By José Gandue @Gandour
He has the raw aggression of someone who is confident in his work, his aesthetic, and his ideas., despite being a kind of enfant terrible of the Uruguayan music scene. His work is related to the more electronic elements of rock, and his goal is to unleash the wild excitement of your audience on the dance floor. Is called Jack Doorman, He lives in Montevideo, and his quest for recognition has led him to pose with pigs, flaunt himself on the high seas as a rebellious playboy, or remind us in some clip of that TV biker character from the eighties, The Renegade.
Doorman has fun with his audiovisual stunts And he doesn't seem to care about traditional Uruguayan prudence. Shocking and upsetting is part of his art, whether we like it or not., It seems to work. His latest adventure is his clip Good and Evil, a piece that seems more designed for the screens of a nightclub than for the usual exhibition spaces for this type of work. Without seeking direct coherence between the elements used, We see pills of dubious origin pass before our eyes, televisions explode, animations representing old, little-remembered sound figures, models swaying their bodies with the exact morbidity, and even samples of old commercials that are recognized in the credits. with total irony, much to the displeasure of the complainers. It is a bombardment of moving images whose sole purpose is to set the rhythm of the song with the discipline with which a vj at any well-known rave of the moment. Don't expect an inspirational story like those told by renowned international pop figures. Here, the poetry is different., It is the poetry of controlling chaos amidst the frenzy of the bacchanal.
Doorman, provocateur, He's back on the attack. Some will advise you to ignore this unhealthy product. Others will invite you to indulge in the delusion. It's up to you.