GAZELA

Technik: HDTV/ Stereo

Länge: 8:13 min.

Udo Rein confronts us with a ‘civil’ artistic experience, which is the result of a search about a world of marginalization and refusal, and which gives birth to an extremely captivating vision.
It is at the same time poetic and extreme, lyric and dramatic.
Rein sure does not stay on the surface of things, as it is not only a journey for catching the contradictions of our economic system; and it’s not only an accusation of the power which ignores what’s going on in these places where men, women and children survive inhuman conditions.
It is mainly an act of poetry, it’s the social and aesthetic commitment of an artist for making us a proposal and trying to change the social system.
It’s sure not the solution of the problem and it’s not only a denouncement: as a man of today, as a man of images, Rein carries along the burden of what he sees.
Fragments of lives and stories, film stills, moments which leave a mark and which Rein reprocesses and re-transfers to us as a call for the acknowledgment of poetry as the only and absolute value capable of guiding us in this chaos, in this scenario so full of contrast and incertitude.

Prof. Silvio Cattani, 2nd Director Museum MART, Rovereteo Italy & Prof. Gianmario Baldi
Director of the „G.Tartarotti“ Rovereto Town Library – Museum MART

„Gazela“ – Modern Time Slavery
In his 2006 article about the works of Udo Rein, Christian Jacobs said: „Slavery is not something of the past. I can still see it, but why do I turn away my eyes every time I come across it?“

Mauricio Scudero, Italy, 2004