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Item: The Lustful Turk

PATRIZIO DI MASSIMO

2013

Painting, 3 x (200 x 270 cm).
Materials: oil, canvas

Collection: Courtesy of T293, Naples/Rome.

THE LUSTFUL TURK (HABERDASHERY), 2013

THE LUSTFUL TURK (BANG BANG), 2013

THE LUSTFUL TURK (SALON), 2013

THE LUSTFUL TURK (WALLPAPER), 2014

The various paintings, drawings and objects of the series The Lustful Turk are all based on an English erotic novel from 1828 that is a well-known example of Orientalism, Europe’s proactive ‘othering’ of the people it was about to colonise. Three large paintings are presented here, on a wallpaper displaying four visual emblems that Di Massimo developed to depict the somewhat repetitive physical activities described in the novel. Like the wallpaper, The Lustful Turk (Haberdashery) suggests that cushions and tassels and candles and clouds might stand in for certain body parts, whereas The Lustful Turk (Bang Bang) introduces African sculptures as an additional ‘exotic’ layer and The Lustful Turk (Salon) offers a retrospective view of some previous paintings in this series. (AK)

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