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Museum of Printing

St. Petersburg

September 23 - October 22, 2006


Fokke & Sukke

cartoons & paintings

Feeling for Sluggishness

by Erik Hagoort


While entering the printing hall of the Printing Museum visitors stepped into a 'jungle' of cartoons: prints of 60 Fokke & Sukke cartoons were fixed to cardboard boxes hanging down from the ceiling by fishthreads. People were invited to roam about, walking from one joke to the other.


Only after some time visitors realized that the walls of the space were full of kitschy paintings depicting both characters as well. Over the years the makers of Fokke & Sukke have collected an impressive amount of paintings,  bought at flea markets and antique fairs. They painted Fokke & Sukke in the landscapes, nude portraits and touristic scenery:


Sukke is seen hanging from a tree in a lovely forest picture, Fokke is running away from an elephant in the painting of an Asiatic rice-field. Both are transporting a piano through a pictoresque Italian village street.....

The creators of Fokke & Sukke:

John Reid (left)

Bastiaan Geleijnse (middle)

Jean-Marc van Tol (right)

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