"Bretzel"

plinio @

Dear Rave (ing) lunatic:
To get to the RAVE party:
I tried following your instructions, starting from Tegel airport which is quite close to where I live... Unfortunately I soon realized I had actually forgotten to pack your instructions, so I relied on my somewhat chaotic memory.
I headed to the nearest "Bretzel" booth (that is how germans spell it) and started munching on it until I remembered it was for the baby elephant in the Zoo. Of course by the time I got there I had almost finished eating it because you said there would be no chance on the airoplane to B.Juarez airport because people talk all the time with their mouths full of mexican words. That sounded pretty indigestible, so I then headed for the nearest Starbucks for a coffee and rejected the thought of buying two muffins, because muffins are gross and I´d rather pay for two coffees and pee my way through the next twelve hours than have to chew my way through that ammount of oversized excrescence.
Well, I then took the path back to Tegel and figured it was better to have a good meal at home and try to reach the party in the desert some other time, because in truth, I hate hot sand underfoot, I don´t sweat therefore I boil, and I think I´d rather wait unti you make a feast at a more comodious time and in a more agreable environment, such as... why not... Zacatecas itself, where we can resume our shadow theatre prints.

Con amore, Helen

11:00 |*|

30.3.05

From Berlin to Zacatecas

plinio @

dearest helen :

in order to get here from berlin you have to follow these next simple instructions:

go to the nearest travel agency and say: "i want to go to a rave in the desert of central mexico" and if they say "where the hell is that?" ... you can say: "it is in plinio's personal hell: Zacatecas" Get the subway to the Zoo Station, there you must buy a gigant pretzel with salt...

and from there take the bus 109, 128, X9 or the TXL Expressbus to the Tegel International Airport (unless otherwise specified by the agent) get a ticket to Benito Juarez airport in Mexico City and check in your luggage. Get a cuple of muffins from starburcks because the lunchtimes in the plane are completely arbitrary and get yourslef a nice interesting book to stand the 12 killing hours... go thru customs and declare the pretzel... they just hate that. Go to the mexicana airlines office to get a ticket to Zacatecas... before check in, check out what is hanging in
the airport gallery... after rolling up your eyes and realizing with pain that the art scene is always the same in mexico.. proceed to check in. Do not bother in carrying your book because people in that flight, no matter what, have the tendence to talk to you. Get a scotch or tequila to be able to survive the fear of such a small weak airplane, survive the jetlag and of course, the culture shock. It is always nicer to be higher than the plane.

once you get to the Zacatecas airport, pick up your luggage and look for the most handsome man in the entire airport and give him the pretzel... I will be happy to take you to the rave.

plinio

18:14 |*|

23.3.05

alterKUNST

plinio @

18:01 |*|

9.3.05

Grafica conceptual

plinio @

Las expresiones gráficas contemporáneas traspasan las fronteras físicas y culturales. Han variado tanto las técnicas en los últimos años que es necesario estar al día para tener siempre lo último en tecnología al servicio del artista invitado.

Es precisamente con este afán de actualizar nuestras posibilidades; que Museograbado ha decidido enviar a su segundo mejor impresor (el primero soy yo, claro) a la provincia de León y Castilla de Españaa para afrontar y asimilar, como es bien su costumbre, las corrientes neoconceptuales de la gráfica internacional.

Aqui en la fotografía podemos apreciar al maestro Jorge Pérez desarrollando una profunda investigación técnico-semiótico-conceptual respecto a la efímera pero visualmente contundente 'snowgraphy' o 'grabado en nieve' inventada originalmente por Firulais, el perrito de Gabriel Orozco. Y lo hace con su inconfundible pero conceptualmente coherente marca personal: "Jorgito estuvo aqui".

11:36 |*|