The tent shown here represents a sort of storyboard of Il diavolo nel pozzo, a puppet comedy born in Colombia around 1930. The script tells the self-destruction of a community convinced of the presence of the devil in the well of the country. The artist depicts some passages and salient images of the story in the squares of the tent where we recognize, among others, the devil, the well, the fields around the village or the killing of animals. The work is part of a project dedicated by the artist to the relationship between puppetry, oral tradition and the development of a revolutionary popular culture between Italy and South America in the early part of the twentieth century.
Title: The Variational Status (tenda)
Author: Riccardo Giacconi
Date: 2016
Technique: Plastic curtain
Displayed in: Polo Santa Marta
In the Exhibition: Contemporary / Contemporaries
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