what’s old is news
This year’s Getxophoto is a homage to old people. Like every year, local and international photographers have brought their work together to show it in a special way in the streets and squares of Getxo. This year too, the balde has worked with Getxophoto on a project: "txikiteruak".
passwords at montehermoso
This time various different new illustrations and video works have brought us images of tenderness. You can see how western countries’ images’ empires have shown the difference between the genders and many different pieces with which artists have fought against those empires in The gaze and the apparatus of new media exhibition.
the dark side of frying pans
They’re newly discovered planets. The photographer Christopher Jonassen has discovered them. You can see how fire’s heat has cut the mountains on these planets. But it wasn’t the sun’s heat that created their geographies. Where were these new planets found? On the bottom of frying pans.
hotel photos
The photos we see of hotels in their adverts are really beautiful. The rooms are clean and large, the swimming pool’s water is blue and the countryside around the hotel is gorgeous. This website matches up those hotel photos with ones taken by the guests. The result? It’s rather magical.
wasteland of war
The director Samuel Fuller’s work, which was classified as war cinema, can be seen at Alhondiga until the 21st of September. And that point of view is not a metaphor. During the Second World War, he filmed real war action using a 16 mm camera. He later made beautiful films about morality and violence, and they were always polemical.
2014
Did you think 2016 was the only thing? Well, it’s not. Bilbao’s competing to be named World Design City for 2014. We aren’t opposed to projects that bring tourism and shake up bank accounts (why do they always ask hotel and restaurant associations about these iniciatives?) But it does sometimes seem like cultural iniciatives taken by non-public bodies don’t make much sense. So enjoy today, tomorrow and next week. Because some people reading this won’t get to 2014 or 2016. It’s a matter of statistics.
go girls!
Photos as essays. In this case, the exhibit’s a photo section which shows us second generation girl immigrants’ daily life in Europe. The subject is how teenage girls feel out of place, one way or another, in the family, society, politics. You can see the exhibition from the end of September.
skiffs
There’s another Teink skiff championship. They’ve been rowing along our coast for nearly 20 years now. Most of the skiff crews are from the north but, little by little, people from the south are getting involved too. This year, for instance, “portaletas” has competed. In this age of professionalism and the media, this skiff championship from Bilbao to Donibane Lohizune goes to show that there’s a future for small-scale competitions.
toast
The weirdest thing from the last few months. Someone’s taken some pieces of toast and used them as the base for embroidery, and this seems like the most... (whatever you want) thing in the world to us. It’s crazy to embroider a fried egg or butter, but embroidering mould... Judith G. Klausner, we love you!
wooden pixels
Along with stone and metal, wood is the raw material most used by sculptors. Dallas sculptor Shawn Smith, working in the digital era, has managed to bring wood and pixels together in his spectacular work.
donostiako zinemaldia
Donostiako Zinemaldia comes to us with a new director and a new mayor. Some people are scared by so many changes. But we love new things. And so we believe that this year, too, will be an unbeatable opportunity to see films and enjoy cinema. For instance, the film cycle we write about in this number of the balde is wonderful.
