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Colombia


1999-2000

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Colombia
1999-2000

Cartagena

“Cartagena once gave me a sense of liberty, or rather, of my availability… This, Cartagena gave me, with immense generosity.” Alvaro Mutis.

Abstracts

"Today, apparently four types of people can be identified in Colombia: the more or less wealthy who close their eyes in fear, including those land owners whose management methods recall the good old feudal school; those who kill, those who die; and the 'little' people, hostages of terror, who flee the countryside and shelter in slums, which produce nothing but hoards of little killers… Who kills whom, and for what reason? It’s a mess. Catholic gold has given way to Protestant dollars, and immorality no longer bothers to take on the slightest layer of ideological varnish. 'Everything is perverted in our era…'

Cartagena has, it seems, once again emerged from the scrum on top. At least as far as a happy tourist like myself could observe. In the streets of the city center and even the neighboring roads, you can amble along without risking coming head to head with a hit man on a scooter going about his business, or getting beaten up because he doesn’t take a liking to you. But I came across Mick Jagger calmly taking a stroll, the son of the Shah of Iran, and Madeleine Allbright and her full set of sidekicks, come to negotiate who knows what deal that would have been unwise to settle in Bogota."

Extract from Carnets de voyage 2, 2000, Éditions Gallimard

Works

Colombia 3706
La casa del primero, 2000

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache and silkscreen printing on paper
42 x 132 cm

Colombia 3582
Petite arabe de Colombie, 2000

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 50 cm

Colombia 3574
Lucia de Carthagena, 2000

Colombia
Gouache on silkscreen printing
42 x 33 cm

Colombia 3653
Santa Maria Madre de Dios, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache on paper
30 x 30 cm

Colombia 3556
Alvaro Mutis, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache and typed poem on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3558
Alvaro Mutis à sa machine à écrire, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 50 cm

Colombia 3700
Remparts de Carthagène, 1999

Colombie
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3586
San Fernando, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3568
Don Blas de Lezo, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3702
Port de Carthagène, 1999

Colombia
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3564
Boca Grande, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3704
Filles de Carthagène, 1999

Colombia
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3560
Barrio de Los Hosteros, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3570
La Cathédrale de San Pedro Claver, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

Colombia 3576
Yoland, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

Colombia 3572
Lady Diana, 1999

Cartagena, Colombie
Gouache and pencil on paper
42 x 33 cm

Books

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