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David Lynch: beyond cinema

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'Boy Lights Fire', David Lynch (2010)
David Lynch: beyond cinema
Nora Barnach barcelona - 20/01/25

Despite being known worldwide for films such as Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986), Mulholland Drive (2001) or the cult series that redefined television, Twin Peaks, David Lynch (1946-2025) developed a parallel career in the plastic and visual arts, revealing a creativity that went far beyond the big screen. Before establishing himself as a filmmaker, Lynch trained at several art schools, such as the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington or the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he began to experiment with cinema as a natural extension of his own pictorial practice. Influenced by surrealism, he developed an aesthetic marked by a constant interest in the subconscious and in everything disturbing and disturbing that we would find on a journey into the interior of the human mind.

David Lynch: beyond cinema 'Untitled (Crucifix)', David Lynch (1973)

During the 1970s, his plastic works consisted mainly of paper, lithographs and monochrome collages, such as 'Untitled (Crucifix)' , a black and white that also characterized his early films, such as The Elephant Man (1980). Over time, Lynch incorporated color and his creations, whether pictorial or cinematic, shared the same visual language: distortion, desolation, restlessness and mystery. The dreamlike, the characters trapped in labyrinthine plots and the bewilderment become a constant in his work and the experimentation with sound and image ceases to be simply a technique and becomes an expressive necessity. His plastic work has complemented his cinema and vice versa, a constant dialogue between disciplines that takes you into worlds where reality and fantasy coexist, and where it seems that life can be a dream and a nightmare at the same time.

David Lynch: beyond cinema

Lynch's cinema has been a visual and narrative revolution that has managed to capture and move entire generations, thus making him a benchmark of contemporary cinematic aesthetics and leaving a legacy that goes beyond any label where cinema, painting and art in general mix in a constant search for the subconscious.

However, beyond the surrealism, the darkness, the disturbing characters, the macabre and enigmatic scenes, Lynch also showed his most sensitive side. A straight story (1999), is a masterful, moving, delicate and simple film. Alvin Straight's tractor ride becomes a tribute to life, a sample of a cinematographic classic that, almost without intending it, has become one of the best works of recent decades.

David Lynch: beyond cinema

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