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NOVEMBER - 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.

HORIZONTAL INSIGHTS 2001-02
 
01 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ARCHITECTS. The building of the Meliá Hotel that I can see from the study, was designed by Antonio Lamela in 1963.
02 - 11 - 03: MADRID: THE OTHER DAY. To be able to go to Iran, L. Escudero has to be wearing the 'chador' in her passport' photograp!!.
03 - 11 - 03: MADRID: MUSIC. The painting I'm working on ('CDV XI' from the Box of Journeys series)  has among others, the music by Astor Piazzolla.
04 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ARRIAZA. Water, water, more water... for their hearts.
05 - 11 - 03: STUTTGART: NIGHT. As Otto Dix's wonderfull paintings in the Kunstgebäude, the night is... sinister.
06 - 11 - 03: STUTTGART: AFTERNOON. The lost of the 'memory sticks' left me more dragged that Duane Hanson's kitchen-maid in the Staatsgalerie...
07 - 11 - 03: STUTTGART: MORNING. ... and as lifeless as Karin Sander's white figures in the shade.
08 - 11 - 03: MADRID: WHAT DID I BUY IN... What did I buy in Stuttgart? well... CHOCOLATE!! (to forget)
09 - 11 - 03: MADRID: THIS SUNDAY EXHIBITION. Nubia: Far too much people to see so few things.
10 - 11 - 03: MADRID: THE OTHER DAY. In the Mercedes Benz Museum in Suttgart, they gave us two cars!. (Neither Javier nor I can drive).
11 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ONCE A YEAR.  ... Fortunatelly the presents for my 55th. birthday  were much more usefull!!
12 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TUNISIA. TOZEUR. The Ramadán nights are full of surprises.
13 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TUNISIA. DOUZ. With the unstoppable advance of the desert , even the palm trees are dying. 
14 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TUNISIA. TOZEUR. Suddenly... a extraordinary thermal bath on the edge of the desert. (The water comes out at 75º) 
15 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TUNISIA. The medina always takes me to another time...
16 - 11 - 03: MADRID: SURPRISE . The flowers that Nieves P. C. sent me the other day  for my 55 th. birthday!.
17 - 11 - 03: MADRID: OWN AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS. Plamen K. bulgarian emigrant working at night. For the benefit of some, the sacrifice of others (as always).
18 - 11 - 03: MADRID: WHAT DID I BUY IN... What did I buy in Tunisia last year? well... a Rose of the Desert to give as a present.

19 - 11 - 03: MADRID: OWN AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS. 'The red apple' could be the title of the work made by a boy of the association  ATEMPACE (Attention to the cerebral paralytic)

20 - 11 - 03: MADRID: The selecction of works for the 2nd. Coronado Prize for Painting & Sculpture was... very entertaining.
21 - 11 - 03: MADRID: BOOK. So many Egyptian mysteries revealed in Terenci Moix 'El arpista ciego'... in his crazy way!!!
22 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY. EDIRNE. We stay in a 16 th. century Caravanserai designed by Sinan.
23 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY. EDIRNE. Sacred words painted on the walls... (that later would appear in the  ' Politically INcorrect? ' and 'Signs of extinction' series).
24 - 11 - 03: MADRID: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY. ISTANBUL. The stranger light that illuminated Santa Sofía  was due to that M.Oliveira was filming a movie there.
25 - 11 - 03: LA CORUÑA: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY. ISTANBUL. Sevin, our guide (a Kurdish origin girl), invited us to eat  fish  with bread (during Ramadan time) in a boat in the Bosphorus. (Very very good!!)
26 - 11 - 03: LA CORUÑA: ONE YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY. ISTANBUL. If the trance of the Derviches in the Teke sufí of Fatih scared me... the worst thing was when I realized that I lost the M.S  with all the pictures!!!
27 - 11 - 03: LA CORUÑA: What would have I done without the help of Loli S. now that my mother is in hospital!
28 - 11 - 03: MADRID: The cold that I got in the hospital in La Coruña didn't prevent me to go to the presentation of Alfredo G. F.'s book ''El hidalgo segundón'
29 - 11 - 03: MADRID: OWN AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS. In the 'II Jornadas Jóvenes Artistas Coronado' the graffiti work shop was guided by J. Pinto (Suso 33, the one of the 'stain' with eyes)
30 - 11 - 03: MADRID: WHAT DID I BUY IN... What did I buy in Turkey last year? well... nothing, but miraculously I recovered all the M.S. (forgotten in the Cervantes Institute)