Jesùs Rafael Soto

Jesùs Rafael Soto: vision en movimiento al PROA Fundacion en Buenos Aires

1st stop Rosario

1st stop Rosario: second biggest town in Argentina, lounging along the River Parana', it serves up a heap of tasty empanadas. When ordering empanadas, the are served with specific borders to distinguish between the types (i.e. carne suave, carne picante, humita, etc). Diego and I spent four full days in Rosario and visited two museums, one post modern minimalist in a cool pastel building, and then the Museo Castagnino, where lots of rad Argentine painters are featured such as Berni and Leon Ferrari. The nights lit up with Diego's cousin Andres who took us to "Madam", an 80's boliche disco club, and "Dixon", a salsa / cumbia villera club.
Saturday in Rosario was spent enjoying an asado with family and friends. Diego made the big engagement announcement but they already knew because of a leak via Lisa, a cousin living in Andorra). Later that evening, we went to Teatro El Circulo and saw Mayumana, an Israeli dance troupe who performed a wild mix of percussion with their bodies and dance with objects and sounds. We stayed at Andres's apartment, not far from the two pedestrian streets: Cordoba and San Martin -- and also very close to the neighborhood club: Luna.

hamburguesa con jamon y queso

Sunrise on a lovely comfy "Aguila Dorada" bus heading north. Today is Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006. Yesterday was a national holiday because of San Martin, a spanish man who led the independence struggle for Argentina chile and Peru in 1816. The Chileans don't love him as much as the Argentineans. The sun is rising over the Chaco region of Northern Argentina where we are now. It is very flat and there are lots of horses. We're passing lots of real small towns. They say Chaco is one of the poorest regions of Argentina. It was known as the "cotton capital of Argentina" but now the main crop is soy because of the high demand of export to Asia.

We are still in the Santa Fe Province, where Rosario is located along the River Parana'. There are lots of cows. I'm traveling with Diego, my fiancé. This land is very fertile. En Rosario, se dice "re" muchas veces antes de los adjectivos. Quiere decir "muy", "fully" o "molto". Por ejemplo, !re canchero! very cool.

the queen of the non-sequitir

••••
the queen of the non-sequitur
amounts to nothing
in the secular world
pawning her gaudy jewels
to get in good with the bishop of fortune
she swerves her head
when she sees full length mirrors
can't stand the taste

wall-to-wall carpeting
under the urn where her former lover lounges
in the living room
of the after life
he can no longer
defend himself
from her baffling
interior design
....
2003