El óleo El combate entre don Carnaval y doña Cuaresma, de Breughel el Viejo, se encuentra en un museo de Viena y mide poco más de metro y medio de largo. El pozo y los colores más claros del centro de la plaza centran nuestra primera mirada. Después, como si se tratara de busca a Wally, vamos recorriendo los numerosos personajes, fijándonos en los sabrosos detalles que Pedro Breughel (Breda, 1525 – Bruselas, 1569) incluyó en su obra. Los dibujó no tan ingenuamente como podría pensarse, pues el pintor criticaba, nada menos, las circunstancias que rodearon las luchas entre católicos y protestantes que tanto afectaron a los Países Bajos. Breughel esboza aquí los principales trazos de lo que un famoso dramaturgo belga denominaría más tarde Breugheland.
Esta interpretación actual de la mordaz parodia breugheliana de El combate entre don Carnaval y doña Cuaresma, realizada por Dick Jewell [1], nos sitúa frente a un escenario que nos resulta familiar en muchos sentidos. Jewel nos regala un puente gráfico que no sólo permite profundizar en la obra original, sino en la mascarada social que respiramos.
Los amantes de rarezas fotográfícas y filmográficas encontrarán una delikatesse en el Dvd que produjo Dick Jewell sobre las noches locas de un club londinense llamado Kinky Gerlinky, el primero de una serie de extravagantes locales nocturnos en la City como el ya desaparecido Nag Nag Nag (por la canción de la banda Cabaret Votaire) o Puscha, donde la gente anónima acudía para mezclarse con los famosos.
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[1] Dick Jewell graduated from the Royal College of Art (Printmaking MA) in 1978 and has gone on to develop an extraordinary career as an artist/printmaker and filmmaker. His studio practice utilises film, video, and photography and also explores photographic and digital anthologies via photomontage and animation. His working practice is diverse, he has published two books and his films have screened extensively within both film festivals and art galleries, while he still continues to work commercially as a cameraman within both the fashion and music industries. Dick has special interest and responsibility for the digital, photographic and moving-image media.
Biography
Dick Jewell exhibited at Waddington Galleries and New Contemporaries while still at the RCA. In 1979 he published Found Photos and participated in Young British Photographers, New York, and Lives, Hayward Gallery, London. His first solo exhibition at Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff in 1980 was followed by group shows including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the ‘Summer Show’ at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
In the 1980s he ran a record label, and designed and released albums for artists including Gregory Isaacs and Prince Far I. He has also directed music promos for artists including Neneh Cherry and Massive Attack. Since then he has directed and made over 50 documentary films and videos, primarily on the subjects of artists, dance and club culture.
These films of the 1980s and early ’90s have shown extensively not only at film festivals around the world but also more recently at art galleries including the Venice Biennale, Tate Liverpool, MOMA Sydney, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the ICA. His work is represented in public collections, including the Stedelijk Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum; Arts Council of Great Britain; Hayward Gallery Froebel Institute; Newport Museum; Whitworth Art Gallery; Leeds Art Gallery; Camden Libraries; Dudley Museum.
In the 1990s Dick Jewell’s documentaries continued with subjects as diverse as The Bushmen of the Kalahari and Capouera in NE Brazil, and the publication of Hysteric Glamour, 2001. Over the last 10 years, with the continued development of digital technology, Dick has been able to concentrate on his personal work within his studio practice is currently represented by Rachmaninoffs, London.
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