{"id":30046,"date":"2026-06-03T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=30046"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:34:03","slug":"rhino-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/06\/03\/rhino-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhino Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new book arrived in the post this week. Rhino Head<\/em><\/a> is a collection of words (in both German and English) by Carlos Atanes and drawings by Jan van Rijn which describes itself thus:<\/p>\n

This illustrated fantastical narrative consists of 21 chapters and features short, self-contained stories told from shifting narrative and temporal perspectives. It is a collaboration between author\/director Carlos Atanes and illustrator Jan van Rijn, and explores the realms of eroticism and magical realism.<\/p>\n

What lies behind a simple fable about wolves and rabbits? An actress fleeing in terror from an underground film shoot on the slopes of Mount Fuji? A New Mexico scrap dealer serving coffee to two visitors from outer space? A fashion designer who believes she is being dreamed by a mythical figure? An antiques forger who discovers an old tale has come true? A female cult disrupting the cosmic order with terrifying rituals?<\/p>\n

This interwoven web of stories includes a summons to a fictitious event, sunflowers acting as orgasmic energy batteries, rhino heads at the farthest reaches of the world, pornographic films projected inside the viewer\u2019s mind, dolls transformed into women and women transformed into dolls \u2013 a constellation of strange intertwined incidents creating a hyperfable, moving beyond its individual characters because the meaning of the whole can only be revealed to each individual reader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Having known Jan for some time\u2014I contributed to the Genet-themed collection he put together in 2021<\/a>\u2014I was happy to write a foreword for his new publication. In books like this you tend to find the pictures acting solely as illustration but here there’s more of a dialogue going on between the different media. The drawings show you things the texts don’t provide, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Rhino Head<\/em> doesn’t appear to be on sale just yet but anyone wanting further information should contact Kraut and Rubies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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