.
The
visual language that I use in my work here, - that of a fairy tale type of
cartoon,
somewhat
burlesque and tongue in cheek, -
suits my
idea of depicting the farcical nature of a kind of reality.
We don’t
know how “our” reality matches the “generally accepted” one.
What is
real, nearly real and that what is imagined
overlap,
replace, exclude
or
enhance each other.
That is,
in my
paintings.
TRV
March
2015
THERE WILL BE A WALKABOUT BY THE ARTIST ON SATURDAY, 21 MARCH AT 11A.M.
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