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1 size_articulos_ids: 7 Current ID: 81423 Current pos: 1 Articulo anterior: Entre el lenguaje y la percepción Articulo siguiente: Jochen Gerz prevID: 81422 nextID: 81424
Victor Burgin
Las mujeres del cuadro de Sargent desfilan en procesión en un marco semicircular, vertiendo incesantemente agua en un recipiente perforado de donde se escapa de forma perpetua. En la película de
Berkeley, circulan en la calidoscópica imagen de una mujer que se convierte en muchas.
La mujer del centro se ha visto atrapada en el momento de verter. A su derecha, sus hermanas acarrean sus jarras vacías; a su izquierda, otras esperan su turno para verter. Se parecen tanto unas a otras que se diría la misma mujer en momentos sucesivos del tiempo.
Berkeley organizó audiciones de cientos de mujeres hasta encontrar tres que se insertaran “como perlas” en su línea de bailarinas, midiendo a cada una con una retícula en la que cada cuerpo debía inscribirse a la perfección. Con precisión vitrubiana, los hombres inscribían a sus mujeres en composiciones de grises. Sargent añade franjas de azul y amarillo.
SHE WAS RAISED BY HER FATHER, A DISTANT MAN, FOREVER LOST IN HIS WORK. <strongVictor Burgin.</strong
IN CHILDHOOD SHE FOUND COMPANIONSHIP WITH A NEIGHBOUR’S BOY OF HER OWN AGE. YEARS LATER, NOW ADULT, SHE ENCOUNTERED HIM AGAIN, BY CHANCE; HE SHOWED NO SIGN OF HAVING RECOGNISED HER, WHICH PLUNGED HER INTO DESPAIR.
ALONE IN THE RUINED STREETS HE WAS STARTLED BY THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF THE FIGURE OF A WOMAN MOVING WITH GRADIVA’S UNMISTAKEABLE GAIT.
IN A DREAM OF THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII HE BELIEVED HE SAW GRADIVA, AS IF TURNING TO MARBLE. HE RESOLVED TO TRAVEL TO POMPEII IN THE HOPE OF FINDING SOME TRACE OF THE LONG-BURIED GIRL.
THE RELIEF REPRESENTED A YOUNG WOMAN, STEPPING FORWARD. ONE FOOT RESTED SQUARELY ON THE GROUND, THE OTHER TOUCHED THE GROUND ONLY WITH THE TIPS OF THE TOES. THIS POSTURE CAME TO HAUNT HIS THOUGHTS; HE GAVE THE GIRL THE NAME ‘GRADIVA’ – ‘SHE WHO STEPS ALONG’.
IT WAS WHILE SHE WAS VISITING THE RUINS OF POMPEII THAT SHE BECAME AWARE OF THE FIGURE OF A MAN WATCHING HER.
SHE COULD TAKE NO INTEREST IN ANY SUITOR. SHE RESIGNED HERSELF TO THE COMPANIONSHIP OF HER FATHER, ACCOMPANYING HIM ON HIS TRIPS ABROAD.
La educó su padre, un hombre distante, siempre abstraído en su trabajo.