Nature morte numéro 16 trente deux. (2023) Photography by Jean Turco

Nature morte number 16 thirty two. " Au clown de Sacile, aux réveils, au tampon humide, à la clef et aux oeufs, durs !"

I remember the clowns of my early childhood, the pleasure of going to the circus and waiting for them to replace the trained horses and dogs on the ring and also the acrobats who, without a net, threw themselves from one to the other beautiful ladies who they grabbed by the hands or feet when the drumming that accompanied the number stopped.

I found this clown yesterday, on the Sacile market. Honestly it is neither beautiful nor ugly, it lived as a piggy bank before I became its lucky owner.

I imagined him in this image as soon as I saw him on the table on which he was bored, associated - some will think curiously - with some other objects that have nothing banal about them, to remind someone dear to me that the clown and their often grotesque jokes are sometimes an effective medicine that can make you laugh or smile for as long as you are on the track, at a minimum.

But it is true that television, if it no longer shows us the famous "Piste aux étoiles" by Gilles Margaritis, in black and white on Wednesday evenings, shows us on the news too many other clowns, without light suits who, if they direct our world , they don't make me laugh.

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J'ai le souvenir des clowns de ma tendre enfance, du pleasure d'aller au cirque et d'attendre qu'ils remplacent sur la piste les chevaux et les chiens dressés et même les trapezistes qui, sans filet, se lançaient de l' one of the other beautiful ladies who are scared by their mains or their feet will stop the drum rotation here accompanied by the number.

There are clowns you'll find here, on the Sacile market. Honnêtement il n'est, ni beau ni laid et il a vécu en tirelire avant que j'en devienne l'heureux owner.

I have imagined it in this image since you saw it on the table on which it appears, associated - certain thoughts curiously - with those other objects which do not contain anodyne, in order to relate it to that one here is that clowns and leurs often grotesque farces are parfois an effective medicine here to make you laugh or sour the times, at least, of their presence on the slopes.

But it's true that television, if it's in our show plus the famous "Piste aux étoiles" by Gilles Margaritis, in black and white the Mercredi soir, it's our show in the current events of too many other clowns, without habit of light here, eux, s'ils dirent notre monde, ne me font pas vraiment rire.