De wereld op zijn kop, feesten als de beesten en de gevolgen zijn voor morgen, klinkt toch hemels? Daarom ook deze blog! waarin alles op zijn kop is en wat abnormaal is wordt doodnormaal!
Over one hundred prints from the 16th to the 20th century trace the various stages of the carnival story from its beginning when the archetypal fools Polichinelle, Harlequin and the Idiot Mother, break out of an egg filled with the winds of madness, to the end of Mardi Gras at midnight, when the disguised revellers unveil themselves and the lights go out. First there is Breughel, whose Battle of the Carnival and Lent faithfully reproduces the Flemish celebrations, customs and religious traditions from Christmas to Easter. Then there is Bertelli, Bûner, Callot, Choweicki, Franco, Goya, Hogarth, Chartinet, Pinelli, Verbiest or Zelenko, who illustrate this topsy-turvy world. Feather-clad men sacrifice animals who are treated as kings, masked lepers run out from their hemp cabins, the world is turned on its head and the liberating laughter of the carnival rules supreme!
