After Van Gogh - The Potato Eaters by marinapetri (2005)

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Description MARINA`S PETRI THE NEW GREEK KARAGIOZIS Marina Petri outlines the personality of the contemporary Greek with humor but also with a critical glance through the familiar to all of us figure of Karaghiozis. The cunning and crafty protagonist of the theater of shadows. She transforms herself into a busy puppeteer and moves the threads of the artistic game. She creates images, often through the assemblage of different materials, and narrates everyday stories. She enriches the traditional thematic scheme of Karaghiozis with new actions and modernizes her sly hero.Gone are the days of slavery, poverty and misery! Karaghiozis, in the role of the contemporary Greek, is a free and satisfied man. A member of the European Community, an official citizen of the Continent. Educated, he knows everything just like his co-actor Morfonios from whom he steals in Petris work some additional characteristics. For example, he displays the arrogance of the intellectual, he dresses elegantly, he likes to show off and he is just too fond of himself.Karaghiozis the contemporary Greek, an admirer and victim of fashion, acquires one more European trait, that of the passionate art-lover, an art-collector to be. A regular visitor of the past, he travels with a time machine to the realm of yesterday in order to speak privately like a successful yuppie- with his favorite artists: the marginal Caravaggio, the lustful Balthus, the exotic Gauguin, the Mediterranean Picasso a pioneer of cubism along with Braque- the explosive Pollock, to name but a few. He penetrates with boldness into their works and becomes an integral part of them. He constantly transforms himself, reminding the viewer of his hypocritical talent. He adjusts to different environments like a chameleon, he mingles with the protagonists of the paintings, he vanishes to the inhabited spaces of the Rennaissance artists, of the fauves, the nabis, the cubists or the expressionists and provokes the viewer to discover him. He feels equ

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