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The cover is already that of a travel diary, like the ones used by the artist. A Season in Calcutta includes not only the the final drawings, but also the preliminary sketches the artist made for them. Lluïsot has been travelling all over the world since 1999, and has put together more than thirty still unpublished travel diaries. His Calcutta diary is the first to reach the public. "One day I just took off,
I wanted to travel, see the world. I was ready to take it all in, or
to be completely taken in by it. Ever since I was born, I had dreamed
of having the guts to do it. I cast off and without a previous plan
and a year ahead of me, I bough a ticket for Bangkok. I ended up writing
and drawing eight travel diaries, doing six large-format paintings in
a lost island and fifty-six colour drawings in every country I visited,
and Calcutta gave me the 45 drawings in this bound documentary. In terms
of lived experience, this year alone surpasses everything I'd lived
through in the previous 37 years of my life put together. It is as if
a normal, every-day person like me had had the life he was expected
to live compressed into a single year. (...)" |
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