INSIGHTS
03
MARCH - 2005
366 circular 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 - 03 - 05: MADRID:
WAITING (FOR GODOT). The third way', will it be
there the solution?
02 - 03 - 05: TO THE NORTHWEST:
LA CORUÑA. Before beginning the chat in the '
Museo de Belas Artes', the assistants analyzed the series OTM (On
The Move)
03 - 03 - 05: TO THE NORTHWEST:
LA CORUÑA. The coordinator of the
Museum Talks, Rosario B. could not come to look for me to the airport but...
she offered to take me to the opening of my solo exhibition in Lugo.
04 - 03 - 05: TO THE NORTHWEST:
LUGO: There, there far away where inhabits the memory.
05 - 03 - 05: TO THE NORTHWEST:
LA CORUÑA. There, there far away where the memory inhabits
06 - 03 - 05: MADRID: THIS
SUNDAY EXHIBITION.
In the C.C.
del Conde Duque, people queue
for hours to see ' Egyptian Blues', but to see ' Fast Forward'...
07 - 03 - 05: MADRID: OWN
AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS.
From the mailboxes, the eyes of the women that live in Arriaza control us, some judge us, others
worry for us, most of them observes us... (except those of the ' biggest
bitch')
08 - 03 - 05: MADRID: THE
OTHER DAY. In The Coruña I found the original manuscript of a
short police novel that I wrote when I was 9 years old!
09 - 03 - 05: MADRID: FOUND
OBJET.
Among the rubbish, a flag for all the countries. (In
Calle Ferraz)
10 - 03 - 05: MADRID: ARRIAZA.
In these failling moments... who knows
wat will happen with the Custodian Angels.
11 - 03 - 05: MADRID: ONE
YEAR AGO. In a day like today 192 people died
due to the Islamic terrorists' attack.
12 - 03 - 05: MADRID: ONE
YEAR AGO. On the way to the march
against terrorism all the stores were closed.
13 - 03 - 05: MADRID: MOON'S HIDDEN FACE.
Now that I am recovering of the
food poisoning, I will never again eat zamburiñas neither other mollusks with valves!!!
14 - 03 - 05: MADRID:
LOST (IN THE CITY).
5:02 PM. Underground crossing in Plaza de
España. 
15 - 03 - 05: BARCELONA:
SURVIVING. I don't think that the triangular building that Herzog & Meuron designed
for the Forum 'will died
peacefully'...
16 - 03 - 05: BARCELONA:
SURVIVING. After a Japanese massage in the new spa of the
Arts Hotel ... a walk on the Barcelona I always knew.
17 - 03 - 05: BARCELONA:
SURVIVING. Two years ago my cousin Flora G. left Venezuela forever. We meet
her in front of the Casa Batlló.
18 - 03 - 05: BARCELONA:
SURVIVING. For the past four
months, my nephew Gabriel G. is the new chef of the restaurant Lupino where we
took E. Eiros for lunch. 
19 - 03 - 05: MADRID:
WHAT DID I BUY IN...
What did I buy in Barcelona? well... the catalog of an exhibition of Lluis Graner,
a painter of which my grandfather Rafael G. bought a painting during the 1929
Barcelona International Exhibition and that I still have.
20 - 03 - 05: MADRID:
VISIT.
Pedro,
Marisa & Edita, came over to see a 'In
Memoriam P.L.' (their father, father-in-law and husband respectively)
full with memories.
21 - 03 - 05: MADRID:
MUSIC.
The
painting I am working on, 'CDV XXXI' (in Turin) has (among other) music by ' The
Black Eyed Peas', 'Elephunk' that was downloaded fron Internet!!
22 - 03 - 05: MADRID: THIS
TUESDAY EXHIBITION.
'Anden
16: Heterónimos' in the CC del Conde Duque... left me
indifferent, even the work of David T.
23 - 03 - 05: MADRID: MEETING.
In
the Circulo de BB.AA. with Ana S. and Pedro J.M. They brought me several copies of
Juan Antonio González Iglesias book ' Olímpicas' for which I made the illustrations.
24 - 03 - 05: MADRID: NEARLY
ONE YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY - In Chimera lives Ephaistos (Vulcano) and the fire of its forge.
25 - 03 - 05: MADRID: NEARLY ONE
YEAR AGO IN...
TURKEY - In
Mira the tombs of the Lician kings that are dug in the mountains, reminded me those of Petra.
26 - 03 - 05: MADRID: NEARLY ONE
YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY. In Kalkan, to our guide Semra Ö, the sediments of the Turkish coffee confirmed her misery and they didn't omen
any improvement in her luck.
27 - 03 - 05: MADRID: NEARLY ONE
YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY.
In Ölüdeniz, while we where waiting for the sunset in the sea, a full moon came out behind the mountains that
surround us.
28 - 03 - 05: MADRID: NEARLY ONE
YEAR AGO IN... TURKEY.
In Patara, hundred of turtles had put their eggs the previous
night.
29 - 03 - 05: MADRID: NEARLY ONE
YEAR AGO IN...TURKEY. In
Istanbul only one night in the Pera Palace and taxi ride at dawn
30 - 03 - 05: TURKEY: AGAIN.
ISTAMBUL. What
I liked more of the Marmará Hotel (full packed with tourists) was
the collection of Ottoman dresses that adorned the walls .
31 - 03 - 05: TURKEY: AGAIN.
ISTAMBUL. The natural
orange juice (now everywhere) reminded me those in the sreet of Cairo in the
70's.