“Inspired by this modern fairytale, where a meadow of wildflowers use their collective power to defeat the cruel plot of the eponymous goblins, this group exhibition re-imagines the rainbow as a celebration of the diversity and individuality of the artistic community and highlights the power of that voice to call for and instigate resistance.” “In Count Ul de Rico’s 1978 children’s book The Rainbow Goblins, the symbolism of the plight of the rainbow becomes a parable for corporate greed, ecological degradation and cultural commodification,” Klein tells us. It guy Darin Klein has curated a handsome show entitled The Rainbow Goblins that opens this Thursday in Hollywood. In the gay community, it has been adopted as a political symbol, only to end up a token of kitsch. The rainbow as a symbol can represent many different concepts – creative imagination, cultural diversity, God’s promise, fleeting insubstantiality. Throughout the story, the goblins express a malicious glee for the desaturation of anything vibrant or colorful.From Erik Bluhm (Great God Pan mag/blog):

The instrumentation and vocals provide a mood and tone to the tales events, with some songs expounding upon elements of the original story by giving a voice to the goblins dialogue. Inspired by The Rainbow Goblins children's book, The Desaturating Seven is a retelling of the story with a Primus twist. The Desaturating Seven by Primus (Album, 2017) They encourage each other to continue onward, fantasizing about the delicious flavors that await them, before settling into a cave to rest for the night. They are determined in this task, traversing vast distances and scaling over mountains in their pursuit of a hidden valley of rainbows that had yet to be tainted by goblin kind. They are defined by their appetite for color, particularly the colors that come from a newborn rainbow which are described as being 'creamy'. The original source of the Rainbow Goblins, Ul de Rico's book illustrates the story of 7 malicious goblins, each representing a specific color, going on a journey to a valley of rainbows in order to devour the colors of the rainbow. The Seven, Primus The Rainbow Goblins by Ul de Rico (Children's Book, 1978) The Seven filled the land with a cold dismay

The rainbow goblins book