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PERSONAGES
OF OLD MONTEVIDEO
Graphic
serial Folder. Cassapueblo
Editions, 1999
TRAVELLING
BACK TO YESTERDAY
Wherever
I go during my trips, I really have fun visiting the
market places, one of my great passions.
To
know how people live and how they express themselves.
I
love to be carried by the scented air from the popular
cooking, by the smell of the harvest and by the perfume of
the streets and the color of vegetables and fruits, the
screeches and screaming of the animals on sale or by the
market criers music.
They
represent such an authentic energycal window that I cannot
do nothing else but invade them and become participant of
their dynamic force.
I
could never rub out from my mind, the Santana Fair, in
Bahia, Brazil, with its endless storage sheds line and its
exotic merchants.
Meetings
of workers where the producer places the results of their
efforts between proposals and demands.
The
unforgettable “Marchč aux pouces” in Paris,
woke up a nostalgic feeling with their most exotic and
antique objects.
The
market places in Tahiti, Montevideo, Maldonado, Asunción,
Lima, Fidji or New Guinea also attracted my curiousity.
The
strange pleasure of visiting them with empty hands but
curious enough to enjoy
and excite the delightful climate of their offers.
This
drawings show the living creatures of the markets and
fairs in Old Montevideo.
To
those who broke the silence of the growing city with the
crying wares echoeing in their stoned or earth streets.
Every
traveller, history teller, conqueror or expeditioneer who
arrived to our land couldn´t refuse to notice their
leading position.
Thanks
to them, we can know about their jobs and clothes through
the drawings made during that period.
At
the end of another period, I give my apologize to all
these pioneers who inspired the drawings and living
stories included in my folder.
The
magic carpet on which I mounted to ride along a
fantastic return flight towards yesterday trying to
recapture and refresh
that Montevidean moment when the city initiated
its first steps with the lively music of the street
merchants.
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