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Rosângela Rennó: Mad Boy Presentation in »Denkzeichen 4. November 1989«, illuminated billboard on Berlin's Alexanderplatz, May 4 until August 3, 2001 RED SERIES (Military): The starting point of Red Series (Military) is the »portrait bourgeois«. The original portraits that make up the Red Series were obtained from a collection of family albums from different countries (Brazil, U.S., Germany, France, Russia, Argentina, and others), donated by friends, bought in flea markets and second hand shops, and found on the streets. All are domestic photographs showing individual men and children wearing military (or military-inspired) uniforms. The images were retouched in the computer to achieve a certain »zero degree« of visibility, as though immersed into the saturation of the applied blood-red color. The blood-like color used annuls the whites and »delays/pushes the image to the limit of visibility.« According to Mariano Navarro, in Red Series there is an effect of »evaporation of the image, by the action of thinning it out until it becomes almost transparent. Then, only the spectator's susceptibility (the action of receiving/absorbing something in himself or the aptitude for experiencing a certain effect) will endow a personal content to something that comes to us from the shadows and lights of the past.« In a way, there is a common opaque background in all of the images, where the different thin images are amalgamated. Effects of a phantasmagoria where the universal male vanity, associated with the use of the uniform, enters in tune with violence in a latent form. Download this text (Word/Win9x) 
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