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 | Today I visited Marco Noris' exhibition in the MuMe-museum in La Jonquera in Catalonia. It was a short - 2 days - trip from Holland but worthwhile the effort as a bordermarker devotee. To read: an article about Noris' project and the bm-project of Cayetano Martinez. 1. the original article in catalan 3. translated in French 4. translated in Spanish (with thanks to the multi-lingual Cayetano) |
 | The MuMe-museum is a small museum devoted to the 'Retirada', the retreat of the Spanish republicans after the Spanish civil war. |
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 | Coming directly from the Girona-airport, I have some time left before the museum opens. This is a view towards |
 | the "Fort de Bellegarde", |
 | just on the other side of the French border. |
 | Although
I was warned bij Marco himself, I was a bit disappointed by the size of
the exhibtion and and its position in a backcorner of the museum. |
 | Marco
deserves better, I think. We see only a part of his work
(132 pictures of the 212 he made) and I missed a kind of 'the making
of' and more background-information. But read more about it on the website of Marco Noris |
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 It was a very original project: walking along (almost) every bordermarker between Andorra and the Mediterranean and making a painting/drawing of each one. | |
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 | That results in pictures with a great variety: from minimalistic black/white pencil-drawings to dreamy landscapes. |
 | Most of them show the bordermarker itself or |
 | give an impression of the spot itself, |
 | other are impressions of the landscape around the marker. |
 | I liked them a lot. |
 | Another example |
 | and another one |
 | and another one |
 | He didn't visit or find every bordermarker, for example bm542, |
 | but is determined to visit the remaining ones, |
 | Probably there will be a second exhibition in Barcelona in 2019. A trip next day into the mountains to the border, was cancelled because of the bad weather and I drove quietly along the coast back to Girona. |
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