Valencia Fashion Week

Antonio Posadas

COLLECTION REDOBLE DE TAMBOR

They were born under a tent, grew travelling in a caravan, sacrificed his life to make public laugh. They were nomadic; everything they had was their clothes of bright colors and the shelter of the circus. Redoble de Tambor “wants to reflect two opposite aspects of the life circus’ artists, analyzed across the painting of Paul Picasso and Marc Chagall.

Picasso after representing in his blue period the loneliness of the children, the misery of poor people or beggars, contributes a new lyricism and light to his pictures in the change to the called pink period, treating the poverty and the life hardness of circus’ artists and tumblers. Landscapes in which it can be seen in an isolated way the well-drawn and stylized figures of puppeteers, marginal characters whose solitary life impressed Picasso.

The color and the positivism of the circus in Chagall form a counterpoint to Picasso's serene character.

In Marc Chagall the circus represents a part of his oneiric universe, in which it is mixed past and the present time. Of one side the memory of the ambulant world of tumblers that flew through Russia’s land in their childhood, a fascinating world for him, in which people and animals reconciled being artists equally. And later in his life in Paris, where he went to the winter circus with the publisher and art dealer Vollard, Picasso’s gallery owner during the pink period, who asks him to do a great book that illustrates the magic universe of the circus.

In the shape of a gouaches and oils of excellent wealth, some men and women appear and with their sequined suits they touch they sky when going from one trapeze to the other, jugglers together with riders who ride in equilibrium superb horses, funambulists next to acrobats or very made up clowns who shine with their shiny suits. All of them appear in a track in which they can see the amazed looks of the spectators.

The minimalist austerity opposite to wealth, Picasso's poverty and hardness together with Chagall's brilliant and cheerful color positivism.

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