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Summer Projects

Man Ray. Black and white

Alvaro Rojas. Empty

post Lately the planned purchase own life, metamorphose into other crossing to walk the path. It is always rewarding young people with projects and also reward them for it, so when Alvaro Rojas asked me a text for Injuve could not resist.

The white face of the Queen of Montparnasse horizontally intersects the vertical black African mask, checkerboard split, empty, quiet photography of Man Ray.

Empty Faces of , horizontal and white, because they seem more concerned about the African mask. They face no shadow, but which has taken its name.
are earth are stone melt into the topsoil, is inseparable from nature, are rocky, impenetrable. The core is modeled on pangea with the land. breath escapes them by the eyes. The heartbeat of mother earth, resound in-lipped as pitchers. Faces are fallen ruins of a lost civilization. And like ancient statues modeled eye glass paste, are what make them an icon that has breathed life and given a name, but must complete without the absent. Median

two years between the series and Empty Roads monuments. Not seem to maintain unity. Two different genres: portrait, landscape. Two different light: dark baroque, renaissance clear light. Knowing the biography of Alvaro Rojas , we found that both are parts of a round trip, an estrangement from his country, which lets you see the scars on the skin of people and beloved landscape, making away with a sea through which it moves away and reveals the world of that part and you discover that the world is wide and removed. Civil engineering is a whip to the ground, a black arrow that passes through the landscape, the Pan-American and faces that make your travel memories are registered as national monuments. The giant heads are killed, as the colossal head of Constantine in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museums , the bridge structures are vertebrae, which shape the body of his country as if it were a giant.

is a road-movie style experimental work of Chip Lord or Sophie Calle - Motorist, No Sex Last Night - traveled by the documental formalities of marriage Becher and where the protagonist is the car, even the road, only the night, the open wound, the monumental route trying to grasp an entire continent.

The project In first grade (2008) to be a work of gender, seems even more distant from the former, but is also designed in such a world as an archipelago, interconnected and isolated. The images alter the cultural and social stereotypes of power and submission. Every 18 seconds a woman is battered somewhere. The news of violence against women are the same in the old and the new world and its complaint through these actions and these landscapes, which acts like a curtain decorated, delimit, contain, confine them to the figures in the horror tranquil, it is equally valid in both spaces, they share in the distance, the same rate of time.

The three projects are Álvaro Rojas a search, they emerged to light boxes, mental images of a continent, of a society and a few faces.

How To Know Scorpio Doesnt Like You

After seeing the exhibition of the classic American photographer, Helen Levitt , showing his work along the axis of the book Way of Seeing, the Mexican photographs, color slides the 70 and 80 and the last images that reach the 90, where a small slip would miss the documentary In The Street (1945), American independent cinema and poetry in collaboration with writer James Agee and painter Janice Loeb , like it says Jorge Ribalta , curator of the exhibition, is a translation of photographic work by Levitt to the movies .

Helen Levitt. Circa.1940

But Levitt is not whom wanted to talk in this post. Passing to the Teatro de la Zarzuela, leaving the urban Lyric exposure, were in the Lyric Theatre today announced the schedule: School Bowling National Ballet of Spain , and the image of the poster was responding to the rigorous canons of the old-fashioned to be a ballet and English as well.

remembered with a twinge of melancholy that just ten days before he said goodbye in the same space National Dance Company directed by Nacho Duato with a magnificent program. Have been published for the occasion, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the company, a beautiful photo book where it is fundamental.

The book's cover, a photograph of the bust of Duato back, and back, with the portrait of the face, is a small Wink know and understand those who are faithful followers of fanzine digital 10x15. Inside the dance alive by the use of the photographic image. Chapter

From the inside, is a family album, photographic memories of a touring company, which manages to convey the excitement of the dance.
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The choreography is a photographic work Ferdinand Marcos. Photographing the theater is to stop the narrative of the word, and I commented at some point, how difficult that job is photography. Photographing dance is photographing the plastic, the evanescence of the movement, and that is why it is still more difficult to leave a documentary record of what is born of breath with movement.

opens with a photograph White Darkness, work for which he was awarded a Wold Press Photo in 2002, a waterfall of salt that falls over a dancing girl, work that I've ever seen, reminds me The crossing of Bill Viola. This image is packed with great dramatic force strength, perhaps by the hand imploringly.

Ferdinand Marcos. White Darkness. 2002

Bill Viola. The Crossing.1996

El resto de las imágenes que recogen las coreografías son igual de elegantes, contenidas y clásicas. Son respetuosas con las esculturas que los bailarines crean desplazándose por el espacio. Son fieles a las figuras que componen con el instrumento de las fibras de su cuerpo. Este trabajo de Fernando Marcos deja suspendido el aleteo del movimiento sin perder la fuerza y el rigor de la composición, por la poesía.

La premisa de que toda fotografía es una evidencia de la realidad ha quedado anulada, porque las apariencias han sustituido a la realidad. Y nos gusta más el mundo paralelo that is created on a stage, and is encoded by the picture, that is created in virtual reality .... but that is another post.

Fernando Marcos