jaime Rguez
Febrero/February 2012

Sala de Exposiciones del Ayto. de Archidona, Málaga

Plaza Ochavada, 1 Archidona 29300 Málaga

"Transit"

> > una exposición de music-videoArte en la que se presentan once piezas audiovisuales con el mismo planteamiento: la colaboración transdisciplinar de dos creativos en cada una: un creativo que compone la parte sonora-musical y un creativo visual o videoartista que interviene a partir de la pieza sonora. El resultado es un proceso de interrelación creativa entre ambos profesionales para crear una única pieza de carácter híbrido en su autoría.

En "transit", jaime Rguez trabaja todo el proceso de edición visual utilizando todo tipo de grabaciones visuales: de motu propio, de campo y de imágenes o videos bajados de youtube u otros portales que ofrece internet, y que luego desmaterializa, las descontextualiza y las reinterpreta para crear una nueva pieza audiovisual que funcione con el concepto y el planteamiento del que parte el creativo sonoro. En esta ocasión, "transit" se podría definir justamente como un tránsito entre diferentes espacios culturales, muy distantes geográficamente; pero conectados muy de cerca por las redes sociales que se organizan a través de la red. Así, cada uno de los compositores pertenecen a países diferentes y el creativo visual funciona como centro catalizador de un libre intercambio cultural.


A sound-videoArt exhibition where eleven audiovisual pieces are presented. They all have in common the same approach: The interdisciplinary collaboration of two creatives in each one: One creative that composes the sound part and a visual creative o video artist that works from the sound piece. The result is a process of creative interrelation between both professionals in order to create a unique piece that has a hybrid character in its authorship.
In “transit” Jaime Rguez makes all the visual edition process using every kind of visual recordings: his own, field recordings and images or videos that have been downloaded from Youtube or other Internet sites. They are later dematerialized, decontextualized and reinterpreted to make a new audiovisual piece to match the concept and the approach the sound creative has started from.
On this particular occasion, “transit” could be exactly defined as a transit between different cultural spaces, geographically remote to each other but connected by social networks. In this way, each composer comes from a different country and the visual creative is the driving force of a free cultural interchange.

english translation by ángel cotallo ©2011
comisario de la exposición: Fco. Javier Toro

music-videoArt (jaime rguez Y Manuel Rubilar)

Satyricon
sound of Vuijiken, composed by Manuel Rubilar V. (Knwell) / Casa de Orates Chile ©2011
visuals edited by jaime rguez ©2011


music-videoArt (jaime rguez Y M.NOMIZED)

Saturated
is a track of Death at the End of Lines - sound composed by M. NOMIZED France ©2011
visuals edited by jaime Rguez ©2011
Music composed and played by M.Nomized. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Fraction Studio


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & Sylphides)

"etrange session"
music composed by Sylphides ©2011
visuals edited by jaime Rguez ©2011
sylphides are patrick Masson (musique) & Lemoine Laurence (paroles et chant), ath, Belgium


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & KraftiM)

TULO
Music composed by KraftiM, FraxurY ©2008
Visuals edited by jaime Rguez ©2011
Tulo includes KraftiM’s own synthesizer based percussion bringing in more structure. Nijmegen, Netherlands


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & Arizono Kazuhiro)

"Untitled"
music composed by Arizono Kazuhiro, 大阪市 / Japan ©2011
visuals edited by jaime Rguez ©2011


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & Jay Umphres)

Stars Over Water
music sound by Jay Umphres, geronimodeleon ©2011
visuals edition by Jaime Rguez ©2011
Joanne Gabriel: Voice and Guitar / geronimodeleon: Production, treatments - S.Diego, Calfornia, USA


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & NOS project)

frOMy LittLE tOWn
sound music by NOS Project ©2011
visuals edited by jaime Rguez ©2011
NOS Project's latest album is called "from my little town" and consists of 8 pieces without titles, made up by combining natural, "found sounds" with electronics. Greece.


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & Cezary Gapik)

#0401
Music composed by Cezary Gapik ©2006
Visuals edited by Jaime Rguez ©2011
Cezary Gapik / CEZAR, Częstochowa, Poland


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & Mind Revolution)

TRANSIT
Sound composed by Mind Revolution / Asturias, Spain ©2011
Visuals edited by Jaime Rguez ©2011
some images by Vaslav Nijinsky (short records, 1909-12)

Directors Lounge 2012 Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & Jurica Jelic)

Jesen (Fall)
music composed by Jurica Jelic / Knin, Croatia ©2011
visuals edited by jaime Rguez ©2011


music-videoArt (jaime rguez & Sean D. Cooper Marquardt)

'She Lives on Light'
music composed by Sean D. Cooper Marquardt / Berlin, Germany ©2011
visuals edited by jaime Rguez ©2011

 

Cuando Jaime Rodríguez (Oviedo, 1968) decidió plasmar su investigación teórico-plástica en el videoarte seguro que no esperaba obtener los resultados finales que ahora podemos ver.

En principio, el videoarte se trata aún de una forma de expresión plástica en un temprano proceso de asimilación y experimentación, y hasta ahora solía trabajar un mismo artista tanto la imagen como el sonido. Desde Nam June Paik hasta hoy, cada videoartista probaba nuevas posibilidades con este medio, siendo al final el resultado unas piezas muy personales y propias de cada uno, apenas extrapolables al resto y suponiendo una dificultad extra a la hora de hacer historia del arte del videoarte, valga la redundancia.

 

Sin embargo, las piezas realizadas por Jaime Rodríguez aun teniendo un componente muy personal (algo que ocurre con cualquier creativo y que se entiende especialmente si se conoce la personalidad del artista) también aportan algo muy novedoso al desarrollo del videoarte: la colaboración y la sinergia.

Cada pieza visual creada por Jaime se ha realizado ex profeso para una pieza sonora de un artista, cada uno de un origen distinto: Polonia, Japón, Holanda, Bélgica…

Así podemos observar que cada obra audiovisual es al mismo tiempo similar a la anterior pero a la vez, distinta. Cada sonido diferente genera un nuevo acompañamiento visual. No hay dos piezas iguales.

Es interesante señalar también que en el videoarte clásico, como se entiende aún en la actualidad, una de las dos partes destacaba sobre la otra: en este caso, tal y como el propio Jaime Rodríguez recalca siempre, las dos partes son igualmente importantes, tanto lo visual como lo sonoro, dándole él mismo la denominación de sound-videoArt, en un intento de equiparar ambas piezas.

En lo visual destaca el toque que Jaime Rodríguez deja en sus obras: como artista multidisciplinar, que ha trabajado la pintura y el grabado, en los vídeos se observan distintas formas que van desde lo abstracto hasta lo figurativo, siendo principalmente esto último algo que trabaja con especial atención en sus últimas obras con otros soportes.

El resultado conjugado de figuración-abstracción y las piezas sonoras generan un conjunto de videocreaciones que rozan el expresionismo (yo diría que casi bruto), con un sentido profundo y sentimental, que produce sensaciones dispares, tanto de comodidad y placidez como de rechazo.

Lo cierto es que este interesante planteamiento de Jaime Rodríguez de trabajar a través de los nuevos medios de comunicación, especialmente la red con otros artistas internacionales supone un paso más en la historiarización del videoarte: el net art como nuevo medio para la creación y unas piezas sonoras y visuales como un tándem análogo y uniforme.

semíramis gonzález ©2011
http://semiramisenbabilonia.blogspot.com/


When Jaime Rodriguez (Oviedo, 1968) decided to capture his theoretical-plastic investigation on video art, it is sure that he did not expect to achieve the final results that we can see now. Nowadays, video art is still considered to be a way of plastic expression in an early process of assimilation and experimentation and, up to now, the same artist used to work with both the picture and the sound. Since Nam June Paik until today, each video artist has tried new possibilities with this support, being the final result some very personal and characteristic pieces that were hardly extrapolated to the rest, which supposed an extra difficulty in the moment of making History of Art from video art.

 

However, although the pieces made by Jaime Rodríguez still have a strong personal component (something that happens with any creative and that is specially understood when the artist personality is known), they contribute to the development of video art with some very new aspects: collaboration and synergy. Every visual piece created by Jaime has been specially made for a sound piece by a specific artist and every one of the artists comes from a different place: Poland, Japan, Holland, Belgium… .In this way, we can see that each audiovisual work is, at the same time, similar but different to the previous one. Every different sound generates a new visual accompaniment. There are no two pieces alike.

It is also interesting to point out that in classic video art, as it is generally understood, one aspect stands out beyond the other. In this case, as Jaime Rodriguez himself always emphasizes, both aspects (the visual and the sound) are at the same level of importance and he names this as sound-video-art in his attempt to put them at the same level.

In the visual aspect, we can see the personal touch that Jaime Rodríguez leaves in his works: as a multidisciplinary artist that has worked in painting and engraving, his videos show different shapes ranging from the abstract to the figurative, being the latter something that he pays special attention to in his latest work with other media.

The resulting combination of abstraction-figuration and the sound generates a set of videos that are very close to expressionism (I would say almost pure) with a profound and sentimental sense that produces different sensations of comfort and tranquillity as well as rejection.

The truth is that this interesting approach that Jaime Rodríguez makes of working with other international artists through the new media, especially the net, is another step in the historization of video art: The Net Art as a new means for creation and the sound and visual works as an analogous and uniform tandem.

("Transit" english version) semíramis gonzález ©2011
http://semiramisenbabilonia.blogspot.com/