Man is like a bear 
final pass and belatedly by the Independence Square to see the famous bear "partners" who live there for a month or less. As you know, it's 140 sculptures of bears called
Buddy Bears, who were Bear created from the symbol of Berlin, where artists from various countries painted on them what they considered representative of their land, and then exposed them in public spaces, symbolizing the union of national idiosyncrasies, being then sold and using the proceeds of such sales in charity. One of those ideas silly, harmless and well-known that do not serve much, but have some sympathy, especially children, can be an excuse to find some country or some characteristic of that country which was unknown.
between the rows of bears is a notable gap in the group of bears from countries whose name begins with "A". The bear away is the nearest country culturally and more like Uruguay, Argentina, which had to be withdrawn after it was sabotaged a few times. Why was there Uruguayans who attacked what is proposed as a symbol of global harmony? Why make a meaningful action so grossly intolerant?
Well, the Argentine artist decided, in my opinion with great sensitivity in relation to the pictorial tradition of the neighboring country to make a "steak", this charming style, and very kitsch, Buenos Aires and so deeply that even the blind Jorge Luis
Borges has dedicated a beautiful pages. The thread, as some "obviously not all know, began as a form of adornment of animal traction commercial trucks, which were illustrated with popular figures, phrases, popular wisdom (some hoodlums as" I killed the Dead Sea, or "at the end, first I"), decorated with baroque frames near the bright colors. The thread was defined by one of his teachers as "a happy thought that you paint," which is a paraphrase of the famous definition of
Discépolo of tango: a sad thought that is danced.
And the reference is not accidental, since the thread is, as the graffiti (with which it has some kinship precursor) and hip-hop-inseparably linked to the tango, which is almost, as anyone who has visited La Boca, the equivalent plastic. No wonder then that many of the threads are dedicated to great figures of the tango and, together with the Virgin of Luján
-wife and Argentina patron and protector of the roads, the most recurring character in the popular art logically
Carlos Gardel. Argentina And the bear was illustrated precisely by an image of Creole Thrush. Apparently a terrible offense.
Of all the controversies that have existed between the two sides of the same nation that are Uruguay and Argentina, may not be any more stupid that of the nationality of Carlos Gardel. I find it impossible to tell if the guy was born in Tacuarembó and Marseilles, while the theory of "Uruguay" always seemed far more fetched and susceptible to counterfeiting that the "French", but can not care less, for which interest them both nationalities (not my case) is totally undeniable that Gardel is neither the Uruguayan nor French, but is obviously of Argentina, and Buenos Aires to be exact. Gardel arrived in Buenos Aires, from both France and Uruguay, is irrelevant-a two and a half, that is, before having a clear conscience at all, grew up in the Supply and Argentina just nationalized could. He developed his career in that country, made the same residence, came to encourage the selection of Argentina in World 30 and capital dedicated to one of his best known songs - "Mi Buenos Aires querido" - without which there is no a topic of authorship referred to Tacuarembó or Marseille. And, of course, is buried in the cemetery of Chacarita.
There are artists and fully linked with the nation they were born, and many of double nationality. I, for example, argue much the quality Uruguayan
Isidore Ducasse, the Comte de Lautréamont
who not only lived in Montevideo to thirteen years, but returned to this city in a mysterious journey as an adult and can be traced references to it throughout his work and even in his pseudonym. This does not preclude that essentially is a French poet. That is not the case Gardel, who visited much to Uruguay, which was its second largest market, and with much vivacity, used to be assumed as a Uruguayan in the local press. But it was not
Gardel China Zorrilla was a Buenos Aires, and also the main historical figure of a genre but mainly grown in Uruguay Argentina: tango.
But for some the only ignorant Uruguayan steaks that are known to be removed from the face when shaving drunk, Argentina boasts the bear the figure of "Uruguay" Carlos Gardel, was an outrage over this city of evil that wants to take all the good of the Rio de la Plata, which of course is all from Uruguay, a country that unlike cult bullshit. And to show how educated they are first filleted scribbled in the beautiful Bear Argentine and then, but allegedly was under surveillance, scratched with a metal object. As a result the bear was removed and the eastern pride was high. No, if you were going to stay with Gardel in Buenos Aires prepares these arrogant ... Uruguay noma.
The bear was located, as stated in the Plaza Independencia, the same place two years ago some women entrerrianas who had come to hand out leaflets against the installation of a huevazos Botnia were attacked by a hundred male Montevideo. Yes, sir, to learn what it means in the Republic Ponsonby the meaning of the word "independence."
Ricardo Gómez, painter of Buenos Aires-a bear 82-year old man who is considered the greatest master of the art of threading, "no offense. He said that all countries are inadequate and that he really regarded as a River Plate Gardel, courtesy of the vandals do not deserve and that history denies. ***
In these days when the bear was retiring partner Argentine defenders harassed by the local culture, another question came across to some spokesmen for both banks of the Plata. The white candidate for president Jorge Larrañaga
used to criticize the attitude of
Vázquez toward criticism of the Agrarian Federation, the term "Kirchner", making it clearly denigrating a neologism in a country where
Néstor Kirchner became -from conflict-Botnia abominable synonymous with all of the Argentine.
Argentine Ambassador Hernán Patiño Meyer
protested by a public letter, which sensibly remember it's not right that a major political actor and Larrañaga, and a president if he wins the internal potential, use the name of the president of a neighboring nation, associated as an insult, and no matter what that name will continue to govern Argentina over the next two years, which Larrañaga-old mayor of a town boundary as Paysandu, traditionally with huge ties to the nearby city of Columbus, should be elected president of Uruguay, will have to try and negotiate someone who bears the name Kirchner, with whom, instead of making free-attacks could take advantage of institutional change to mend relations badly damaged between the governments of both reasons, an opportunity squandered
Cristina Kirchner incredibly stupid as to berate Vázquez its policy on the Uruguay River in the very act of taking charge.
Patiño Meyer made a clerical error, which was properly reprimanded by the Uruguayan Foreign Minister Gonzalo Fernandez
, and that was to make this protest in an open letter when the protocol was to complain to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but their protest was valid, and the complaint was as understandable as a sensible warning. But do not tell Larrañaga
El Guapo for nothing, and to prove to be have the three eggs and 35 inches of cock, not only did not the slightest apology, but he sent the Argentine ambassador to meddle in their affairs. El Guapo
Kirchner recalled how at this time a former president, not a future candidate, "had gotten into internal affairs of Uruguay, telling Patiño Meyer:" I request to be quiet and not interfere in internal affairs Uruguayan political life. There is no right or credentials to do so. " Take, Buenos Aires puto.
But that was not there, because it was convinced that whizzed time lags, the Colorado candidate Pedro Bordaberry
-whom one of his defining campaign songs as Chief
- Patiño Meyer referred to by saying "For the Sarratea of \u200b\u200bthese times we tell them no mistake" - recalling the Argentine diplomat Manuel de Sarratea
about who are accused of having betrayed the historic father (reluctantly) of parental José Gervasio Artigas
in 1812, which the Uruguayan patriots do not forget so easily, fucking locals.
Chief, which has such a good memory for the distant history, often not knowing anything about recent history when asked about his father, the former dictator Juan Maria
Bordaberry - which had an excellent relationship with Argentina during presidency, but unfortunately to help implement the Condor
and organizing political assassinations of Uruguayans living in Buenos Aires, as
Zelmar Michelini and Hector Gutierrez Ruiz
. Apparently Argentines were good times those, no Sarrata or anything like that, but River Plate patriots willing to collaborate in the patriotic task of killing unarmed men of peace.
The last five years has been a time of continuing hostility between the two countries indistinguishable to anyone not from the region, fueled by political hostility in both countries miserable fishing for easy applause nationalist. But which, as applied to giant cocks competition,
El Guapo and Chief
not understand is something even the
Pepe Mujica -not exactly the brightest star in the political-intellectual firmament is clear: Uruguay will not change his residence and its largest trading partner remains Argentina, when a cold makes them sneeze. Argentina depends little or nothing of his relationship with Uruguay, on the contrary, the banking structure of our country has been a magnificent bridge evasions of the great Argentine capital, but this relationship is essential Uruguay. One can understand, and support if it agrees, that relations rísipidas or become tense when competing interests, but what sense can we make the offense free rulers so irritable and capricious as Kirchner, only to be done before the correlegionarios males? If tomorrow Larranaga took over as president and Cristina comes up to greet the assumption of who uses her married name as an insult by prohibiting, with some ridiculous excuse, imports to Argentina of Uruguayan beef. Will
El Guapo to recruit thousands of unemployed that occur immediately? If you decide that before the energy crisis is not going to sell more energy to the neighboring country, which saved us from collapse lighting a couple of times in recent years. Do we provide
El Guapo generator stay? It is very easy to take the risk male alien. It is very easy be a male, something that seems to be the essential point of these pre-candidacies of poor people who do not understand the difference between a statesman and a football fan. ***
Back to the bears, the bear so upset Argentine Uruguayan was, moreover, one of the prettiest, the best decorations. Something hard to say from that of Uruguay. Its author, Hiram Cohen
sanducero said to have inspired the design of more paint spirt or less random in the meaning of the word "Uruguay" as the poet
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín , ie "river of painted birds." We must have a very free imagination to associate the design of the bear with colorful birds, actually more like the interpretation of a friend of mine, for whom the design reminded him that the artist, after making their physiological needs and have used their hands as toilet paper, would have cleaned them in the unfortunate bear. Literally
Uruguayan design was the worst of the 140 bears on display in the plaza. Among other things arty
arrogance: the idea of \u200b\u200bbears painted was not, clearly, to make a challenging exercise in abstraction, but something more related to the simple craft. Something to try, with taste and humor, to report something about America that reprsentaba. The Uruguayan reported that the bear was just what happens to the plastic design of a country where a decade ago conceptualism exempt the smallest self-funded by the awards exchanged for an endogamous circle of artists, curators, jurors and , reigns over the most basic aesthetic considerations. Uruguayan bear is not only ugly, is a sloth bear, a bear lazy in its execution and arrogant in his selection. A Bear crap, really.
That was noticed by many bystanders, who began to make their voices heard in protest of such representation taunting mess, and many were the protests that the Municipality of Montevideo, the same it took ten years to start protecting national monuments the parks of lateral attacks, it does not seem offended because all the walls of public spaces are covered with political graffiti or even repugnant religious, decided to take part in the matter and, as usual, the remedy was worse the disease.
The solution was to investigate the design aesthetics behind the award of the commission to Cohen, or to promote public debate about the official visual representation or art in general (something really needed in these times where there are large sums of state money devoted to culture and granted under very questionable parameters ), but order a new bear Uruguayan better represent us. Paradoxically (or subtle irony), it was donated by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, and charged that apparently is the official painter of the country these days, Carlos Paez Vilaro
. What did Paez Vilaro, in his work of art ram? Maximize the nationalist trend of cops many bears and make a real showcase of all the cliches of what is considered "national." Vilaró included a football player, a mate, a flag, a carnival musician, a gaucho with a guitar, the Centenario Stadium Tower, the frigate captain Miranda
much sky and a gallery of the
parodists Gypsies who honored as one of its "parody" recently, which for the Vilaro instantly became a national symbol to appear, which is not surprising since it is also present in the bear home, the ironically named "Casa Pueblo" . In extremis, and after he had presented to the photographers
The Country , added, "surely reprimanded by the absence of" high culture "in his bear-a book of
Onetti, one of
Benedetti and Galeano
one . And in an act of sublime chiquitaje included the image of Carlos Gardel in a Bear scapula. Take, fucking locals.
Vilaró Bear is also ugly, but is more consistent with the rest of the sample and has at least the minimum degree of craft and technique that this idea requires more oriented to children at public galleries. But the problem is not the bears but rather the fact that the local art scene kept a pathetic public silence about the tremendous insult that made him a colleague, one can argue the validity of the rather horrendous Cohen bear but the bear that was selected by a jury and, if it is not considered representative or was great shit, which corresponded was taunted those who selected him or Cohen chose to paint it. Once exposed, accredited, is a dirty criminal to pull back and ask for a new bear to another artist, formally the views of how ugly or inadequate was the work of someone who had previously been also elected as official. Cohen
not know and do not know how this insult may have affected institutional but it is something you do not wish on anyone. A I was taught in Uruguay but perhaps for another class, you have to take care of the bad decisions made, and that when they are exposed to a third party in this case Cohen, "we must be him until the end. And enough had been done anonymously ridicule the problem bear Buenos Aires. Now he betrayed a national artist formally and explicitly. The decision was in the IMM, now under the administration of MPP-tupamaros MLN and not stand out precisely because of its power of self-criticism, but one would assume that at least they could identify what a plant would be a brutal
ram. And Plastic is not known for their solidarity and empathy among his union, but I would have liked to read at least one letter of protest over the humiliation suffered by one of their own.
Bears will at some point, and around Independence Square, preparing for the return of the presidency to the same-are rejuvenating and recovering from the brutal decline and urban blight suffered in the last fifteen years. But no esthetic consideration can overcome the sense of profound ugliness I've been feeling in relation to the "Uruguayan" for a while. I do not recognize in the mental smallness in the chauvinism of dwarf on stilts, in the culture of unpleasant and medium, in such candidates for the race for power mounted on the worst and most degraded of which is associated with this community. I felt so depressed in politics since 1989, when the yellow vote clearly set me the dark side and orientality bastard, and I see every day walking to the country, such as who is heading the wall, to a choice of models perpetuators of the rough, ignorant and self-satisfied smugness, the old spiritual, theoretical boasting an education and a culture that has sabotaged every possible way and that is despised scornfully at the first opportunity, the absence of minimum liability or respect for the common areas. The terminal of a machismo society grand gestures and cowardice intimate public. For man
(Uruguay) is like the bear, usually in fours and foul breath.
I were saying no, that was an exaggeration, he had no feelings. He called me radical, I escupíais down the street and I branded anti-Semitic. He claimed that I was wrong, she could not feel empathy, which showed no signs of humanity. You know that I was silent, looked away and outlined a half smile. What is hard to be right and you do not create, Cassandra! Well, hotshot, what do you say now? Where are now your bluster? Where your vaunted love of neighbor? Wake up and see reality!: Susan Boyle allowed to charge more than 10,500 euros per minute. I uphold, my friends: I hate Susan Boyle. 
Because it is high time someone says it loud and clear. Yes, folks, that cries to Heaven, that place where, at the end of the earth, pour the waters of the oceans and monsters lurk. Why are we going to have to make do with fans? Imagine that you broke the car and you need that fix it in haste and efficacy, overall satisfaction, which would Gomaespuma: llevaríais as a professional workshop or dejaríais in the hands of a neighbor who was a CCC in Mechanics module (for which he also gave him a English guitar)? I go further. Imagine that you need a translation: you call a professional translator or you contentáis with your child of a cousin who spent a month in Dublin? Well, bad example, because that would be done, but you see what I mean, right? 
Friends, well open up your ears: let's not puppets, singers and professional hair half dime. Down Bisbal Riquimártines, otesianos and the whole host of silly crush us constantly on the radio and television. Susan Boyle birria became famous singing wonderful, but do not to have heard the same song sung by a professional, a woman who dedicated themselves to that, who knows how to interpret the letter and mourn with the voice? Well now you going to do. Look for Ruthie Henshall and then you come and tell me that you like Susan Boyle. Tell me, brave, that you are very brave. 
