Puglianelli, 2024. - Salvatore Puglia

As a continuation of the Canopiocchi su ceramica project involving vernacular subjects, my kind followers can pre-order ceramic tiles (15×10 cm) or/and the drawings shown below by sending me the corresponding reference numbers.
The subject of this series is the popular character of Pulcinella (Punchinello) from the Neapolitan glove puppets theatre (please refer to Bruno Leone‘s Casa delle Guarattelle and to the World Enciclopedia of Puppetry Arts article).

Note: you may have noticed the play on words between “Pulcinella” and “Puglianella”, which aims to desacralize this almost mythological character, while taking artistic responsibility for such a desecration.

On June 18 I completed 104 sketches, following the venerable examples of Giandomenico Tiepolo and Mimmo Paladino Ponchinello drawings, and, as on September 19, I had done a total of 200.

The price of the each tile is 25€ (shipment fee not included); the original drawing can be bought separately, also for 25€.
The original drawings marked by an X have been sold and transferred on ceramics, but I maintain the right to reproduce them in the future.

Please also see the links to the Giorgio Agamben’s book on Pulcinella (2016), to the recent show of Mimmo Paladino drawings (Naples 2023-2024) and to the Giandomenico Tiepolo series Divertimenti per li regazzi (also, the Italian Wikipedia article on this popular figure).
If anyone finds this exercise of applied art trivial, I would appeal to the authority of Emanuele Luzzati and Enzo Mari on the subject.
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All the Pulcianelli sketches:

01-04
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05-08
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09-12
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13-16
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17-20
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21-24
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25-28
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29-32
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33-36
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37-40
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41-44
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45-48
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49-52
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53-56
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57-60
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61-64
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65-68
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69-72
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73-76
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77-80
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81-84
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85-88
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89-92
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93-96
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97-100
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101-104
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