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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.

HORIZONTAL INSIGHTS 2001-02
 
01 - 03 - 03: GRAZ: CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF WAR AND UTOPIA. The " M_ARS" exhibition. The art and the war?. The war of the art?. The art of the war?. Gross!.
02 - 03 - 03: MADRID: WHAT DID I BUY IN... What did I buy in Central Europe? well... nothing, but they gave me "the shadow of the tower" in a glass ball.
03 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. Letters, bills, catalogs and among them the magazine Entremuros sent  by C. Llonín
04 - 03 - 03: MADRID: CRUISING CORNER. Puerta del sol - Calle Espoz y Mina (On the way to the Insurance Company)
05 - 03 - 03: MADRID: SUCH A WASTE OF TIME... Making a sculpture that I had to throw away for "structural " problems.
06 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. Because of a blackout I had to take a shower under a candle light... but I liked it
07 - 03 - 03: MADRID: FILM. Although it was sad, I loved Isabel Coixet's film 'Life without me' 
08 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. With soar throat and exhausted being unable to sleep... I finished E. Mendicuti's book  'El ángel descuidado'
09 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. Suddenly a tulip bloomed in the terrace. Don't think I'm a dreamer... because I´m not.
10 - 03 - 03: MADRID: CRUISING CORNER. Calle de la Luna - Calle Cruz Verde. (Toward the police office to pick up the new ID card)
11 - 03 - 03: MADRID: Maybe it's possible an ulcer what's been bothering me lately, or... a gastritis (according to Dr. Leboreiro)
12 - 03 - 03: MADRID: CRUISING CORNER.  Calle San Bernardo - Calle Daoiz. (In a hot 'summer's' day, on the way to the Property Agent's office)
13 - 03 - 03: MADRID: SUCH A WASTE OF TIME . In waiting rooms of doctors and analysts...
14 - 03 - 03: MADRID: It seems like my stomach is now feeling better because dinner at Jesus & Clara's home didn't upset it.
15 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TUNISIA. Hamamet.  The hotel where we were in 1978, no longer exists, but the Villa Sebastián survives.
16 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TUNISIA. Hamamet.  Mark V.J. liked to horse ride on the beach... in 1978
17 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TUNISIA. Souse. In the museum there is an extraordinary Roman mosaic of gladiators (before & now, violence as a show!!)
18 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TUNISIA. Monastir. The cemeteries... are white. (What color will they be in Iraq?)
19 - 03 - 03: MADRID: IN MEMORIAM. The cemeteries... overwhelming, like that of S. Lorenzo and S. José where Nacho's mother was buried the other day.  In Memoriam Carmen R.M.
20 - 03 - 03: MADRID: MY OWN & OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS. The live TV show on the war makes me sick. I'll have to get used to it.
21 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... GALICIA. Vilanova dos Infantes. Before going to Castromao, we climbed to the (recently restored)  homage's tower
22 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... GALICIA. Tuy. Before going to Carlos's exhibition, it was startling to walk through the cathedral while somebody was playing  the organ.
23 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... GALICIA. Tuy. Before continuing our journey to Lugo, we crossed to Portugal (Valença do Miño) to have breakfast.
24 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... GALICIA. Monforte. Long ago, more than 20 relatives (grandparents, uncles and cousins) lived in the house where I was born. Now it is almost empty.
25 - 03 - 03: MADRID: VISIT. From the American chaos and after... 8 years?,  V. di Matio  is back in Madrid.
26 - 03 - 03: MADRID: MY OWN & OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS. From Almería, Ana S. and Pedro G. send me their 'wall journal'  about 'Not to the war'... The art and the war?. The war of the art?
27 - 03 - 03: MADRID: MY OWN & OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS. For Melissa the axis Paris-Madrid has nothing to do with  current politics but  with the heart.
28 - 03 - 03: MADRID: MUSIC. The painting I've just finished ('The Lie' from the Signs of Extintion series)  has among others, music by Eminem. Pure poetry!!!
29 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... HONG KONG. Water and Fire. Our guide So Har was living with 9 relatives in a 43 m² flat.
30 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... HONG KONG. Water and Fire. Incredible that seems, even the scaffoldings of the tallest  buildings are made of bamboo.
31 - 03 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... HONG KONG. Water and Fire.  Inside the temples the incense was oppressive even for me that have lost the sense of smell!!