RICCARDO GIACCONI ‘Sipario’ @kunstraumlakeside Klagenfurt ‘The curtains of a puppet theater, an enigmatic monologue, interspersed with poetic passages yet laden with violence, a performer wholends this text her voice, scenic depictions on a monitor, a puppet that has evidently fallen victim to a fire: According to artist RiccardoGiacconi, the exhibitionSiparioat Kunstraum Lakeside is “a hypothesis of a puppet show”. By compiling the very means needed forsuch a stage play in the space, he leaves it to these narrative elements and to the audience to evoke the drama, its protagonists, andtheir backgrounds.The scene is set with the eponymous “siparium”—the curtain that separates the stage from the auditorium during a change ofscenery. As isquite customary in puppet theater, the picture painted on the front of the curtain by the Compagnia Marionettistica CarloColla e Figli summarizes the play. Or in other words: It arranges visual elements from different moments of the potential narrative into asingle image. On one hand, these elements originate from the text that can be read and heard in the exhibition; on the other,it is a self-representation of the Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company, whose beginnings date back to the late eighteenth century. Ever since,members of this theater group have been working with wooden puppets in such an accomplished way that the puppets seem to teemwith life during performances…’ 📷 @johannespuch Curated by Franz Thalmair & Gudrun Ratzinger #kunstraumlakeside #klagenfurt #exhibition #research #archive #artisticresearch #riccardogiacconi #relationships #narration #coexistence #history #connectinglines #puppet #theater #puppettheater #fiction #abstraction #storytelling #worldmaking (en Kunstraum Lakeside) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkY-72rovy9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
