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Lucy van Kuhl - Cleverly Wrapped

Thu, 18 Feb 2027 · 20:00

Villa Meixner, Brühl, Germany

25.2 €

Lucy van Kuhl - Cleverly Wrapped — Villa Meixner, Brühl

We live in an age where packaging often seems more important than content: a plain chocolate bar becomes an exclusive taste event through advertising, the caretaker gets the fancy title of facility manager instead of a pay rise, and love no longer arrives via Cupid's random arrow - it comes tailored and algorithm-driven, through Tinder and Parship.

German tourist Heinz Günter heads to France, puts on a striped shirt and a beret, and then wonders why - baguette under each arm and all - nobody takes him for a Jean Pierre. Packaging, it turns out, isn't everything.

In her fifth programme, Lucy van Kuhl wraps her own observations with equal skill: absurd reflections are draped in gentle piano melodies, tiny marginal details are examined through a large poetic magnifying glass, and the gloom of a care home is suddenly transformed - wrapped in a coat of imagination - into a rousing party for the over-80s.

Delicate melancholy collides with raucous nonsense, classical piano with boogie woogie. If you think those things can't go together, think again: Lucy's overflowing imagination is the bright ribbon that ties it all together with apparent ease. Very cleverly wrapped.

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