Playlist
Zahara - Refuta
Marea - Los potros del toempo
Peter Raeburn - Recovery
Triangulo de Amor Bizarro - El Hombre del Siglo V
Triangulo de Amor Bizarro - Triangulo de Amor Bizarro
Aitana - La Ultima
Natalia Lacunza - Tiene Que Ser PAra Mi
Esbjorn Svensson - Home.s
Brian Eno - Lux 1 EP
Day three begins...
I brought the old laptop to try and keep this reasonably up to date as it's always a pain to update once back home...
Even just getting the pics up and resized is a huge advantage...
However, I forgot what a pile of shite the old laptop had become and I need to do all the work on this while the EP sleeps on...
Once Annie rises, it is time for breakfast...
While there is ample coffee...
...and kitchen utensitility...
...I must, once again, head out, solo, for breakfast provisions...
...which is no chore whatsoever...
Home again, and breakfasted and out again...
Today we were heading to the river...
...which is down past the cathedral and palace...
...and the University...
We spotted one of the thousands of parakeets in the city...
...as we walked onwards...
...finally reaching the river...
...along the banks of which, we enjoyed a leisurely stroll, taking in the surroundings...
...including the Golden Tower - not made of gold, of course, but where gold was once stored...
An old sailing ship was also moored...
We approached the bridge...
...and crossed it...
...over into Triana...
...making a visit into the market but making no purchases...
Onward into this Sevillian suburb...
...where churros and chocolate were enjoyed...
...before walking on with no real idea of where we were heading...
...but this building looked interesting...
In front of it is a monument to those lost to Covid 19...
The thing itself...
...towers over a shopping mall...
...where, in FNAC, I partook of a 3 CD set of early LPs by Spanish late new wave band, Triangulo de Amor Bizarro - named after the New Order song "Bizarre Love Triangle"...
This map made Seville look a lot more simple to navigate than it is...
An unpictured glass jar was also purchased by Anne...
Then, off we continued, into the sun...
...noting some feral cats on the way...
We ended up at the find of the holiday - we'd been kind of looking for this but in the end just happened upon it in the course of our wandering...
And in we went...
1 Euro 80 each entry price...
...which, in the end, turned out to be amazing...
At first though, we wondered what we'd walked into...
But then...
...the fun started...
Works by 21 Spanish artists, none of whom we had ever heard...
This article from a Spanish Newspaper gives some background (but is, as you might imagine, in Spanish)...
Here's the gallery's website - which, in the fullness of time, will no longer be about what you can see below...
...Anne noted a trouser malfunction in this one...
For this, the original exhibition of the painting allowed viewers to select portions of it to have framed and to take away with them, hence the holes...
Here's what we would have taken of what is left...
Through the windows were what simply looked like trees - but some of them had exhibits alongside, in front of or indeed hanging from them...
There was some excellent work on display...
...including some huge canvases...
This was indeed a great set of spaces in this ex-ceramics factory/monastery...
I noted some Jethro Tull and Velvet Underground references...
Onwards...
Pants were featured...
...twice...
More large works...
...a detail here...
...and these, comprising various panels so that the perspective of the piece changed as you moved around it...
...as noted by the EP...
There was a room full of not exactly black canvases...
...and I particularly liked these four cloud referencing pieces
We were joined by a large group of French schoolchildren as we made our way around...
...admiring more abstraction...
...and an elegant landscape...
Onwards down this corridor...
"Hair" paintings...
Ahem...
A world map, on which countries were represented by the slang term for money...
Two photographs of, presumably, billions of dollars worth of gold...
...and an ever changing index of the value of a kilo of each of the elements on the periodic table...
There were also a number of works based around coal...
And then, back out into the sun - admiring the sky blue sky...
...and the ex-pottery chimneys...
...and the sculptures which seem to have come with the building...
...and which included some jauntily positioned feet...
...and that was it...
Superb...
It's on until March 2024 if you want to go...
But that wasn't all...
In the gardens outside...
...was a top notch cafe for tapas and drinks...
We were very pleased...
A helicopter arrived to take us back to the town centre...
...but left without us...
...and so the long walk back commenced...
Hey, wait for us...
Too late...
We timed our walk from the bus station, from where we will travel to the airport of Friday, back to the apartment, where we enjoyed some downtime...
...and listened to some punky Spanish music...
...before heading out once again...
...into the dusk...
Drinks were enjoyed in a bar showing the Brooklyn Necks beating the LA Lakers...
...before we chose a restaurant in which to end the night...
...choosing Alfalfa 8...
Yum...
We pointed out to the waiter he'd given us 20 Euros too much in change...
Oh how we laughed...
Before walking back home...
...after another good day...
...for coffee and chocolate to round things off...
Highlight of the Day : Unexpected shopping and art...
Today's new music:-
