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The Battalion |ENTERTAINMENT Sr Thursday, July 27, 1989 o (Joya ethching exhibit inspires nightmarish visions in viewers -^Display housed in MSCForsyth Center Galleries By Chip Sowden NCE Cards vith cur- 5) 9- I GUEST REVIEWER ’9-4756 menti )l 'UNGPOOi L’B «K)M »AK BAM ■ Don’t look too hard, or you won’t be able to sleep at night. ■ The nightmarish visions that aire Francisco Goya’s “The Pro verbs,” on display now through August 20 at Texas A&M’s For syth Center Galleries in the MSC, ate a fantastic, grotesque enigma. ■ Although “The Proverbs” se ries, also called “The Disparates,” is among Goya’s lesser-known works, the etchings are roughly contemporary with his “black paintings,” of which “Saturn De- vpuring His Children” is a fa mous part. ■ The series makes frequent use of bizarre, distorted imagery and unusual composition. There are any hidden images, and in a acabre way, it’s fun looking for these hidden animals, faces and objects where you wouldn’t ex pect them. In the etching “Matrimonial Folly,” a grotesquely distorted man and woman joined at the back point to a cloth-draped be ing whose hands are clasped des perately in prayer, while a crowd of deformed dwarfs looks on. In an untitled plate, the central figure holds the hand of someone with a face for an elbow and looks through the picture plane, in hor ror, at something apparently be hind the viewer’s back. The mystery in the 18 etchings is compelling, although any at tempt at interpretation is danger ous. The enigmatic nature of the series is at least partially a result of Goya’s desire to elude inter pretation of works he feared would offend the Spanish king. In Philip Hofer’s introduction IN ADVANCE Second Dinner Theater show opens today The MSG Dinner Theater, in association with the Aggie Play ers, will present its second pro gram of the summer with “Count Dracula.” The comical version of the Transylvanian legend will open tonight at 8 in Rudder Fo rum. Performances will also be given Friday and Saturday nights at 8 and next weekend (August 3-5). The dinner portion of the pre sentation will be served from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Faculty Club in Rudder Tower. Tickets are available in the MSC Box Office. For more infor mation, call 845-1234. Exhibit by Navasota artist to open in MSC An exhibit of watercolor paint ings by Navasota artist Terry Hol liday will open in the MSC Gal lery on Tuesday, August 1. Titled “An Experience in Wa tercolor,” the exhibit features around 20 paintings by the award-winning artist. Holliday will lecture in 201 MSC at 7 p.m. on the day the ex hibit opens. A reception in the gallery will follow the lecture. The lecture, reception and ex hibit are all free of charge and open to the public. MSC Visual Arts is presenting the exhibit, which will be open the entire month of August. Thursday TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 8 p.m. in 104 Zachry. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m. For more information contact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 704 AB Rudder to watch a video presentation on the concept of God in Islam. For more informa tion contact Moosa at 846-3350 or Brad at 846-1404. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. For more information con tact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contact the C.D.P.E at 845-0280. Friday STUDENTS OVER TRADITIONAL AGE: will have a brown-bag lunch for stu dents with children, at noon, in Room 204 of the O&M Building. For more infor mation contact Nancy Thompson at 845-1741. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. /ferns for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. to the Dover edition of “The Dis parates,” a book containing prints from the etchings, Hofer wrote, “The full title of each print was, as usual, disguised in order that its personal, political, religious or satirical inspiration could not be identified.” After all, the etchings were cre ated during the Spanish Inquisi tion. That even the titles of these works can shed no light on their meaning has made interpretation of “The Proverbs” difficult. Joe Arredondo, curator of the Forsyth Center Galleries, said scholars have tried to decipher the series for more than a hun dred years. “The Proverbs” were first pub lished in 1864, 50 years after Goya’s death. The Forsyth Center Galleries, at the old site of the Former Stu dents’ Association in the MSC, is a beautiful place to see small exhi bitions of this kind. However, the piped-in music, sporting geriatric versions of songs like “Here Comes the Sun,” simply goes against the Goya. Other exhibitions in the galle ries include: •Casey Williams; a collection Francisco Goya’s etching “Modo De Volar” (“Way of Flying”) Medical School’s collection. All will run through August 20 and are free to the public. A re ception for the artists of the med ical school collection, many of whom are faculty members or family of faculty, will be held Au- of hand-tinted, large-scale photo graphs. •David Everett; a collection of polychromed mahogany sculp ture. •Art from the Texas A&M gust 1. The Forsyth Center Galleries are open daily. Hours for the cen ter are noon to 8 p.m. on Mon day; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Nice guys’ of Tesla perform fiery Austin show By Keith Spera Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack Tesla’s Jeff Keith and Frank Hannon perform Sat. night. ENTERTAINMENT WRITER Last Saturday night, the Austin City Coliseum was the sight of one of the more bizarre concert scenarios in this reviewer’s memory. Three hard rock bands — Kix, Tesla and Great White — were on the bill, but things just didn’t seem right for a rock concert. For starters, the Coliseum looks more like a high school gymnasium (and a dumpy one at that) than a concert arena; there were no ramps to wander up to enter the building and only one door. The only seats were a few rows of bleachers lining the walls. A bunch of that fuzzy- looking, flame-retardant stuff cov ered the ceiling. Also, everyone associated with the show was just too darn nice for a hard-rock concert, where egos are generally bigger than the facility hosting the show and everyone mak ing a dollar on the concert, from ushers to road managers, seems to forget that it’s the audience mem bers who ultimately pay their sala ries. When Tesla’s managers learned- that we were supposed to have photo and press passes for the show but had somehow been left off the list, they promptly gave us V.I.P. passes and asked if we’d like to meet the band after the show. Backstage, Kix’s road manager, Bob Daniels, despite having been on the road for 11 months and proba bly having met about a billion peo ple, actually remembered us from back in February, when we met him backstage at a Ratt/Britny Fox/Kix show in Houston. Tesla’s drummer, Troy Luccketta, chatted with us backstage, then gra ciously invited The Battalion contin gent back to his band’s tour bus for a screening of Tesla’s new video, “Love Song,” which hasn’t even been released to any video channels (it was filmed in front of 16,000 fans in the band’s hometown of Sacra mento). On the bus, Tesla bassist Brian Wheat related with sincerity how much it hurts to be misquoted and taken advantage of by members of the press. All the band members and roadies were basically cheery, well-man nered and sober. Tesla and Great White had even put egos aside and were “co-headli ning” on this tour, with the two bands alternating the order they performed in nightly. Of course, there was some indica tion that this was a hard-rock con cert. The usual herd of aging, more- make-up-than-clothes rock queens were on hand, as well as the kids sporting the black T-shirts of the lat est rock band to come through town (in the context of the gym-like col iseum, these people made it seem as if the local high school was holding a costume dance and everybody showed up as a rock groupie). And the music was loud. But this was not your run-of-the-mill show of generic screamers. See Tesla/Page 6 SALES* 11 jted Not aU MBAs are created equal. Graduating from one of the better business schools can give you a competitive edge. And with twice as many people getting their MBAs today as 10 years ago, every advantage counts. It’s no surprise that enrollment in Kaplan’s GMAT prep course has more than quadrupled in those 10 years. Students come to Kaplan to in crease their scores. And better scores mean better chances for getting into the school of your choice. 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