NEW WRITING: On arteonline.arq.br

SAIJ, Isabel

2003 is past, a short come back on arteonline.arq.br 

a site I like to visit again and again:
- elevation plan as a map of this museum's map
- openness, attraction to the difference
- critical and funny creations
- care for details, humor to shift the seriousness of a subject... still serious
- freedoms, in a multitude of esthetics
- place of meetings : exchanges, effervescence of ideas, winks.

Mixture of images and texts, ludic interactivity, pleasure, unexpected events.
Needing to be surprised in this garden of labyrinths, looking for my favorite drug:
laugh!

Topographical concept as an invitation to glance over,
friendly email as an invitation card,
virtual acceptance, small report

01.04.2004 - for the new year:
virtual dinner at the "Museum of essential and beyond that"

A wonderful evening in Rio de Janeiro.
Particular honor: to be among the guests of Regina Célia Pinto.

I arrive at 8 p.m.
The hall! Shall I describe?
-marmor, doric columns, stuck, statues, fountains, an atrium,...
-exotic and aquatic plants,
-discreet lighting, soft ambience music
At the far end: the huge staircases (red carpet, banister... Cinecittà!)
Heading for the penthouse, I use the elevator...because of the view!
The glazed sides allow almost a 360° view: on the bay of Rio
and on the different floors of the museum.

Arriving on the terrace, I get a warm welcome.
I go to the bar. Pablo P. doesn't seem to be so hungry.
I saw him by accident 2 hours before, near the beach, eating with Jean-Paul Gaultier
(because of the shirt) some delightful fishes (cook: Joeser).
I take successively: a "rivera spritzer" + a"bikini" + a "perfect long"- Yes !
(prepared by Muriel and Santiago ),
in addition "piñons appetizers" by Lia.

Many people there, talking together: Judith, Marcelo, Marcello, Conceição,
Isabel "Yto", David, Eric, Clemente.
Whisper of coziness, stealthy paces, decoration with an aquatic touch.
The cocktails: excellent! Conversations are lulling me, I speak too,
I feel good.

As continuation :
a turtle soap? No thanks!
Perhaps a "miget" with French wine?
Paulo suggest to me a great vintage (for the best diet, the one you never
begin with)

On a photo, French dish, typical drawings of a faience from Quimper - France.
You're right Martha!
Nothing more on my menu : secret! Failure of memory, not at all!
Just a nice torpor...

For tomorrow, may be a picnic... Thanks Brad, it will be all right with the diet
of the day after.

Suddenly, a shock: a weird loud cry!
The cake of Carlos?
It comes from the bathroom!
Any lost curator raving, alone in front of the micro?
Vegetal encounter...
A sharp stinging detail...
A cactus perhaps?

Actually authentic!
I tell the truth, don't I?!

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