Punchinello As Other
Paintings by Patrick Webb
The Painting Center, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NYC
September 7, 2010 - October 2, 2010
Reception: Thursday, September 9 from 6-8 PM
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11-6PM
From catalog essay Punchinello as Uncanny Other, Brian Kloppenberg writes:
Patrick Webb’s Punchinello is uncanny. No matter what adventure or trial he’s thrown into—parade, gym, rodeo, fire, brawl, the list goes on—Punchinello continues to surprise with his unique combination of strangeness and familiarity. People seem to vaguely recognize Punch, even identify with him, while at the same time not being able to understand fully his ongoing presence in Webb’s paintings. Why Punchinello? He seems to confound as much as he beguiles. Could it be that Punchinello belongs to that paradoxical realm that Sigmund Freud attempts to define, in his 1919 essay entitled “The Uncanny,” as “that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar”?
A catalog of the exhibition is available
image: Patrick Webb, Secret, 40"x36"
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