Exposicion j. carrero sala 2 \"la vida danza\"

COIN HOUSE MUSEUM

Dance, dance , BLESSED

In 1969 , Sydney Pollack directed a film ( the most nominated film history ) which was based on the book of Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Do not They ? ( Did not they shoot horses ? ... ) , Which was translated into Spanish under the title Dance, Dance, Damn , but also known in Spanish as The Endless Dance or Dance of Illusions . In it, always leading the young Jane Fonda , whom I accompanied in the cast actor Michael Sarrazin , recreates Pollack will allow this verb , although not the most appropriate to speak of the immense drama of the Great American Depression
the 30s ... the atmosphere of misery and hopelessness of an era in which some people become a force in marathon dancers, with the only fi n to get the prize of $ 1,500 to enable them to eat and sleep at least a hot few nights, while a(although empty and values ​​) provides fun and lively crowd morbid spectacle of those who suffer and humiliated in public for mere survival.

I am quite sure that those who gave the title to this famous film knew neither Enrique Jiménez Carrero and his work. Because you did , they would have seen that dance ( whatever its artistic version , even the most pessimistic) never admits denigrating views but always magical and sublime .

Enrique Jiménez Carrero has been a lifelong love of dance. And be, what has so often reflected in his paintings , full of color and sensitivity. And not just in those where dance manifests clear and palpable imagery he painted , as in these pictures of the Life series Dance, but in many others, in which hands and bodies dance and move cadence ( only need to close your eyes a bit to see it ) to the sound ofInvisible music without us wanting it, adorns our moods, and submit our minds and spirit.

The red color that washes today Jiménez Carrero funds abandon his painting allows us to melancholy , a mild combination of emotions and feelings , but believable from that combined great ( reserved for those touched by the hand of the gods) of dance with paint.

David Perez

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