2010 Ninot Exhibition
Written by mpowellPsst. Hey, you. Yeah you, with the shifty eyes and trench coat. You wanna see some sexy ninots? Sure you do, partner. We got your sexy ninots right here.
One of our favorite traditions has become the pre-Fallas Ninot Exhibition at Nuevo Centro. With each additional year, we become more adept at spotting the various Valencian politicians, media figures and celebrities being mocked. This year, popular targets were Rita Bárbera, the Financial Crisis, Levante UD (celebrating 100 years), Zapatero and Obama. Shockingly we only found one Michael Jackson ninot, but it was quite well done.
There are hundreds of ninots on display in the exhibition — each of Valencia’s 600-something Fallas commissions chooses their favorite to be shown early to the public, and possibly win reprieve. Visitors get to vote on their favorite ninot, and the winner is spared a fiery death at the end of Fallas.
It’s an Asian kind of year, apparently, as we noticed a lot of figures inspired by Chinese tradition and Japanese anime. Overall, there seemed to be more perversion this year — ninots really ranged between sickeningly sentimental and sickeningly sexual. Guess which we liked better!
Previous Ninot Exhibits: 2008 / 2009
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Piet wrote,
nice photos!
Link | February 10th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Barack Obama in Valencia, Spain | Random Good Stuff wrote,
[...] Link: Uncensored and many more ninot figures [...]
Link | February 10th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
martijn wrote,
Wow! ALready these ninots make me a bit sad for not being at Fallas this year…
SO i’ll just keep a close watch on your blog for my fix of it…
Enjoy it!
Link | February 10th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Malalt de Falles wrote,
At least there are two ninots of Michael Jackson
Link | February 12th, 2010 at 11:08 am
valencia blog wrote,
Oh .. shoot, now we have to go back again to hunt down the other Michael Jackson figure. Where was it standing?
Link | February 12th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
xufina wrote,
Malalt, I find you everywhere
great pictures
Link | February 20th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Fallas 2010: The Winner wrote,
[...] "Path to Paradise" was the theme, with a humongous tree playing host to the lady of summer, the old man of autumn, the lord of winter and the beauty of spring. The summer lady held a winking sun made up of figures of flame — one of the the monument’s most beautiful touches. Around the base, were ninots who described our various paths to paradise, including a humorous tribute to the deceased Michael Jackson (whose accompanying angels were confused that he was white, and were about to repain…. [...]
Link | March 23rd, 2010 at 4:50 pm