WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19
Oh yeah, we are anxious about moving to Coslada. I laid into Karin about the kitchen…and she said she would work out a makeshift countertop and get a coil camping stove. Microwaving a Christmas dinner for Hazel (or us) just isn’t ideal.
The situation in Coslada prompted us to commit to renting an apartment in Milan for three-months. All very nerve-racking, especially since we didn’t hear back from the Airbnb owner in Milan for some time. And…I booked flights to Lisbon and an Airbnb there as well. Fingers crossed everything works out smoothly. The stress is intense.
So we were off to the gym around the corner, part of Chloe’s routine to prepare for Milan.
In the evening, we returned to the Reina Sofia Museum, finished the Dorothea Tanner Exhibition and visited the Luis Camnitzer show. Dorothea Tanner is a weird surrealist painter and sculpture, originally from Illinois who married Max Ernst and lived in Arizona. Fantastic show by Camnitzer – intelligent but emotional, political and interactive.
Camnitzer, a German-born, Uruguayan artist who was at the forefront of 1960s Conceptual Art movement, works with words, ideas and participation and believes art should be democratically and equally experienced between viewer and artist. He creates a reciprocal situation where a viewer interacts as a form of participation and education; and that interaction then informs and educates the artist.
Two rooms stood out: the first about people who were tortured and committed suicide, or were murdered, in Uruguay. Telephone book pages covered the walls. On close examination, we could see some telephone numbers were missing beside names. The other room focused on colonization, by presenting images of a historic Irish Catholic rebellion in Texas where the rebels were all hanged.
I could live in this museum. Visiting it and this quality of exhibition makes me so happy.
