MIGUEL CHICHARRO

                                                The Heteronymous

During the spiritualist sessions of the 19th Century, when cinema was dawning, and by use of rudimentary photographic projection techniques, the spirits of the dead materialised over the thick smoke columns emerging from a censer. In this way, the heteronymous materialise the ghosts of the unconscious, manifesting as real artists with a biography and their own work.

Miguel Chicharro elaborates an introspective discourse with the intention of revealing…the inexpressible. Making visible the invisible. The alienation of the self and its separation into characters playing as if they were actors at the theatre of memory.

Having discovered his heteronomy since childhood, he will not integrate it consciously in his works until 1995. That is when he begins to use computers to elaborate a file library and use them as the main instruments for his artistic production.

The heteronymous are created to order this artistic production into differentiated file sections. Memories are communicated by subtle movements, acting as movable mirrors which on doing so, reflect and interact among themselves. A combinatorial game, where each one recognises himself by discovering the other. The limits are broken in a circular vertigo.

The production is not so much an object as an artistic subject. Several virtual artists, elaborate a virtual work, in a virtual space. If impressionism searched for the truth in a  fleeting instant of nature, and expressionism tried to capture a mood in the artist, the heteronymous develop and extreme expressionism, where the sum of the masks reveal the truth of art.

                                                  BIOGRAPHIC DATA

A painter and Set Designer, he is born in Madrid in 1952. While studying at the Architecture School of the Madrid Complutense University, he collaborates in the set up of several plays of independent theatre groups. With his paintings, he participates in numerous exhibits, both in Spain and abroad. Since the 70’s his professional activity develops as an Art Director, within motion picture productions, working in commercials, feature films and fiction series for Television. In the 90’s  he sets up his own Company for set constructions and widens his professional field to designing and the making of cultural events such as the commemorative exhibit “100 Years of Commercial Aviaton in Spain” for the Ministry of Public Works, or the reproduction of the prehistoric caves of Altamira for the Cantabria pavilion, at the Seville Universal Expo of 1992. In the theatre field, he has designed scenic spaces for dance shows such as “La Petenera” by Emilio Hernández at the roman ruins of Italica or multimedia setups such as “El Censor” by Anthony Nielsen, shown in Barcelona at the Villarroel Theatre in 2004.

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