El columpio:Transferencias, escenas, constelaciones

Abstract

The swing, a ritual object that recalls a richness of symbols, becomes an everyday object of children’s play; we explore the emerging imaginary that emerges in this translation from the ritual to the play, displaying a symbiosis of childhood scenes and creative constellations that the swing arises in various authors from the memory of their most primal experiences. From the hand of his swing in static imbalance, Juan Navarro Baldeweg immerses us into “the floating region” in childhood primary emotions in relation to gravity, through the fascinating scenes of children games, between 1734 and 1739 that Chardin painted. Peering into the windows that the author opens, we face the seduction of vertigo or flight desire, impulses that emanate from the physical realities of the gravity, weight and balance, notions that the artist rescue on his journey to children and allow to feel, so syncretic, the occult laws that govern space, realizing the unattainable, the feeling of infinity or the magic of the disappearance.