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Waterfall braid horse12/4/2023 Rather than a traditional retrospective, Giménez’s MALBA show, featuring nearly 80 paintings, sculptures, and more, will have “the structure of a film, with each scene reflecting Giménez’s distinct themes, styles, and obsessions,” according to its description. These posters, many containing surrealist animals amid bright pops of color, tapped the countercultural spirit that was in the air at the time. Image Credit: Photo Santiago Orti/Courtesy MALBAĭuring the ’60s and ’70s, Edgardo Giménez caught the attention of many in Argentina with his Pop-inflected posters abounding with trippy imagery. “Edgardo Giménez: No habrá ninguno igual” at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.If he comes again we shall all ask him to tell us where he thinks balloons come from."Īnd the other five girls all answered, "Yes," or "Yes, yes," or "Yes, yes, yes," real fast like a balloon with a fire chaser after it. The sixth little girl kicked the heel of her left foot with the toe of her right foot and said, "He is a nice man. He kept looking back when he left the Village and the last thing he saw was the six girls each with six balloons fastened to the six braids of yellow hair hanging down their backs. And after he said good-by and rode up the street, he lifted his head and face to the sky and let loose a long ripple of laughs. Running away from fire keeps them light."Īll the time he listened to the six girls the face of the Gray Man kept getting more hopeful. All the fire chasers are made terrible quick and when they come they burn quick, so the balloon is made light so it can run away terrible quick. Every balloon has a fire chaser chasing it. The sixth girl, the last one, kicked the heel of her left foot with the toe of her right foot, put her thumbs under her ears and wiggled all her fingers, then stopped all her kicking and wiggling, and stood looking up at her balloons all quiet because the wind had gone down-and she murmured like she was thinking to herself: A long green balloon with white and yellow belly stripes is a ghost. Look for apple trees where half is red pippins and half is red pippin balloons. Look for trees where half is oranges and half is orange balloons. The fifth little girl stood first on one foot, then another, bent her head down to her knees and looked at her toes, then swinging straight up and looking at the flying spotted yellow and red and green balloons, she said: The fourth little girl jumped straight into the air so all six of her balloons made a jump like they were going to get loose and go to the sky-and when the little girl came down from her jump and was standing on her two feet with her head turned looking up at the six balloons, she spoke the shortest answer of all, saying: The wind saw the bubble and picked it up and carried it away, telling it, 'Now you're a balloon-come along and see the world. A long time ago it used to be sliding along on water, river water, ocean water, waterfall water, falling and falling over a rocky waterfall, any water you want. The third little girl held both of her ears like she was afraid they would wiggle while she slid with a skip, turned quick, and looking up at her balloons, spoke these words: It said, 'I used to be a yellow pumpkin flower stuck down close to the ground, now I am a yellow balloon high up in the air where nobody can walk on me and I can see everything. It was talking to itself like people talk. The second little girl put her first finger next to her nose, looked up at her six balloons dipping up and down like hill flowers in a small wind, and said: The yellow and green balloons come from the east wind and the north wind." The first little girl put her thumb under her chin, looked up at her six balloons floating in the little blue wind over her head, and said: And he said to them, "Tell me why are balloons-that is what I want you to tell me-why are balloons?" So they talked, he asking just to be asking and the six balloon girls answering just to be answering.Īt last his sad mouth broke into a smile and his eyes were lit like a morning sun coming up over harvest fields. "Oh, hoo-hoo-hoo, then we start out and go straight ahead and see what we can see," they all answered just to be answering and they dipped their heads and swung them up which of course dipped all the balloons and swung them up. "And where do you go when you get back where you came from?" he asked just to be asking. "Oh, hoo-hoo-hoo, back where we came from," and they all turned their heads back and forth and sideways, which of course turned all the balloons back and forth and sideways because the balloons were fastened to the fine braids of hair which were fastened to their heads. "All six of you and your balloons, where you going?" "Who-hoo-hoo? Who-who-who?" the six girls cheeped out.
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