LOSPELOS: 03.2008

27.3.08

ERICA IL CANE

Erica il Cane
"FUR"
fue inauguración jueves, 21 de febrero, 20:00 h.
y fue hasta el sábado, 22 de marzo

p'articipate

World bear and moustache championship in Brighton

26.3.08

Kami-kiri
(“hair-cutter”)

There's actually quite a dearth of information on this yōkai on the internet (but not the long-horned beetle, kamikirimushi). All sources pretty much say only one thing: this yōkai appears out of nowhere when a person is about to marry a yōkai/ghost/shape-shifted animal and attempts to cut that person's hair. Doesn't really say much, right?

Or does it? Nearly all references to cutting hair (with only a couple of notable exceptions) in Japanese literature refer to the cutting of hair in order to take a monk's or nun's vows. Imagine, if you will, you are at a nice Catholic wedding and the groom walks in wearing the collar and suit of a priest! Strange? Also, keep in mind that hair was worn long (especially by women--the hair of Heian era women reaching longer than she was tall in some cases), so to keep our little priest analogy more at pace with growing hair back out, let's just imagine the groom can't take of his priest's collar for at least several months. Something like this is likely to cause a big stir, possibly a postponement of the wedding, and people are going to talk.

25.3.08

from the Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007

Wu Gaozhong

in 2001 Wu caused a sensation in Shanghai when he emerged from the belly of a cow stuffed with rose petals, into which he had earlier been packed. More recently he has produced some spectacular sculptural work using thousands of pig hairs painstakingly inserted into wood.

space Cultural Ample presenta -por primera vez en España- una exposición retrospectiva de la obra de
Wu Gaozhong. La exposición permanecerá hasta el 30 de abril.

Espace Cultural Ample en esta ocasión presenta una de las series fotográficas más destacadas de Wu Gaozhong, en la cual el artista modela con pan y otras comidas miniaturas de pagodas, templos y jardines, que luego retrata en el momento en que están fermentándose, encontrando en este proceso biológico y reconstructivo, una elocuente metáfora de los cambios de su cultura.

También se presentará una parte de la serie escultórica Night Stranger y Spook Army en las cuales el artista reproduce un conjunto de individuos como militares, familiares y objetos cotidianos tallados en madera, de los cuales emergen pelos de jabalí incrustados meticulosamente. Estas inquietantes esculturas evocan –citando las propias palabras del artista– recuerdos de su realidad infantil y el universo ambiguo de algunos de sus sueños y pesadillas.