BIlbao, Mar 13. (askanews) – A huge, apparently empty room, apart from a very small screenand around, very strong, the sound effects of a stadium and its audience. In a few moments we realize that there is a perceptive short circuit and you feel a strange feeling of not knowing exactly where and inside what you are. In reality we are inside the museum Guggenheim of Bilbao, which hosts an exhibition by Paul PfeifferAmerican artist who for decades has been working on the images and their manipulation, going to investigate the construction mechanisms of the same and the way we, the public, use them. In the large white room we hear a sporting event without seeing itjust as we see the museum space without hearing it, everything is uncertain and already it is perceived that the‘Opera, entitled “The Saint” and which has other many elements and narrative levels, is working.
But the strongest and magnetic experience is felt by entering the Guggenheim room dedicated to films, where it is projected Pfeiffer’s video “Red Green Blue“, Dedicated to the life of the stadium during a university football match. The work focuses in particular on the gang and on the generation of sounds that accompany the sporting ritebut the artist’s eye is total, as well as his assembly. For this reason, the feeling, very strong is to be faced with the visual consideration of the texts on sport, and therefore on society and on the power, of a writer like David Foster Wallace. They are images full of intelligence and awareness, like the author’s phrases, but they are also crazy fragments of the global show system, precisely in the sense of Debord, which make up a cultured, but not judgmental analysis of mainstream and popular culture. With the result of not being able to take your eyes off the screen, which offers us an experience that, paraphrasing Wallace again, we could define “a fun thing that I would like to continue doing “.
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