G.F. travel book

From April 2008, nine people who has crossed G.F. life somehow where invited to send material evidences of their meetings.

This material was the base of a performance entitled

10x10 instant notebooks,

which objective was to create 10 similar artist books during one day period, trying to reconstruct each of these experiences.

The performance took place the 15th July 2008 at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo.

The result can be seen at the following pictures.

1

the greenwich travel


black
salt
islands
by
the
meridian

2

satantango

no me importa

lo que has hecho

lo que háces ni

lo que harás

3

en route

"J'aurait aimé me reposer sur l'obscurité, prendre appui sur elle"

J.L.B.

4

duplicated rock star

a drip

a drop

the end of the tale

5

mala leche

...

6

desert landscape

don't worry

don't hurry

chicken curry

7

dark light land

quiet

night

of

quiet

stars

8

gracias por el fuego

"... para que el aire me seque los ojos."

M. B.

9

water bridge falls

"...he had been everywhere and I mean to the ends of the earths and back, though never to Staten Island, or Coney Island, or Roosvelt Island , or Governor's Island , or Rilker's Island, and I been to all them ..."

excepert from Doane Diaries

10

vênus en piel de oveja

oscuro como la noche

caliente como el infierno

Giuseppe Fiennes

Short Biography

Giuseppe Fiennes was born in 1964, in Iceland, from English father and Italian mother. He got back to England at the age of 5, but the island strong and wild landscape as marked him for lifetime. At the age of 14, he was given by his grand mother a National Geographic World Atlas that influenced him to give up school and go for his first great travel: “The Greenwich Travel”. He wandered by France and south England between 49º and 51º parallels, around Greenwich Meridian. The diaries of this first travel are lost.

From this moment on G. F. travels around the world, leaving nothing but a path of letters from the places he has lived in.

From 1998 to 2000 he stayed in Brazil. From 1999 he started a corresponnce with Mrs. Aurélia von Anken, that used to present herself as Dorotéia. It is not possible to know yet how they have met. There are evidences of a small trip to China during this period.

He got back to Brazil in 2008 for a 10 days trip at the southeast mountains, from 5th to 14th June.

Some of this letters are available at www.gandaletters.blogspot.com