As you may have noticed Benjami has mentioned the Brontë sisters on several occasions.
I looked them up on wikipedia to double check that I had said the correct names, to find out about Anne. I am afraid to admit that I was not aware of the existence of the 3rd sister Anne or her book "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" . If you have a little curiosity to what the sisters looked like click on the below wikipedia link I came across with an interesting painting of the 3 sisters painted by their brother Branwell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bront%C3%AB_family
I went round to Benjami's today with the intension of going out with him to paint in the street. He wanted to paint a building, la typical modernist architecture façade. So we headed out. We went by car because Benjami decided that it would be easier to find the building if we went by car. We stopped on Diputacion corner of Passeig de Gracia where we found a parking space. Because the building is also chosen depending on parking availabiltiy! Benjami got out took a look at the large building on the corner and started to feel quite unwell due to all the pollen from the plane trees. So we then decided to go down to the sea front to see if the sea air would make him fell better. Unfortunately by the time we got to the Barceloneta it was lunch time and Benjami had to go and have lunch with Nuri and I had to go home to my boys.
Watch Sunday 17th of April 2011:
http://blip.tv/file/5033058
domingo, 17 de abril de 2011
Benjami paints a very sad elephant. Sat 16th of April 2011
Watch Benjami paint this sad elephant whilst he listens to the music of the album of Pedro Almadovar's film "habla con ella"
http://archerdoc.blip.tv/file/5031663/
http://archerdoc.blip.tv/file/5031663/
Lets see Benjami in his studio Saturday 16th of April
Here Benjami changes his trinkets and paintings around in his studio. It is a green day.
http://archerdoc.blip.tv/file/5031372/
http://archerdoc.blip.tv/file/5031372/
Live creation of a painting for the coming up exhibition in Lerida in May
As I mentioned in my previous post, I am terribly sorry but instead of getting shorter my videos seem to be getting longer. I think that fortunately or unfortunately I have a very contradictory personality. I can't help it. But the minute I get told not to do something, I feel a deep necessity to do the complete opposite. I believe this is quite a commun human behavior, is it not?
Anyway maybe people should watch the videos with a different point of you. Instead of wanting to quickly be entertained when somebody else has done all the editing for you, searched for what is interesting for you to hear and condensed it down.
Well what I like is the reality and spontaniety of my films with Benjami.
Let us take for example: going around to a friends or family members house to pay a visit. You would sit together chatting in the living room and maybe many a time you may have wanted to own a magical remote control and fast forward the other persons because they could be drowning on and on. But we can't. And that is what I like about my videos with Benjami and yes maybe sometimes he can be a real chatter box.
But I can't believe that the TV programs with high viewing rates are reality shows such as: Big Brother and in my opinion hardly anybody really ever has anything interesting to say.
I am sure that when people who are not his friends, acquaintances and family get to know of: Benjami, his work, his different styles and personalities he will also have a large fan club, who will enjoy the length of the videos.
Here you can see Benjami paint a painting for an exhibition coming up in Lleida in May. The theme of the exhibition is "Lleida sensual". Enjoy the long video:
http://archerdoc.blip.tv/file/5022935/
Anyway maybe people should watch the videos with a different point of you. Instead of wanting to quickly be entertained when somebody else has done all the editing for you, searched for what is interesting for you to hear and condensed it down.
Well what I like is the reality and spontaniety of my films with Benjami.
Let us take for example: going around to a friends or family members house to pay a visit. You would sit together chatting in the living room and maybe many a time you may have wanted to own a magical remote control and fast forward the other persons because they could be drowning on and on. But we can't. And that is what I like about my videos with Benjami and yes maybe sometimes he can be a real chatter box.
But I can't believe that the TV programs with high viewing rates are reality shows such as: Big Brother and in my opinion hardly anybody really ever has anything interesting to say.
I am sure that when people who are not his friends, acquaintances and family get to know of: Benjami, his work, his different styles and personalities he will also have a large fan club, who will enjoy the length of the videos.
Here you can see Benjami paint a painting for an exhibition coming up in Lleida in May. The theme of the exhibition is "Lleida sensual". Enjoy the long video:
http://archerdoc.blip.tv/file/5022935/
Wednesday 13th of April 2011
I AM SORRY BUT IT IS IN MY NATURE TO BE MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY.
I HATE TO BE GIVEN CRITICAL ADVICE. SO SORRY TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE DONE SO, BY TELLING US THAT THE CLIPS I UP LOAD ARE TOO LONG. THEY ARE PROBABLY LONG, BUT I LIKE THEM.
My idea is for people who like me, enjoy Benjami's company as well as his art and want to listen to all the interesting things he has to say, as well as have your spirit lifted by his good humour and often eccentric behavior; they can do so.
If you find the clips too long and boring well, this is INTERNET and you have a fast forward button.
But in years to come I am sure that you will enjoy a little half an hour in Benjami's studio, because he is not an ordinary artist. For me he is an EXTRAORDINARY artist with so many interests, hobbies and he can be a source of inspiration to a lot of people who think that life is uninteresting when one has reached the age of retirement.
So you will have to excuse me but the videos have become longer.
http://archerdoc.blip.tv/file/5021009/
I HATE TO BE GIVEN CRITICAL ADVICE. SO SORRY TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE DONE SO, BY TELLING US THAT THE CLIPS I UP LOAD ARE TOO LONG. THEY ARE PROBABLY LONG, BUT I LIKE THEM.
My idea is for people who like me, enjoy Benjami's company as well as his art and want to listen to all the interesting things he has to say, as well as have your spirit lifted by his good humour and often eccentric behavior; they can do so.
If you find the clips too long and boring well, this is INTERNET and you have a fast forward button.
But in years to come I am sure that you will enjoy a little half an hour in Benjami's studio, because he is not an ordinary artist. For me he is an EXTRAORDINARY artist with so many interests, hobbies and he can be a source of inspiration to a lot of people who think that life is uninteresting when one has reached the age of retirement.
So you will have to excuse me but the videos have become longer.
http://archerdoc.blip.tv/file/5021009/
Lleida
Benjami is preparing an exhibition that will once again take place in the city of Lleida, Catalonia.The theme of the exhibition is."Lleida sensual". I have been trying to follow Benjami as much as possible to see the evolution of the paintings he is specifically creating for the exhibition.
Please find to follow a cut and paste of the history of Lleida for those of you who may be interested:
An amalgam of people and civilizations has provided Lleida with a rich and restless culture that can be found in the current modern city.
The Ilergetes was an Iberian community that appeared in the middle of the 6th century BC. They used to place their settlements on high places and thus, it is easy to imagine Iltrida on the top of the Sovereign Hill.
Their most relevant leaders were Indivil and Mandoni, who defended the Ilergetes against the Carthaginians and Romans. Once they were defeated, the city changed its name to Ilerda in the year 205 AD. Roman chronicles describe a walled city with a stone bridge that constituted a municipality (founded in the time of Emperor Augustus) with fertile orchards, which at the end of the 3rd century, were destroyed by barbarian Germanic tribes.
Around 716 - 719, Lleida was occupied by the Saracens and the following four centuries of coexistence marked the city character.
In October 1149, the city surrendered to the troops of Ramon Berenguer IV and Ermengol VI d'Urgell. In 1150 Carta Pobla was granted to the city.
In 1300 Jaume II founded the famous Estudi General, which was the only centre of advanced studies of the Crown of Aragon until the end of the 15th century.
Since 1382 the municipal government seat was in the ancient palace of the Sanaüjas, a significant example of civil Romanesque art. From that moment onwards, the building was called Palau de la Paeria. The name Paeria is due to the privilege that Jaume I granted in 1264 and that substituted the former Roman consulate with Paeria as a form of municipal government.
The 15th century meant a period full of great architectural works that have lasted till the present day. An example is Santa Maria Hospital, which has housed Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs since its foundation in 1942.
The two following centuries were characterised by a recession, worsened by wars and diseases that ended up in Guerra dels Segadors (the uprising of the Catalan servile peasants between 1640 and 1652). The city was damaged and Felipe V found Lleida in ruins.
Finally, with the decree of Nueva Planta in 1714, Lleida lost its liberties, the municipal government regime of Paeria and its University. Seu Vella, closed to worship since 1797, became military barracks.
In the 18th century the city regained its image and dimension; in the reign of Carlos III Catedral Nova was built. The new ideas of Enlightenment gave rise to such remarkable figures as Blondel and Baró de Maials. They changed the appearance of the city according to its role as the capital city of the province and applied the new agricultural studies to crops. At the beginning of the 19th century Lleida endured a new setback, the Napoleonic invasion.
Once again the city had to recover from the disasters of wars and a new period started from the second half of the 19th century.
The railway line reached the city in 1860; in 1864 Camps Elisis Gardens were open and in 1865 architect Josep Fontseré began to design the first modern city plan.
The beginning of the 20th century meant the reassertion of the Catalan State with Mancomunitat of Catalonia. The Spanish Civil War (1936 -1939) destroyed the city again. Then, in 1940, with only 40,000 inhabitants, everybody's effort was needed to achieve urban, commercial and demographic growth.
Nowadays the city of Lleida, with about 115,000 inhabitants, has updated its infrastructures to link the different neighbourhoods to the city centre thanks to the building of Pont Nou (bridge) in 1973, Pont Universitat in 1993, Pont Pardinyes in 1995 and the new footbridge in 1997.
In 1999 the old slaughterhouse became Teatre de l'Escorxador. Moreover, in the year 2000 the inside night lighting of Seu Vella was installed and the restoration of Porta dels Fillols was finished, the Blondel footbridge and the recently open footbridge in Avinguda del Segre.
Urban expansion and the creation of new facilities have shaped the beginning of the 21st century. The opening of the Motoring Museum -Roda Roda-, the recovery of the Templar castle of Gardeny and the opening of the new fruit and vegetable market are some of the most notable events so far this new century, while the AVE high-speed train, the Arts Centre in the historic building of La Panera and the future construction of the Business and Convention Centre (B&CC) is the most important features of 2004.
Please find to follow a cut and paste of the history of Lleida for those of you who may be interested:
An amalgam of people and civilizations has provided Lleida with a rich and restless culture that can be found in the current modern city.
The Ilergetes was an Iberian community that appeared in the middle of the 6th century BC. They used to place their settlements on high places and thus, it is easy to imagine Iltrida on the top of the Sovereign Hill.
Their most relevant leaders were Indivil and Mandoni, who defended the Ilergetes against the Carthaginians and Romans. Once they were defeated, the city changed its name to Ilerda in the year 205 AD. Roman chronicles describe a walled city with a stone bridge that constituted a municipality (founded in the time of Emperor Augustus) with fertile orchards, which at the end of the 3rd century, were destroyed by barbarian Germanic tribes.
Around 716 - 719, Lleida was occupied by the Saracens and the following four centuries of coexistence marked the city character.
In October 1149, the city surrendered to the troops of Ramon Berenguer IV and Ermengol VI d'Urgell. In 1150 Carta Pobla was granted to the city.
In 1300 Jaume II founded the famous Estudi General, which was the only centre of advanced studies of the Crown of Aragon until the end of the 15th century.
Since 1382 the municipal government seat was in the ancient palace of the Sanaüjas, a significant example of civil Romanesque art. From that moment onwards, the building was called Palau de la Paeria. The name Paeria is due to the privilege that Jaume I granted in 1264 and that substituted the former Roman consulate with Paeria as a form of municipal government.
The 15th century meant a period full of great architectural works that have lasted till the present day. An example is Santa Maria Hospital, which has housed Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs since its foundation in 1942.
The two following centuries were characterised by a recession, worsened by wars and diseases that ended up in Guerra dels Segadors (the uprising of the Catalan servile peasants between 1640 and 1652). The city was damaged and Felipe V found Lleida in ruins.
Finally, with the decree of Nueva Planta in 1714, Lleida lost its liberties, the municipal government regime of Paeria and its University. Seu Vella, closed to worship since 1797, became military barracks.
In the 18th century the city regained its image and dimension; in the reign of Carlos III Catedral Nova was built. The new ideas of Enlightenment gave rise to such remarkable figures as Blondel and Baró de Maials. They changed the appearance of the city according to its role as the capital city of the province and applied the new agricultural studies to crops. At the beginning of the 19th century Lleida endured a new setback, the Napoleonic invasion.
Once again the city had to recover from the disasters of wars and a new period started from the second half of the 19th century.
The railway line reached the city in 1860; in 1864 Camps Elisis Gardens were open and in 1865 architect Josep Fontseré began to design the first modern city plan.
The beginning of the 20th century meant the reassertion of the Catalan State with Mancomunitat of Catalonia. The Spanish Civil War (1936 -1939) destroyed the city again. Then, in 1940, with only 40,000 inhabitants, everybody's effort was needed to achieve urban, commercial and demographic growth.
Nowadays the city of Lleida, with about 115,000 inhabitants, has updated its infrastructures to link the different neighbourhoods to the city centre thanks to the building of Pont Nou (bridge) in 1973, Pont Universitat in 1993, Pont Pardinyes in 1995 and the new footbridge in 1997.
In 1999 the old slaughterhouse became Teatre de l'Escorxador. Moreover, in the year 2000 the inside night lighting of Seu Vella was installed and the restoration of Porta dels Fillols was finished, the Blondel footbridge and the recently open footbridge in Avinguda del Segre.
Urban expansion and the creation of new facilities have shaped the beginning of the 21st century. The opening of the Motoring Museum -Roda Roda-, the recovery of the Templar castle of Gardeny and the opening of the new fruit and vegetable market are some of the most notable events so far this new century, while the AVE high-speed train, the Arts Centre in the historic building of La Panera and the future construction of the Business and Convention Centre (B&CC) is the most important features of 2004.
viernes, 8 de abril de 2011
8th of April Red elephant & taxi in Barcelona
Today I was on my way to my son's school to see his teacher. When Benjamì called me and asked me what I was doing cause he felt like painting something. I only had half an hour but I rushed round to his studio and filmed him once again painting one of his elephants.
The other day I told Benjamì that he reminded me of the Karlos Arguiñano of painting. Karlos Arguiñano is a well loved chef/personality who has his won restaurant in the Basque Country and a television show. He his famous for always adding a few leaves of parsley to all his recipes.
I love spending time with Benjamì. I hope you all enjoy him as much as me.
miércoles, 6 de abril de 2011
reTOUSpective - Benjamì's exhibition in Lerida
Benajmì exhibition in el Centre d' Estudis Illerdencs
martes, 5 de abril de 2011
viernes, 1 de abril de 2011
Benjamì arranges his studio on the 1st of April 2011
Today is the 1st of April and I went round to see Benjamí. I filmed him explaining to me his arrangement of objects and paintings specially for the 1st of April.
Benjamí then invited me to a delicious health lunch consisting of green beans and potatoes followed by dover sole and sauteed leeks.
Enjoy the tour:
Benjami draws Sam says on aprons
Benjamí draws Sam says: on aprons that I have had made specially.
I bought the fabrik and accessories and a local charity called Prisbe, are making up sample aprons, tea towels and oven gloves to print Sam says merchandising to raise money for the Sam and Ruby charity.
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