Ο διάσημος Αλίκη στη Χώρα των Θαυμάτων καλλιτέχνη Frances Broomfield εργάζεται αυτή τη στιγμή σε αρκετά νέα έργα ζωγραφικής Αλίκη για να γιορτάσουν την παγκόσμια, εθνικές και τοπικές εκδηλώσεις που ενορχηστρώνεται από τον Λιούις Κάρολ Κοινωνία της Βόρειας Αμερικής (LCSNA) το φθινόπωρο του 2015 για να τιμήσει την 150η επέτειο από τη δημοσίευση του Carroll αγαπημένη Περιπέτειες της Αλίκης στη Χώρα των Θαυμάτων.
Εν τω μεταξύ,, εάν έχετε μια ζωηρή φαντασία και είναι ένας διακαής Αλίκη στη Χώρα των Θαυμάτων ανεμιστήρα, you don’t have to wait till then to see some of Broomfield’s amazing work. A wonderful selection of her art is currently being exhibited at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery in England through May 31st 2014. The Warrington Museum asked Frances to produce a family exhibition to coincide with the launch of their new Cabinet of Curiosities gallery, which reinterprets the kind of museum display that Lewis Carroll would have seen when he famously visited an exhibition in Warrington in 1840. According to Roger Jeffery, Interpretation and Design Officer for the Museum, “Στο 1840 έκθεση, Carroll ανακάλυψε ένα θησαυρό από τα παράδοξα που είναι βέβαιο ότι θα τον έχουν εμπνεύσει ως συγγραφέας. It’s quite possible that he saw the dodo which is now on display in our new gallery!”
I personally fell in love with Frances Broomfield’s lush, distinctive and magnificent Alice artworks many years ago while wandering through Alice’s Shop in Oxford city. Ultimately we connected and I included her work in Η Ρεάλ Αλίκη στη χώρα των θαυμάτων βιβλίο. I was delighted to catch up with her to learn more about her Alice exhibition, Η περίεργη εφεύρεση του Λιούις Κάρολ.
Frances, first of all tell me what Lewis Carroll’s “Αλίκη” books mean to you?
I feel a personal connection with the Alice books because I was born in Warrington, just a few miles from Lewis Carroll, δηλαδή. Charles Dodgson’s birthplace at Daresbury. As an artist, I find the Alice books an ongoing source of inspiration.
Be our tour guide for a moment. What can visitors to your Lewis Carroll Exhibition at Warrington Museum expect to discover when they visit?
My exhibition is entitled Η περίεργη εφεύρεση του Λιούις Κάρολ, and the theme of Invention runs throughout the show. The name Lewis Carroll was invented by Charles Dodgson. Lewis Carroll invented Alice and her adventures and I have invented my own versions of some of the scenes and characters in the Alice stories.
In my exhibition there are 12 Alice pictures on the walls (each Alice book has 12 chapters). My new painting, Η Αλίκη και το λευκό κουνέλι, is displayed in its own cabinet. There is also a case displaying the books in which my work has been used, Συμπεριλαμβανομένων Η Ρεάλ Αλίκη στη Χώρα των Θαυμάτων by C.M. Rubin and Gabriella Rubin. There are different editions of the Alice books published by Oxford University Press, which have my artwork on the covers, other books by Hodder Headline, and a French version of Αλίκη by Editions Gallimard, which has my White Rabbit on the cover.
I have also made a video to show during the exhibition, which commemorates a visit Charles Dodgson made, σε ηλικία 8, from his home at Daresbury to an exhibition of objects of curiosity at Warrington in 1840. It is possible that what he saw there may have inspired some of the content of his later work.
I have also invented my own Looking Glass version of what young Charles Dodgson may have seen when he visited the 1840 έκθεση. To an imaginative child like Dodgson from a fairly isolated rural community, a visit to town must have been an exciting event, and what he saw in the five rooms of exhibits must have seemed like Wonderland.
He had his silhouette portrait made, witnessed the Invisible Girl illusion, and saw a Phantasmagoria Lantern in operation.
I have imagined how these early experiences may have made a lasting impression, which might have been reawakened when he told the story of Alice’s Adventures during the famous boating trip of 4 Ιούλιος 1862. This story was later written down at the insistence of 10 year old Alice Liddell, and then published in 1865 ως Περιπέτειες της Αλίκης στη Χώρα των Θαυμάτων, using the pen name he invented – Lewis Carroll.
The idea of making a video for my exhibition was inspired by Charles Dodgson’s own Magic Lantern shows, which consisted of images, interspersed with songs, nursery rhymes and poems. Twinkle Twinkle χαρακτηριστικά Αστεράκι σε διαφορετικές εκδόσεις σε όλο το soundtrack, leaving it to the viewer to wonder who or what the little star may be. Perhaps it was Alice Liddell: the real Alice. The little star was a kind of Invisible Girl.
Ποια είναι μερικά από τα αγαπημένα σας σε αυτό το έκθεμα?
Το αγαπημένο μου μέρος της έκθεσης είναι το βίντεο, as it contains many of my paintings which have not been seen before and which gave me the opportunity to show work from my archive alongside my Alice pictures.
I also love seeing my work in printed form, on book covers, in magazines and newspapers, and this exhibition has allowed me to display items which the public seldom sees, as well as my brand new painting, Η Αλίκη και το λευκό κουνέλι, which will eventually go on sale at Portal Painters London.
Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες σχετικά με Η περίεργη εφεύρεση του Λιούις Κάρολ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrISmRy_Sl0
To visit the Warrington Museum: http://www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events/frances-broomfield-lewis-carroll/
Photos are courtesy of Frances Broomfield and the Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
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