OVERZICHTSTENTOONSTELLING “ALL THE STRINGS IN THE HAND”
VAN POPPENSPEELSTER DAMIET VAN DALSUM IN TOLOSA (Spanje)
Op 21 maart, de Internationale dag van het Poppenspel,
werd in TOPIC, het Centrum voor de Kunst van het Poppenspel in Europa in Tolosa,
een mooie tentoonstelling geopend van de Poppen, Figuren en Objecten van de
poppenspeelster Damiët van Dalsum uit Dordrecht .
De expositie geeft een indruk van de grote variatie technieken, vormgeving en
verbeeldingen , creaties door de
poppenspeelster zelf ontworpen en uitgevoerd, van voorstellingen voor kinderen en
volwassen vanaf de jaren ’70 tot op
heden.
Zeer de moeite waard om bij een bezoek aan Spanje Tolosa
aan te doen en de expositie
“All the strings in hand” te gaan bekijken.
Ter gelegenheid van deze tentoonstelling is een prachtige
catalogus verschenen waarin veel kleurenfoto’s van het werk Damiët zijn te bewonderen en uitgebreide toelichting
op de geëxposeerde poppenspelen
INLEIDING EXPOSITIE
The first temporary exhibition of 2015
brings us from the purest Asiatic puppet tradition to the extremest contemporaneity
by the hand of our good friend and TOPIC’s benefactor, Damiet Van Dalsum. The
figures, objects and sets of Damiet van Dalsum are made to represent stories,
to arouse illusions and to create an imaginary world in which children, and
sometimes adults as well, can lose themselves. They are not meant to be shown
as autonomous art objects. However, TOPIC wanted to organise a retrospective
exhibition of Damiet van Dalsum’s work because, besides their remarkable
theatrical qualities, these puppets have a visual power of their own.
Lord pech
The first exhibition of Damiet’s figures
was in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, ten years ago. The director of the Arte
House wrote about it: I saw Van Dalsum’s puppets and pieces of scenery. I was
immediately taken by them, even though I didn’t know exactly what I was looking
at. Even now that I have had them in my hands, it’s not easy to say what their
attraction is. They’re made of almost nothing —pieces of cardboard, wire and feathers,
objects you fi nd by chance at hand at home like a bell, a fan or a piece of
fruit... And yet these ‘poor’ materials seem to give the impression of fi nely
made expensive materials. Together with this illusion of ornamental objects, there is also the
association with primitive art, with magical objects that play a role in
strange rituals. The unexpected combination of diff erent materials reminds you
of surrealist fantasies. You may also want to link this magical and primitive
with the mental world of young children, which is a source of inspiration for many artists. The
atmosphere of enchantment refers to buried feelings, to a dark world of horror,
fear and tension, but the puppets equally have something light-footed about
them - they’re peculiar and jolly. This is, I believe, what makes Van Dalsum’s
objects so compelling to look at: the absurdity of all these combinations. As
far as viewing pleasure, the use of materials and the arousal of feelings are
concerned, I see no essential diff erence from a painting or a piece of
sculpture. All the more reason, in that case, to allow them to be seen in an
artistic context.
We
hope you find this new view of the theatre as attractive as we do.
Openingstijden TOPIC
In de week van 11.00-13.00 uur
en 16.00-19.00 uur. Weekend 11.00-14.00 uur en 16.00-20.00 uur. Maandag
gesloten
Onde Day Butterfly
Coördinatie
Expositie: María
San Sebastián
Design Expositie: Els Wagemans
Design Expositie: Els Wagemans
Curator: Damiët van Dalsum
Fotografie: Matthijs Reppel
Voorstellingen van Damiët zijn regelmatig te zien in het
theatertje aan de Aardapplemarkt in Dordrecht. Informatie:
http://poppentheaterdamiet.nl/
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