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thursday 14 december
2017 -
Visiting Marco Noris' exhibition
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo01.jpg) | Today I visited Marco Noris' exhibition in the MuMe-museum in La Jonquera in Catalonia.
It was a short - 2 days - trip from Holland but worthwhile the effort as a bordermarker devotee.
To read: an article about Noris' project and the bm-project of Cayetano Martinez.
1. the original article in catalan
3. translated in French
4. translated in Spanish
(with thanks to the multi-lingual Cayetano)
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo02.jpg) | The MuMe-museum is a small museum devoted to the 'Retirada', the retreat of the Spanish republicans
after the Spanish civil war.
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo04.jpg) | Coming directly from the Girona-airport, I have some time left before the museum opens. This is a view towards
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo05.jpg) | the "Fort de Bellegarde",
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo06.jpg) | just on the other side of the French border.
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo07.jpg) | Although
I was warned bij Marco himself, I was a bit disappointed by the size of
the exhibtion and and its position in a backcorner of the museum.
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo08.jpg) | Marco
deserves better, I think. We see only a part of his work
(132 pictures of the 212 he made) and I missed a kind of 'the making
of' and more background-information.
But read more about it on the website of Marco Noris
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It was a very original project: walking along (almost) every
bordermarker between Andorra and the Mediterranean and making a
painting/drawing of each one.
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo12.jpg) | That results in pictures with a great variety: from minimalistic black/white pencil-drawings to dreamy landscapes.
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo13.jpg) | Most of them show the bordermarker itself or
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo14.jpg) | give an impression of the spot itself,
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo15.jpg) | other are impressions of the landscape around the marker.
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo16.jpg) | I liked them a lot. |
![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo17.jpg) | Another example
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo18.jpg) | and another one
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo19.jpg) | and another one
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo20.jpg) | He didn't visit or find every bordermarker, for example bm542,
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo21.jpg) | but is determined to visit the remaining ones,
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![](esfr-pics-trip-photos/esfr-trip-20171214-photo22.jpg) | Probably there will be a second exhibition in Barcelona in 2019.
A
trip next day into the mountains to the border, was cancelled because
of the bad weather and I drove quietly along the coast back to Girona.
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