{"id":11961,"date":"2014-05-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2014\/05\/24\/el-hombre-que-no-quiso-elegir\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T18:46:29","slug":"el-hombre-que-no-quiso-elegir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/el-hombre-que-no-quiso-elegir\/","title":{"rendered":"El hombre que no quiso elegir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8895\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Inject-2.jpg\" alt=\"Inject-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Inject-2.jpg 670w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Inject-2-595x396.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><br \/>\nHerman Kolgen nunca pudo elegir. As\u00ed que ahora, sobre la tarima del Kings Place en Londres, adonde ha venido invitado por Alpha-ville a ofrecer un <em>performance<\/em> de dos de sus obras, no acierta a contestar. \u00bfC\u00f3mo ha sido el proceso de creaci\u00f3n de Dust e Inject? \u00bfQu\u00e9 es primero, la im\u00e1gen o la m\u00fasica? &#8220;Primero est\u00e1 la idea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>De ni\u00f1o dibujaba compulsivamente, y d\u00eda s\u00ed y d\u00eda tambi\u00e9n, aporreaba con ganas un montaje hecho con cazuelas, con la libertad que da ser hijo en una familia de cuatro ni\u00f1os. Digamos que su infancia fue su territorio experimental, aunque nunca haya abandonado el laboratorio. A los diecis\u00e9is hab\u00eda integrado un sintetizador a su bater\u00eda, y despu\u00e9s le a\u00f1adir\u00eda un vibr\u00e1fono \u2014ese paso, asegura, ha marcado su estilo\u2014. Para los dieciocho, cuando comenz\u00f3 su formaci\u00f3n de arquitecto, y sin abandonar la percusi\u00f3n, pintaba y expon\u00eda. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Est\u00e1 bien que seas artista&#8221;, le dijo su padre, &#8220;aunque si vas a ser bueno, debes optar por una disciplina&#8221;. Herman Kolgen, sin embargo, nunca pudo elegir. <\/p>\n<p>En esas andaba cuando compr\u00f3 su primer ordenador. &#8220;Mi forma de pensar y toda mi vida cambi\u00f3&#8221;, exclama, exagerando pero en el fondo sin exagerar. Con aquella tecnolog\u00eda por fin vio todo encajar. Ya no ten\u00eda que escoger. Pod\u00eda recorrer la senda del sonido sin sacrificar el arte visual, y viceversa.<\/p>\n<p>Y es ah\u00ed cuando empez\u00f3 a inventar. Porque Herman Kolgen, que no quer\u00eda elegir, tuvo que crear su propio lenguaje. Un idioma que no distingue audio e imagen, en el que ambos son una sola materia. &#8220;Concibo el sonido y la imagen de la misma manera&#8221;, explica. &#8220;Para obtener un material homog\u00e9neo que vaya a ser absorbido por la audiencia a un nivel emocional&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Y es que no hay otra manera de absorber sus obras. En la pieza titulada <em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/90520728\">Inject<\/a><\/em>, Yso, un chico camboyano de Montreal, se sumerge desnudo y con un solo zapato en una cisterna \u2014seis d\u00edas estuvo bajo el agua\u2014; uno se olvida de que existen dos sistemas diferenciados, dos canales de percepci\u00f3n, y s\u00f3lo siente la asfixia, la desorientaci\u00f3n, la p\u00e9rdida de contacto con la realidad. Sonido e imagen son en manos del artista material din\u00e1mico, el\u00e1stico, palpable, con densidad, porosidad; materia que puede modificarse en el espacio-tiempo. <\/p>\n<p>Kolgen es hoy conocido y reconocido en su pa\u00eds (naci\u00f3, vive y trabaja en Montreal, Canad\u00e1) y a nivel internacional. Muchas veces premiado, un artista multidisciplinar, un &#8220;escultor <em>audiocin\u00e9tico<\/em>&#8221; \u2014sea lo que sea lo que signifique esa etiqueta\u2014 cuyas obras toman la forma de instalaciones, pel\u00edculas, performances o audioesculturas. Es, ante todo, un hombre que no  pudo ni quiso elegir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Kolgen nunca pudo elegir. 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