Oliver Laxe – Grrr! nº7 y las chimeneas decidieron escapar AKA Grrr! nº7 and the chimneys decided to run away (2006)

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A personal diary dealing with the frustration that emerges from the contradictions between a personal, internal world and the external one. The work shows how these worlds relate to each other, a simultaneous back and forth between attraction and rejection.

Seventh and last piece in the Grrr! series, small grunts in the face of reality where nostalgia imposes itself on the present. Shot to “explode time into pieces”, the black and white filmed in 16 mm is impregnated with impulses, glazes, cuts and blurs. The noises of the radio are mixed with the chords of an electric guitar which, like the sounds of the city, underline the dramatic sense of the piece.

Personal diary that deals with the frustration that emerges from the contradictions between a personal and internal world and the external one. The work shows how these worlds are related, a simultaneous swing between attraction and rejection.

Seventh and last piece in the Grrr! Series, small grunts in the face of reality where nostalgia prevails over the present. Shot to “explode time into pieces”, black and white filmed in 16mm is infused with impulses, glazes, cuts and blurs. The noises of the radio are mixed with the chords of an electric guitar that, like the pulses of the city, underline the dramatic sense of the piece.

Screams. The amusement ride is mistaken for a crane in the gray city. The silence of the field swayed by the wind makes the image beat. The city is slowly entered through bushes until, literally, mechanical “caterpillars” come to life and violently burrow into the ground. Buildings seen from the safe distance of a train car that enters, with stark impetus, in the urban sadness. Court, a market, the wind shakes everything. The tension grows, between blurs, with the vibrations of an electric guitar. Again the train window, return to silence, a silence that shows the city as if it were a large immobile sculpture. Another chord more, with narrowed eyes Oliver Laxe observes fragments of buildings, hidden behind diverse and suffocating urban geometries. Electrically arpeggiated melancholy until the rain, cleaning the streets, appears with a nostalgic rustle.

Author interested in starting from the cinematographic experience as an active principle for the plastic arts, in this work he navigates between documentary, narration, lyric, after all, personal memory. Oliver Laxe portrays a city without a name, which could well be anyone but which is London, the city that belongs to nobody … Photography without people observes the streets fragmentarily, as intimate documentation compared to the real experience, as walks suffered by the author . Still starting from the present, Laxe composes his evocative memory through essentially ephemeral moments. Overlapping what was and what could have been. Capturing the phantasmagoria of the real. Dream breaks, subtle pleasures that introduce the viewer to a timeless city.

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Grrr! nº7 y las chimeneas decidieron escapar (Oliver Laxe, 2006).avi

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