07/31/2021 2:00
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Updated 07/31/2021 2:00 AM
In a new chapter of his passion for bullfighting, Andrés Calamaro
changed his role as musician to that of photographer
and presented an exhibition on bullfighters, bullfights and situations related to that activity.
Andrés Calamaro's sample, which was called
Devenir Toro
, was exhibited at the Azur gallery in Madrid, it could also be seen virtually in New York and
is available for free
on the ArtPlace platform (https://discover.artplacer.com / exhibitions / 428).
It is a selection of small and medium format black and white photographs that Calamaro took in bullfights in Mexico and Spain, in which
mystery and emotion prevail
, curated by the Argentine critic Rodrigo Cañete based in England.
Image of the exhibition Devenir Toro, by Andrés Calamaro.
Diego Silvetti, La México, 2021. Photo Gentileza AC / Galería Azur.
From Madrid, Calamaro spoke with the radio program of the Rock and Pop Yellow Submarine (@ submarinoamarillo.radio), which is broadcast at midnight on Fridays (early Saturday morning, actually, from 0 to 2 in the morning), and He told about this other facet of his artistic activity, although he also knew
how to relate it to music
.
It should be remembered that he has just won a Gardel Award for the best duet for the performance of
Bohemio
, together with Julio Iglesias.
This is an excerpt from the conversation he had with the driver of the Yellow Submarine, Walter Domínguez.
Looking for relationships
Show Devenir Toro, by Andrés Calamaro.
Take a walk at noon.
Photo Courtesy AC / Azur Gallery
-What relationship do you find between music and bullfighting?
-The relationship exists, not only because there is a specific musical genre, such as the bullfighting double steps, but also as a subtle matter:
bullfighting and flamenco are practically the same
. The common point is the heart and the beat, the panache, the elegance, the way of feeling things and the interpretation. It is a deep metaphysical coincidence, which gives meaning to human culture. The interpretation in body and soul.
Unlike painting (it must be remembered that the paintings in the Prado Museum have been painted three hundred years ago), music, like bullfighting,
is art in motion
, happening right now, beyond a bullfight being filmed , comment, study, write in books, analyze.
The same thing happens with the cinema unlike the theater and with the records, unlike the live music.
Andrés Calamaro showed himself in his role as a photographer of one of his great passions, bullfighting.
-Why did you decide to do a show like Devenir Toro?
-Having taken photos with a motive, after developing a vital report and dedicated several years to the knowledge of a subject, I did it from
a metaphorical rather than aesthetic appreciation
. Something similar to what we do processing music or any other culture of cultural, popular or exquisite appreciation. In the case of photos in an art gallery, it is different from preparing a photo book. In bullfighting, the selection responds to what the bull itself is, what bullfighting is, and of course the details that make a good photo, technically or visually.
The curatorship of Rodrigo Cañete was key to exhibiting, finding a great pretext to make an art exhibition with photographs.
Of course, plastic art is not just oil paintings and sculptures and since the sixties there have been other types and heterodox ways of presenting plastic art.
And photography is one.
Rodrigo was very delicate, very fine, erudite and exquisite in the curatorial text, where he explains the field, the bull in art and then a little why it is me and what is the crux of the matter, having been rockers after Malvinas in the '80s.
A metaphor for metaphors, high-profile artistic curatorship, plastic in this case, and that made sense of being
an exhibition and that it is more than twenty or thirty photos that are good
.
Show Devenir Toro, by Andrés Calamaro.
David Mora, Seville 2021. Photo Courtesy AC /
Art without knowing
-What impact did the show have?
-
The repercussion of an art exhibition is much less
than that of other unimportant things, nonsense that we see on TV, ridiculous social, political and cultural concerts for the masses, unimportant discussions, closed to debate.
The normal repercussion of an art exhibition is elitist.
I do not know if there are cultural supplements that understand, analyze, or even advertise the exhibitions of paintings outside of a field that is not ours either.
But
Devenir Toro
coincided with the month of May, the Santoral de San Isidro, something like the homeland date of Madrid, in addition to May 2 - a historical, Napoleonic date.
May 15 is a very bullfighting date in Madrid.
This year there was no San Isidro fair in Las Ventas, the monumental bullfighting event, but there was an interesting bull and bullfighting fair in the Vista Alegre Palace, which is a covered plaza in the Carabanchel neighborhood.
And well, the specific media came, what exists on bullfighting radio and television.
And there were also top-class ranchers and master bullfighters such as Alejandro Talavanté and Paco Ureña, winners of San Isidro.
Show Devenir Toro, by Andrés Calamaro.
Morante de la Puebla.
Photo courtesy AC / Azur Gallery
-The bullfighting also generates a strong rejection in a sector of the population. Were there many who let you know that they did not agree with your passion or with your sample?
-All the time there are people who are letting us know what they don't like, what offends them, what hurts them, what hurts them.
Criticism as an ally of the complaint was installed like an epidemic
.
Like another epidemic that greatly affects the health of culture.
People get what they don't like, what they reject, what they hate or hate.
And in the process,
many people forgot to go to the cinema to see movies
, to open a book to read, to listen to a complete album, that there is debate and dissent of opinions ... Opinion is already part of a show vulgar and superficial.
And nothing matters to me in a good way.
Some things matter too much in a frivolous, superficial, naive way, all at the same time, which at the same time make up a kind of ridiculous cultural fanaticism.
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