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Michael Parekowhai - Playing Tricks (New Zealand)
Pastel
Size 28 cm x 42.5 cm
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Certificate
M2025PSL000114PA
Association Organization
PAPAT 10th Anniversary International Pastelist Special Exhibition
Creation Year
None
Condition Status
Well
Supplier
PAPAT / 2025126
Introduction
It is a visual feast of nostalgia. Michael Freeman intricately depicts a variety of puppets, clown toys, and childhood artifacts with hyper-realistic techniques, drawing the viewer into a strange scene that straddles the line between joy and the uncanny.
These exaggeratedly expressive clowns and vintage pull toys are tightly arranged, almost overcrowded, as if performing a loud yet silent play in a confined space. The image conveys not only joyful memories of childhood but also conceals the passage of time and the accumulation of memories—these once-beloved objects seem to silently await the next moment of being seen and touched.
This is a visual fable about childlike wonder, time, and memory, as well as a profound gaze by the artist into the "emotional resonance of objects."
These exaggeratedly expressive clowns and vintage pull toys are tightly arranged, almost overcrowded, as if performing a loud yet silent play in a confined space. The image conveys not only joyful memories of childhood but also conceals the passage of time and the accumulation of memories—these once-beloved objects seem to silently await the next moment of being seen and touched.
This is a visual fable about childlike wonder, time, and memory, as well as a profound gaze by the artist into the "emotional resonance of objects."
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