Not
the ordinary Hula Hoop dance but an amazing routine & very
entertaining if you watch it to the end. She well deserves that glass of
wine!
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Sofa On The Mountain
On
the side of the descend of the motorway by Aigues, towards Bacelonesa
roundabout, at the height of Caixa, someone had put this suite of a
long sofa and an arm chair side by side way up the mountain.
Considering the fact that this location can only be reached on foot or
by a bicycle, it wouldn't have been easy getting the sofa and chair up
there.
There
they have been for weeks. Getting dirtier day after day, with added
rubbish thrown round them. Are there any people with a bit of romantic
or poetic sentiments? With such a splendid panoramic view of the whole
city, how can anyone throw dirt round it?
The
strange things people are capable of getting up to ... On one hand,
the ones with sense of romance & humour, on the other the ignorant
& insensitive.
Tags: mountainsofa
Prev: The Spanish Schindler
The Spanish Schindler
"Who
saved a life saved all humanity" so prays the Talmud. In 1944, the
Spanish diplomat Angel Sanz Briz, saved the lives of 5,200 people, men,
women, children, Jews in Hungary under Nazi control. To avoid their sure
slaughter, he provided them with Spanish passports behind Franco's
back, risking his own skin day after day evading the ferocious SS. He
had saved more lives than Schindler of the 'List' fame, and nobody had
dedicated him a film or a mention.
Till now. A television documentary: 'Sanz Briz, the Spanish Schindler' was shown on the Spanish channel Antena 3, work of the journalist Fernando Gonzalez Gonzo, who had redeemed the life work of Sanz Briz, the brave diplomat through the testimonials of his widow and his sons, as well as that of several Jewish survivors and their descendants, thanks to his heroic and selfless actions. The fact that a private TV channel had dedicated part of their valuable time and space to emit this documentary, bypassing the commercial interest to honour a honourable man and good journalism is in itself also an honourable act. It's rare these days and deserves great applause. As said in the documentary a ninety-odd year old man, a violinist in Auschwitz, now plays his violin in Jerusalem: "We are alive so that the conscience of humanity doesn't die". Sanz Briz died in 1980 without ever boasted, not even mention his humanitarian undertaking. |
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Accomplished
C'mon, BimboScupture
It's not easy to get any words out of Boris
Hoppek. He is usually very succinct and more often quiet as a mouse.
But, he speaks loudly and in volumes through his art work. His range of
hooligan style coarse creatures represented by his sculptures gained
great popularity when they appeared in the advertisements of Opel cars.
Those were his 'Bimbosculpture', re-baptised 'C'mon!'. He saw no reason
that these rag-doll creatures had to be innocently sexless, like all
dolls in the market; so his creation had penis or vaginas.
This German artist who has made his home in Barcelona for several years, continues to break waves and tabu, and his new exhibition in Barcelona, in the Iguapop Gallery testify to that. It's titled 'Fragil' (fragile), with the exhibits open to all interpretations, according to the taste and individual understanding of art by each art consumer. In this particular occasion, the format is rather diverse, from photography to water colour as well as sculpture. With feminine sexuality once again the more prominent reference. When asked why he was so interested in the sex theme, he thought about it for literally a couple of minutes, before he answered: "Because I am heterosexual.". That's that, followed by absolute silence. Most art work in 'Fragil' figures female in all forms, in photographs, drawings, paintings and sculpture, with their sexuality as the key element. To this ex graffiti artist, he minds not the criticism that he is out to provoke, which he denied, and considers it okay because those who criticise had actually come specially to view his work and had stopped to reflect on it. Some of his art pieces are figures of black people, which had also provoked sentences referring to him being a racist. He retorted that racist would have ignored the blacks, not showed them off in art forms. He also emphasised that his work is totally opposed to publicity or market value, in which everything is neutral because they don't want to offend anybody. While he is realist and wants to show the world and the people in it as they are. .   However hard I tried, I failed to understand neither the artist nor his art. But that's my problem, not his. |
Tags: bimbosculpture, barcelona
Prev: A Proper Scandal
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Confused
A Proper Scandal
Few
days ago on the 4th, I wrote a Blog titled 'Suicide Online', about a 19
year old boy announcing his suicide online inviting his family, school
mates, and cyber friends or anyone who wished to watch it. That to me
was indeed a sick and twisted scandal, a tragedy made into a spectacle.
A few years back, I posted another Blog titled 'Televised Suicide' about the death of a British man, Craig Ewert. That documentary recorded the whole process was emitted by BBC, no doubt aware of the foreseeable controversy, and the corresponding noises from all media and the general public. Well, this happened as expected, becoming one of the most debated subject and probably more like a scandal. When Ewert, surround by his family and his closest friends, having kissed his wife, breathed his last breath serenely and closed his eyes peacefully for the last time, witnessed on the TV screens in the British homes by thousands, he concluded his life a free man, having made his own decision for his own destiny as he had always done in all his life. Meanwhile, in many more TV screens in other parts of the world, millions, anonymous, famous or unimportant people, were watching fights, murders, robberies, kidnapping, pornography, teenage killings ... and outside, they sold their miserable or scandalous life stories for money, insulting, humiliating, screaming, beating up and killing each other, all spread out on the screen or played out in the streets, without offending the sensibility of anybody. But these same people voiced their indignation considering the documentary indecent. We have lived in the modern society with continuous violence and obscenity any which way you look. There seems to be no space left for decency and dignity any more; not of the living, nor for the dead. Tags:documentary,sensibility |
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Anxious
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