Giovanni Carandente’s Balthus is buried by art history and art critics reliant on antecedents, sources of inspiration and comparison, and negligent of internal motivation, artistic necessity and the invention of the artist
– Sir John Tenniel
the Piero-Della-Francesca-type dwarf who pulls back the curtains in
The Room
of 1954 (…) appears almost as a caricature of Tenniel’s Alice in the first chapter of her adventures (‘Down the Rabbit Hole’) where she draws aside the curtain and discovers the little door leading to the