the third time

there is always, in rugby games, what is called a third time. After the game, all the gentlemen take a shower, get dressed nicely and have a drink to meet the adversaries. That is the third time - el tercer tiempo- , the one that happens after the game. Girls, family, friends, and the two rival teams forget all the toughness involved in the game. Thats what I call a great solution to all the problems. The third time. Many people, whose fears are greater than fates -as julian says in his 11th dimension song-, should maybe give a chance to things as smart as a third time. And leave all the shit from a rough play under the shower. And confront their rivals. Without fear, without anything that would not let them enjoy the moment.
Anyway, a third time, is the new visual concept im working on, listening to the marvelous remix that aeroplane has done for au revoir simone's "another likely story".
Specially dedicated to all those who tremendously need a fair third time. Peace!

a "classic" of my childhood

"El último Set" de Jordi Serrá y Fabra
...with a really cool 90´s cover ;)...

madriz madriz madriz

madrid me recibe con un sol espléndido. ese ritmo que parece desacelerarse y las esperas en las aceras, bajo el sol, maravilloso sol, con mis nuevas gafas. la prisa que desaparece al llegar a madrid. y las buenas noticias de nuevo material que se va a publicar en distintas revistas. nuevos registros, nuevos equipos de gente, nuevas conexiones. todo parte de una sucesión natural de elementos y situaciones que se desarrollan por si solas. so exciting!
el tiempo que se me echa encima y las personas a las que tengo tantas ganas de ver. diego y su familia. madriz madriz. es un buen cambio de chip por unos dias. el sol. el sol. el ritmo del sur de europa. schön!
;)

villa stuck

a few pics of the villa stuck, the house/atelier/museum of the munchener´s painter franz von stuck. one of the ideologist behind the "secession" movement - which started in 1892 and got really big in Vienna -. unglaublich the atmosphere, the salon for the music, his own little world. a must if you come to munchen, a very very very special place.

dancedancedance

guy bourdin für charles jourdan 1970´s

guy bourdin, selfportrait at man ray´s studio -1953-

for a while my mum was completely crazy about the charles jourdan shoes. They were the ones that she used to buy in paris and milano. And the ones that she used to wear, when we were little, for special occasions. Those colorful-beautiful-elegant-leather- high heels. this crazy fascination she had probably had to do with the magnificent work that the french photographer guy bourdin did during the 70´s with its image. The ads of charles jourdan back then were astonishing art pieces, the colours, compositions, the style. They matched gracefully within the pages of the french vogue as the best fashion editorial you could dream with. Anyway, here is a bit of that work that probably fascinated my mum back then. I am as hooked up as my mum, almost 30 years later. Magnifique!

paulina olowska at the pinakothek der moderne

the polish artist paulina olowska in warsow, 2009.


last week i was at the pinakothek der moderne, one of my favorites museums im munchen, and they were installing the exhibition of the polish artist paulina olowska, which is, i must say, one of my favorites of the new generation of contemporary people. She is 33 years old and her collages are just amazing, her lenguage beautiful and poetic. Therefore was quite hard to go through some rooms where the exhibition was being installed and just check out the paintings from the back, just the signature; a bunch of beautiful surprises waiting to be hanged. Fortunately they have a beautiful par of rooms with pieces from Joseph Beuys that took my dissapoinment away! ;). The opening was held yesterday but i really dont like openings. Is nice to go and have a beer and see your friends but the conditions to see the stuff are by far the worse you could imagine. But i am going today or monday. I really like the pinakothek. At the beggining seemed quite messy, this huge building, but now i just go to see a room and then I leave. So here Ive posted some of Paulina´s pieces, from old catalogs, and also from the special that the Suddeutsche Zeitung published yesterday. I really find cool this tradition of giving one special issue every year to one artist, which is also designed together with the person chosen. Even more when the person in question is somebody as special as Paulina, whose language passes perfectly with the idea after it. One special heft, for Paulina. Made by her. A nice weekend´s present.