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" Hunger "(Steve McQueen)

Who? What? Where? When? How? Why? The answers to these and other questions are very easy to answer when we remember the sad events in the Maze Prison, Belfast (Northern Ireland) in 1981. The story is known, was told in newspapers and has already booked a chapter in any encyclopedia of the twentieth century: Bobby Sands, IRA activist, began a hunger strike as a form of oo protest treatment of prisoners from that prison, claiming the status of political prisoner. Skin and bone, Sands was to die shortly afterwards of a heart attack, becoming a symbol of the struggle of that group.
Now, in 2008, the British artist Steve McQueen recreates the events experienced in the Maze prison that year. "Hunger" is the story from the inside, that it was impossible to reproduce in newspapers and encyclopedias and not fall on mannerisms epics, too plastic, typical of Hollywood. An unabashed exercise, violent, filthy, that reveals the decadence, the rituals that were subject humilhaçãoa dozens of prisoners from that prison and taken to an extreme faith by someone who refused to live under those conditions. Somewhere between the martyr, the hero or the anti-hero, Bobby Sands is here portrayed as one who was aware only of their beliefs and the effects of their decisions.

From here, McQueen gets in the story with artist's hand and makes it a true treatise on human suffering, its limits and its convictions. Without making any value judgments, exposes the facts with a remarkable distance and puts the human condition in the action. The events that led to the hunger strike of Bobby Sands, the political context of Northern Ireland or life outside those four walls, are just the Trojan horse of the actual battle that Steve Mcqueen want here reveal. Actually, Bobby Sands is just his scapegoat and history true could be just a figment of the imagination.

Except for a dialogue between Sands and a majestic priest, where the militant IRA explains why decide to go on hunger strike, gives Mcqueen total primacy to the image and feeling that it conveys, in an exercise where one notices a clear aesthetic vision of an artist. The use of ad hoc technical details sãoa delicious piece de resistance a movie whose sole intention is, deep down, that translate into images that imaginaçãoe words can not convey. The best punch in the stomach of the year.

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Come celebrate Christmas

"I know the father loves to read, so it is simply falling asleep ...", said a boy with wide eyes as he watched the huge bookcase looking for a gift on the eve of Eve. Christmas is a strange time. The malls to solve an early present to their customers and extend their opening hours beyond the limits of reasonableness. Customers rejoice, are touched by the gesture and invade these malls looking for objects that never would remember to buy them at any other time of year. And then offer them to family, friends and the "secret friend" of the company there. Some dare to say that this will give immense way, at least once in their lifetime. They are the self-help books to his brother, the exfoliating Jojoba to her grandmother, the last romance of the Nobel Prize for his father, the selection of teas for mom ... All made with love and affection, yeah. These people do not like us, believe me ... I would still like to see the face of the lucky one who received the book "What to Do After You Die" the chick who was yesterday on "Vasco da Gama." At least the cover attracted our attention: "Is there sex in addition ?"... Oh, Merry Christmas!

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The contemporary Chinese art is sick ...

was inevitable. Four years after the great boom in Chinese contemporary art market one begins showing the first signs of cansaçoe, according to the Herald Tribune (December 5 edition), the end state of grace may be in sight. Under normal circumstances, would tell that it was only a reflection of the economic crisis across the planet from one end to another. After all, the disastrous results in recent auctions indicate the possibility - in the last auction of Chinese art at Christie's, on November 30 in Hong Kong, only 18 of the 32 works that went under the hammer and found a buyer that is priced below expectations. But the other contours win situation if we consider that in recent years there has been a spontaneous generation of artists who, except honorable exceptions, literally walked trailer of a market trend.

In four years, the Chinese carousel was amazing, almost a joke: It is confirmed, overvalued talent to so many; speculation has inflated the market price and produced false icons and, above all, gave to understand that the Chinese contemporary art has become so important that at some point, Briefly, naively believed that we were facing a vanguard of the twenty-first century. Is there, in fact, a common denominator of these artists clearly pointing to the notion of movement or trend. And one manifestation of this nature, which the market breaks out in block transmitting a certain cultural ideal of contemporary China, can not be neglected. However, the statute seems to us unfair edge - an idea that will certainly be duly considered in the coming years, after the dust settles ...

However, this is perhaps the best time to get some interesting pieces at good prices. Forgotten unbridled euphoria of recent years and speculators to turn to other places, the crisis itself will help bring some sense and reset the logic of the market, separating the wheat from the chaff, the essential accessory. And above all, to produce a balance that will offer a real vision of what is Chinese contemporary art. With its eyes on the East, the question imposes itself: and now, who will be the last laugh? ...

Yue Minjun, "Between Men And Animal" (2005)