C H R O N O L O G Y
Article in the magazine "BEST"
1991

 

Already very small they worried their parents because it were baited to draw death's-heads. A few years later under the name of the Rosa-Crux it create images and sounds.

A flag dances with the air, in white letters on bottom color ground is registered "the Rosa-Crux"
"the cross is symbol of suffering, of died and of torment, the pink symbolizes the life, the birth, the love… Two extremes! To live in the medium is a tearing… With the origin this name was the pseudonym of a hermit who A devoted his life to a research on itself, his body and its limits. I smell myself very near to this research on oneself… until where can one go without dying?"

A naked man suspended on the vault of a church in a steel sphere is precipitated inlassablement on an enormous iron plate.
"I concretize my impulses without any censure. When I am in front of a strong image, I will restore it without edulcorating it to try to go possible further and the fact of concretizing something of a little bit insane, of seeing it, of living it, pleasing with other visions. It is an evolutionary work. There are many images which spout out intuitively of a desire which can be sexual, emotive… "

Rats turn in round and play of the hurdy-gurdy.
"I work with rats for a long time. I like to arise what everyone hides. The rat is a splendid symbol, it caricatures the man in the company, it represents also the active ingredient. The same etymology connects the rat and the muscle (mus / ) "

Knelt bodies coat mud…
"This scene with the ground is a kind of foot of nose to the dead one: alive beings playing with the ground, it is a kind of awakening of alive sound on fate. The characters who it bottom adopt an aggravating attitude: they always repeat the same series of gestures. The interest of repetitive is that it quickly becomes aggressive and insistence on a gesture obliges the witness to wonder which is the reason of this act."

On the ochre of the decoration planes a martial music, industrial, repetitive, distilled by three musicians.
"the Rosa-Crux creates a sound and visual environment which locks up that which is there in an alive film. The music it is the air, something of volatile, it is an emotion. The text does not have anything to make there, it is too concrete, it does not play enough with the feeling. In the Rosa-Cruxes there are many words rhythmic, of the text for the beauty of a word, without message."

In addition to this maxi, the Rosa-Crux left a scented double 45 turns to the tar. Mix voices samplées or natural, sounds real or manufactured, environments in Mortal Coil on rhythmic envoûtantes, this sample gives desire very. Rosa Crux is before a a whole reflexion in three dimensions which works with the four elements. They orchestrate it video, the dance the explosive devices and the sounds. They carry out universes, mirrors aesthetic but without concessions, without humour, of human in its ugliness.

Don't you have any scruple, Olivier, has to balance with the face of the man his with dimensions monstrous?
"Not, because what I tell is of each one of us"

 

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