El Tímpano Oculto / The hidden tympanums
Instalación sonora de Edgar Moreno
Museo Nacional de Arte. La Paz Bolivia, 2016
Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional, Santa Cruz Bolivia, 2016
Andreas Rost (Curador)
Edgar Moreno es fotógrafo, músico, compositor, mecánico, nadador, profesor – resumido en pocas palabras: es un poeta.
Después de la muerte de la figura del autor, después de la transformación del mundo y de la vida en puras columnas de números, después de la utilización de avatares en la comunicación y la conversión de la naturaleza en patentes, a la poesía le queda reservado revitalizar la emocionalidad del ser humano y crear solidaridad social reforzando la empatía. El artista Edgar Moreno crea con su instalación, usando una maleta, - una maleta que ya sirvió a un emigrante alemán en su fuga – un caos que confunde a los sentidos. Objetos de la vida cotidiana, llenos de pegatinas que producen sonidos, imágenes movidas y un número irritante de símbolos crean un cuadro indicador y desbordante de significados.
Lo poético de la instalación “El Tímpano Oculto” es la avalancha de significados que no permiten ser reducidos a la información – un lujo de detalles que no son canjeables y que producen un nuevo espacio de comprensión de la obra de arte. El lujo poético es el único que acepta este poeta de izquierda. Moreno encuentra algunos símbolos de la perduración del “Vivir Bien” en el pasado y presente. Con un guiño de ojo apunta elementos del “Vivir Bien”, se pueden encontrar hasta en la “Enseñanza sobre la Naturaleza” de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Edgar Moreno es espontáneo, no conoce jerarquías y toma lo que puede recibir. Al altavoz, un instrumento de la estratégica bélica desde el “Volksempfänger” (receptor del pueblo) de Hitler y los mensajes de banda magnética de Osama bin Laden, lo cambia para que se convierta en un tímpano del amor por el “Vivir Bien”. “El arte no es el caos”, escriben Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari en “Qué es filosofía?” (Qu´est-ce que la philosophie?) “pero es una composición a partir del caos”.
Edgar Moreno, The hidden tympanums, a sonorous installation
Text by Andreas Rost (Curator)
Edgar Moreno is a photographer, musician, composer, mechanic, swimmer, teacher - in short: a poet.
After the death of the figure of the author, after the transformation of the world and life into pure columns of numbers, after the use of avatars in communication and the conversion of nature into patents, poetry is then reserved to revitalize the emotionality of the human being and to create social solidarity by reinforcing empathy. Edgar Moreno, the artist, creates with his installation, using a suitcase that already served a German emigrant on his escape - a chaos that confuses the senses. Objects of everyday life, filled with stickers that produce sounds, moved images and an irritating number of symbols, create an indicator picture overflow with meanings.
What is poetic about the installation “El Tímpano Oculto” is the avalanche of meanings that cannot be reduced to information – The poetic luxury is a unique condition accepted by this lefty artist who finds some symbols about the long-lasting of the Well Living in past and in present Poetic luxury is the only condition that this leftist poet accepts. Moreno finds some symbols of the permanence of "Vivir Bien" in the past and present. With a wink of the eye he points out elements of “Living Well”, they can even be found in the “Teaching on Nature” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Edgar Moreno is spontaneous, does not know hierarchies and takes what he can receive. The loudspeaker, an instrument of war strategy since Hitler's "Volksempfänger" (people's receiver) and Osama bin Laden's magnetic stripe messages, Moreno changes it to become them into an Eardrum of love for "Living Well." "Art is not chaos", write Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in "What is philosophy?" (Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?) "But it is a composition based on chaos."
Una misma trama aparece en un mito, en un cuento, en una leyenda. Cambia su sentido si se presenta como verdadera o ficticia. Como fotógrafo, documentalista, músico y compositor quiero abordar los mitos y sus consecuencias en mi tiempo presente; vivirlos como base de estructuras sociales y acciones que forman parte del sistema de creencias de una comunidad que considera sus decírseos como historias verdaderas, elaborando razones para coexistir con ellos.
Similar plots appear in myths, in a tales, in a legend, changing its meaning if it is presented either as true or fictitious. As a documentarist photographer and musician I want to address myths and their consequences in my present time by living myth as the basis of social structures and actions that are part of the belief system of a community that considers it’s telling as true stories, elaborating reasons to coexist with them.
A surviving suitcase from a second war bombing in the city of Cologne, Germany, serves as a support for the different symbolic aspects of my work, The Hidden Tympanum. Inside it, a bowl denotes the melting pot of all cultures, covered with buckskin and a bowler hat, used by Quechua and Aymara women in the Andean highlands. The bowl is jealously guarded by a statue of three profane Venezuelan saints, with healing properties: the “doctor José Gregorio Hernández”, the healer of the poor people who appears to the hopeless in dreams in order to heal them. Pedro Camejo, El Negro Primero or the emancipated black warrior; and Guaicaipuro; the brave indian chief, maximum symbol of the Caribbean indigenous´ resistance.
As served on a silver platter, a photograph taken from a diorama depicts a train traveling to Machu Picchu- showing the most comfortable and effective way of acquiring tickets to reach the lost citadel of the Incas. The guarura or sonorous snail symbolizes the Hidden Eardrum and the sound of the sea trapped inside it. On one side of the suitcase there is a picture of a giant frog playing guitar under a bridge, playing the tunes of the Venezuelan salsa band Quinto Aguacate, which sound from the suitcase through two disproportionate loud speakers; A long cable runs from these speakers to a pole-mounted megaphone, where the Wiphala flag of the Andean indigenous confederation, flies with a giant Titicaca frog emblazoned on it. The speaker roars with music, an invitation to enter the exhibition hall in search of the witchdoctor suitcase.
The suitcase lid is imprinted with a photograph of five Yanomami shamans during an ecstatic dance. They are genetically primordial humans. Considering themselves as children of the moon, yanomamis travel to the moon daily in search of healing for their fellow human beings and for the whole of humanity.
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