LIMA.- “We did 4000 kilometers in six days“, and in each speed bump or donkey hill we suffered a little,” Daniel Pagano, gallerist and architect from Rosario, recently arrived in Lima, tells LA NACION. In the Peruvian capital the 11th edition of the Pinta PArC fair y His gallery, Subsuelo, is one of the 14 participating Argentinian galleries. But he and his partner, Daniel Andrino, were the only ones who They decided to travel by car, loaded with works by María Crosetti, Beatriz Trepat, Abel Rodríguez and Belén Rimini.
With those photographs, ceramics, drawings and paintings framed with glass They traveled through Santa Fe, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Salta, Jujuy and Catamarca. They took turns driving with her friend María Cecilia Roggero, whom they nicknamed “Carola Casini” by the character played by Araceli González in the novel from the late ’90s.
Their eagerness to step on the accelerator was of no use, however, when they crossed the mountain range through the Jama Pass, at 4,200 meters high. They didn’t take into account that cars are also targeted. “The owner of a hostel explained to us that, when it slows down, we have to leave it in neutral and accelerate to decarbonize it,” they say now, already relaxed with their stand set up at Casa Prado.
Another unexpected experience was the “sample” that they had to improvise around the Kangoo, when the Peruvian immigration authorities began to investigate what those “works of art” they had declared were. After seven hours of paperwork and paying a bond, they managed to get their passports stamped. “The works found new viewers, in an area that has nothing to do with commerce,” Andrino recalls with amusement. “Previously we had done it by plane – adds Pagano – and it is much simpler.”
Why did they decide to embark on such an adventure, then? “A little to decompress the effect of the fair, which is always very chaotic and dizzying. This transfer proposes other times. It is a kind of vacation before and after the fair. That was a bit, crazy,” explains the latter, who has the memory of a similar trip tattooed: the image of the Volkswagen van in which he traveled with a group of friends to Brasilia, in 2008. Thanks to that experience, he was able to get to know to Oscar Niemeyer and see how, at 102 years old, he smoked cigars that Fidel Castro had given him.
He recovered some of that spirit in recent days, on the road, while listening to playlists with music by Louta, Charly García and Fito Páez. Although they registered everything in your own Instagram account, @rosarinos_por_el_mundo, decided to do the route in an “analog” way. That is, without prior reservations in the places where they would stay.
“That allowed us to have more flexibility –Adds Pagano-, see for ourselves where we could take a shower, rest and then hit the road again the next day. We were able to do little tourism, but We toured the Nazca Lines and visited the Huacachina Lagoon in Ica, Peru. It was a great achievement to arrive with all the works intact”.