INSIGHTS
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FEBRUARY - 2003
366 vertical insights in the private life of RGF for a better understanding of his work by the 'accidental navigator'. This project will be made with one year + a day of images and texts.
01 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ARRIAZA. The
Goya Awards show was unbearable (Far too many good intentions and family greetings). I
couldn't stand to watch it 'til the end!!!
02 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ARRIAZA. Phil Stern's
picture of James Dean for the month of February in this year's calendar is...
03 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
MUSIC.
The painting I'm working on (Politically INcorrect? V) has among others, music by Mozart: Requiem.
04 - 02 - 03: MADRID: (SPACE) DECAY. In these
times of uncertainty, even the stars fall from the sky. (In the bathroom ceiling)
05 - 02 - 03: MADRID: MY
OWN & OTHER PEOPLE'S
WARS. The 'fight' to keep the original decoration
in the entrance hall of the
building is near the end.
06 - 02 - 03: MADRID: (BODY) DECAY. What a
satisfaction! to enter aching and to leave as brand new... (from the Phisiotherapist)
07 - 02 - 03: TO THE SOUTH: RONDA.
More then twenty years ago Javier made a study on the Arabian
baths in Spain. The one in Ronda remains in good state
08 - 02 - 03: TO THE SOUTH: LA
LINEA. The exhibition ' Order, Disorder and
Habit' was opened in the Museum of the Isthmus, (now without Manolo
Alés).
09 - 02 - 03: TO
THE SOUTH: LA LINEA. I arrived to the
Spanish border with Gibraltar and... they didn't allow me to go
through because my ID had expired ( 20 days ago)
10 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ARRIAZA. No,
they are not dancing steps , they are the marks for the perspectives in ' Politically
INcorrect? VI'
11 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
CRUISING
CORNER. Plaza del Callao
- Calle Preciados. (On the way to the supermarket)
12 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
MY
OWN & OTHER PEOPLE'S
WARS. I will never again donate another work for
those presumed solidarity acts that benefit only a few.
13 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ONE YEAR AGO IN... PRAGUE (AFTER WAITING SO MANY YEARS ). The
Koruna building has nothing to do with Coruña in Galicia.
14 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ONE YEAR AGO IN... PRAGUE (AFTER WAITING SO MANY YEARS ). The cubist architecture (peculiar of
Prague), a discovery. 
15 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ONE YEAR AGO IN... PRAGUE (AFTER WAITING SO MANY YEARS ). Wenceslao
Square. The police trebled the number of demonstrators (anarchists vs. fascists) and us in between then...
16 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ONE YEAR AGO IN... PRAGUE (AFTER WAITING SO MANY YEARS ). Extraordinary Pleçnik and not
only in the Castle!!
17 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ONE YEAR AGO IN... PRAGUE (AFTER WAITING SO MANY YEARS ). 8,00
am. at Charles Bridge. Surprise for the early rising tourist that tries to discourage a
(possible) suicide. 
18 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
ONE YEAR AGO IN... PRAGUE (AFTER WAITING SO MANY YEARS ). A few months later the rains would come...
19 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
VISIT. Last
week, Bea P. and Arturo C. came to ARCO ... and the Peace Parade.
20 - 02 - 03: MADRID:
VISIT. Paz
F. & José Luis G. B. also came to ARCO.
21 - 02 - 03: MADRID. Salamandria,
the chair & Ana S. ( on her way to Almería we met at Chamartín
railway station)
22 - 02 - 03: BASEL: CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF WAR AND UTOPIA.
Five architects for
Vitra's factory: F.O. Gehry, N. Grimshaw, A. Siza, T. Ando and... Saha Hadid
whose extraordinary building is utopia made real.
23 - 02 - 03: BASEL: CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF WAR AND
UTOPIA.
I don't know
whether yesterday night's earthquake was felt in the Beyeler Foundation (5.5 degrees)
24 - 02 - 03: LUCERN: CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF WAR AND
UTOPIA. In
" The Hotel" designed by Jean Nouvel, " The sheltering sky" was the scene in the
ceiling of Javier's room and "Matador " in mine.
25 - 02 - 03: ZERMAT: CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF WAR AND
UTOPIA. Unforgettable the dawn in the Matterhorn (4478 m.) and the
half hour hanging in a funicular because of the strong wind!!
26 - 02 - 03: ZERMAT: CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF WAR AND
UTOPIA.
In the Gornergrat (3131 m.) the birds
(like in Hitchcock's movie or in Brueguel's painting "The triumph of
Death") surrounded us...
27 - 02 - 03: ZERMAT: CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF WAR AND
UTOPIA. I believe that
as I can't ski I've missed a lot of extraordinary sensations... and there is no
much time left.
28 - 02 - 03:
GRAZ: CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF WAR AND
UTOPIA. The "Latente
Utopien" exhibition. Experiments in contemporary architecture for an uncertain future.