tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33338086149782840932024-02-07T06:24:31.161+00:00Expeditions and ExhibitionsAn Englishman's Tale of Adventure and Discovery, Giger Art and FriendshipDave Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11478771926239097261noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333808614978284093.post-12872251093777667452013-12-13T23:57:00.003+00:002013-12-14T11:04:12.895+00:00HR Giger in Basel - March 2007<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday, 16<sup>th</sup> of March 2007 and only three
days after my birthday, I embarked on what was my next expedition into
Gigerland and consequently, I considered this trip to be a personal celebratory
treat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little did I know however, whilst best trying to find
comfort in the restrictive space allowed by an Easyjet flight’s seat from
Liverpool to Basel, that events which were to follow would culminate in treats
so far unimagined.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I arrived in Basel on the Friday evening and soon, once
more found myself as being the beneficiary of Switzerland’s public transport
efficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I departed the shuttle bus from the airport at Basel’s
railway station which was only a very short walk away from the hotel I had
chosen for my two nights’ stay in this Swiss city.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This exhibition of HR Giger’s work that I had travelled
to attend, was being held at the privately owned Galerie Hilt under the title
of ‘Spaces’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Galerie Hilt was first opened by its founder, Balz
Hilt, in 1955 on Aeschenvorstadt 43, Basel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1990 saw the opening of Galerie Hilt at its current
location of Freie Strasse 88 and in 1993, Christian Ragni joined the gallery’s
employment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Ten years prior to my visit to Galerie Hilt, HR Giger’s
work had been exhibited at Hilt by Christian Ragni, in 1997, under the title of
‘Projects’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Ten years on from that date and HR Giger’s work was
being exhibited again by Christian Ragni, under the title of ‘Spaces’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">This exhibition featured the commercial sale of HR
Giger’s sculptures, portfolios, limited edition prints, Artist’s edition
prints, digital lithographs and original drawings.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late morning of Saturday, 17<sup>th</sup> of
March, I embarked on the walk from my hotel to discover the exact location of
Galerie Hilt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My hope was to gain access to the exhibition floor
space inside the gallery so as to photograph the works on display of HR Giger
prior to the arrival of the attending crowd of that day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, some initial issues of communication and
understanding existed and it took the sanction of an explanatory phone call
from Carmen Giger to pave the way of passage for my camera and I to enter the
areas of exhibition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once my access was allowed to HR Giger’s exhibition, I
was left with only a limited amount of time to cover the artworks on display
before the doors of Galerie Hilt were held open to the visiting public of that
day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then being the only person at that time with official
permission to photograph, I made my tour as quickly but efficiently as I
possibly could within the exhibition of ‘Spaces’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first used a roll of 35mm Ilford Black & White
film, followed by coverage with 35mm Fuji Colour film to capture what I could
with my hand held Canon EOS.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Some of the images you see here can be found in the
‘Exhibitions’ section of </span><a href="http://www.hrgiger.com/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">www.hrgiger.com</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
and others are shown here for the first time.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A short while later and I had finished photographing,
which then allowed me to enjoy and absorb my surroundings of Giger’s art on
display as well as the small crowd of like minded people whose company I shared
that afternoon at ‘Spaces’.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still remember the atmosphere inside ‘Spaces’ at Hilt
being charged with a vibrancy of affection and affiliation for the works of HR Giger
by the select attendance of those loyal to Giger’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the arrival of early evening soon upon us, I
joined closer company with Alf Battig, Matthias Belz, Sabrina Epifani, André
Faust, Flaminio Gaggioni, Hans Kunz, Markus Lion, Stephan Stucki, Marco Witzig
and of course Carmen and HR Giger, to dine in a nearby restaurant named
‘Noohn’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hours passed by at our table before we said our
farewells, with the time that we shared having served as being the perfect
ending to a very eventful and memorable day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still with adventures and discoveries awaiting their
encounter on this trip to Switzerland, I made my way back to the hotel for my
last night’s stay in Basel.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dave Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11478771926239097261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333808614978284093.post-80376036617664024832013-12-13T18:18:00.001+00:002013-12-15T13:30:56.528+00:00Zurich Trips and The Splendid Coincidence<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the days and weeks leading up to this expedition
to return to Gigerland, arrangements had been made and co-ordinated from New
York by Les Barany to enable me to visit Carmen and HR Giger at their home in
Zurich.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As stated at the beginning of this chapter, all of
these events were taking place only a very short while after my birthday of
2007 so, as you may imagine, with this trip to Zurich now becoming a reality,
there came a sense of further celebration and excitement, despite my increasing
age.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was also whilst making plans at home that suggestions
were made by Hans Kunz and Marco Witzig during our email exchanges, regarding
hotel ideas for me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Out of the choices gained, I decided to book myself
into a hotel by the name of ‘Splendid’, as this seemed suitably named at the
least.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Coupled with advertising itself as having a piano bar
for evening entertainment, my mind was then swayed toward choosing this hotel
for my adventures in Zurich to be based from.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As time would tell, in a very short amount of time from
my arrival at Zurich’s main railway station, the choice I made was in itself a
splendid one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the late afternoon of Sunday, 18<sup>th</sup> of
March, I disembarked the train from Basel into the stretching vastness of
Zurich’s Hauptbahnhof and walked first to one of the many cafés inside the
station’s concourse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Once refreshed, after my morning’s travels, I gathered
myself and my belongings together and made some enquiries as to which direction
I should follow.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had been told that the area of Neiderdorf was only a
short walk from Zurich’s main station and, as it was, after ensuring that I
left the station at the correct exit, I soon found myself on the other side of
the river Limmat with the wheels of my suitcase hobbling over the cobbled
stones of the old streets as I made my way toward Rosengrasse 5.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time I reached the hotel’s front door, I was
feeling the full affect of the transfer of vibrations from the clattering
wheels of my suitcase all the way up and through my now weary arms and
shoulders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Next, to be faced with the challenge of negotiating my
way through a narrow doorway and into an equally narrow, wooden panelled corridor, with my accompanying luggage catching awkwardly on every protruding
corner as we barged our way through, it was by then seeming quite an ordeal
just to reach the reception desk.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With eventual success, I was greeted by a very pleasant
lady who entered the reception area with a wave and a smile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After soon establishing between us that we would only
be able to communicate in the one language, this lady then switched effortlessly
to an evenly paced but precisely spoken English voice and promptly handed me a
registration card to complete.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This piece of paper I had just been given, although
small in size, seemed to have been laden with as many written questions
possible and each question written in four different languages with very little
room to leave any response.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By that time, I had started to recognise the situation
of my weariness from the day’s travels coupled with the seemingly endless
ordeals I was facing just to register my already booked and paid for
accommodation at this hotel, to the point where it had become a topic of
humorous conversation between the lady in reception and I.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within what seemed to be the remaining few square
millimetres of space on this registration card, lay the closing question of the
final category, “For Aliens?” it enquired.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Yes!” I exclaimed, “I am an Alien, and this is for me”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was with some exasperation, I think, and final
admittance to being the stranger in that country and to its customs of overly
detailed hotel guest registration cards, that I called out “Yes” in response to
that final question.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naturally, I saw the immediate coincidence that had
arisen between the question on the registration card and in my being in
Switzerland for my time with HR Giger and his work; so, I thought I might add
some of this content, hopefully with humour, to our conversation in the hotel’s
reception by remarking on this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Actually” I began, “you could say that I may well
qualify as being one of Giger’s aliens.”<br /><br />
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Switzerland and I talked about the exhibition in Basel I had just attended on
the previous day and about my passion for Giger Art.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The words next spoken by this polite and pleasant lady,
from the other side of the hotel’s reception desk, had quite an affect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I am Giger’s ex-wife” she slowly replied, with a
knowing smile that could be heard while she spoke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the point at which I had never been so amazed by a
person’s response to me during the entirety of my life that had passed before
that moment, I was truly amazed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was also totally impressed of course, by the events
and revelations that were taking place in front of me, or indeed that I was
taking part in, the only other participant in fact and without doubt, to my
mind, the greatest beneficiary of all that was occurring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still as yet to have fully emerged from my then state
of mind with a firm grip on the reality of this event; I remember my first
attempt at doing so was to ask this lady her name, “Mia,” she replied, again
with her smile that could be heard as she spoke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point overwhelmed, I asked Mia for
confirmation, just to ensure that what I thought I heard really had been
spoken.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For what I thought necessary to prove the validity of
my own previous claims to Mia, I produced from my luggage a couple of printed
out emails from Les Barany which related to my then current trip to
Switzerland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conversations between Mia and I travelled further as we
discussed events and experiences from past and present, with all of this
hanging from a newly discovered thread of common ground that we found to both
share.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I felt privileged to be told some tales from the
Gigers’ time at Shepperton Studios, while I offered to Mia some viewing of
photographs I had with me from HR Giger’s previous exhibition, in Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon after the pot of coffee that we were drinking had
emptied, I was able to consolidate my thoughts on that afternoon’s remarkable
events. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was whilst alone in my hotel room for the first time
that the pieces were fitted together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On my journey toward visiting HR Giger and Carmen Giger
at their home in Zurich, I had been booked into my hotel room by Mia Bonzanigo,
partner to HR Giger during the days of Alien conception, cinematic ground
breaking and genre pioneering art and design concepts.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This, to me, was an unforgettable occurrence and
coupled with the hotel that all of this took place in being named ‘Splendid’, I
find it unavoidable to say, and to see, that all of this was indeed a ‘Splendid
Coincidence’.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later that evening, I<i> </i>retraced some of my earlier footsteps along one of<i> </i>the old cobbled streets and found what
I was told to be one of the few remaining internet cafés in Zurich, where I sat
and relayed that afternoon’s events and revelations, via email, to Les Barany
in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awakening the next day, it was with a more defined
sense of purpose and with a feeling of empowerment that I began my journeys of
Monday, 19th of March 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not my first of Zurich trips of course, but these
adventures that lay ahead were to allow me benefit gained from personal
invitation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, to begin my discoveries, I travelled first to the
home of one of the world’s most prominent collectors of Giger Art, Marco
Witzig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marco is also one half of the collaboration that gives
us ‘The Giger Work Catalogue’ which was founded in 2007 with Matthias Belz and
is without doubt a most comprehensive and detailed database of HR Giger’s two
dimensional and three dimensional Work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was met at one of Zurich’s suburban railway stations,
by Marco, at exactly the time he had told me that the train would arrive there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walked to Marco’s home and entered what I would
describe as being a Giger collector’s utopia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember that we drank coffee on a sheltered balcony
outside as a shower of very large hail stones descended, between one and two
centimetres in diameter, clattering on all surfaces around us as they landed heavily before we returned to
the collection inside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much to my delight, I was given detailed descriptions
of works by HR Giger and their histories as Marco delivered his own private
seminar in the surroundings of his extensive and amazing collection, within his
home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later that afternoon, it was from Marco’s home that I
dialled a telephone number given to me personally by HR Giger whilst in the
restaurant in Basel only two nights earlier and, with this, Giger and I shared
a short conversation to finalise what would be my arrival at their home of Carmen
and him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Equipped with a street map given to me by Marco to
guide me through the maze of streets in which the Gigers’ home was to be found,
I travelled by train from Marco’s home suburb of Zurich to the Gigers’ home
suburb of Zurich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">It was with what seemed to be considerable ease that I
found my way to the Gigers’ home and was warmly greeted by Carmen at their
door.</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember, vividly, how instantly I was made to feel
so welcomed into their home, by Carmen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walking together through to the kitchen, I was
introduced to Ronald Brandt and to André Faust, both seated at the table and
taking a short break from the work that they were involved in for HR
Giger. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I discovered shortly after this first meeting that
Ronald and André were working together on a previously ordered black resin
Harkonnen Chair, in HR Giger’s atelier. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ronald Brandt had been working for HR Giger since the
early 1990s, under instruction and as the Sculptor who aided to bring Giger’s
two dimensional designs into the physical reality of three dimensional being.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the time of my visit, André Faust was working
alongside Ronald Brandt as his sculpting assistant for the works that were
being brought to life in HR Giger’s atelier, situated behind the Zodiac
Fountain in HR Giger’s garden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first two hours of my visit seemed just to
evaporate, as if time itself no longer existed or registered as the entity by
which we are so often bound, in everyday life.
These were indeed, exceptional days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was during those first two hours that Carmen guided
me through some of the parts of their home; we talked as we walked, pausing at
various locations to discuss what I was being shown, amazed and enthralled by
all that surrounded me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had been told by Carmen that HR Giger was working in his
room; however, it was whilst walking through those seemingly timeless passages
that we all met together, in one part of the house.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poised and dignified, our warm and cordial meeting was
short but affectionate; to be fondly remembered although difficult to
describe. Here we venture into the
realms of my own personal experiences and their affects upon me; but not
necessarily to be revealed or shared in a public domain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Early evening soon arrived and with it came the
generous invitation to stay for dinner. With
acceptance of course, I settled into a seat at the kitchen table where Carmen
and I shared further conversations on Giger Art and its affects upon us both.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A knock on the door and into the kitchen walked Alf
Battig and Flaminio Gaggioni; familiar faces from recent encounters, laden with
cartons of Chinese food for us to share between us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, there was I, on a darkening evening in March 2007,
sharing a table in the house of HR Giger with his wife Carmen and in the
company of truly uniquely talented people; artists and sculptors and lovers of
all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be complimented upon my photographic endeavours on
previously captured exhibitions of Giger’s works, by this small and select
gathering of which I was a part, was probably more than I ever expected, but
with this too came a sense of high achievement and personal satisfaction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally satisfied by the food and wine that we shared
at that table, a small group of us ventured upstairs for our evening’s entertainment
of watching ‘The Blair Witch Project’ together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within the room where we watched that film, there hung
behind one of the leather settees on which we sat, a painting that I could have
only dreamed of viewing for myself, before that time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was while I had previously seen a draft version of
the book ‘The Giger Work Catalogue’ that I found an apparently unfinished
version of “Under the Earth” which instantly caught my eye and attentions; and
on that evening of March 2007, there I was standing before it, dwarfed by its
image and its overwhelming presence of purity and beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inevitably, the evening’s end arrived and I was offered
a spare seat with Alf and Flaminio for the journey by car, returning to
Zurich’s central location and to that of my hotel in Neiderdorf.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the knowledge of my Zurich trip approaching the
end of its time allowed to me, it was with understanding of this aspect that
Carmen had invited me to return to their home on the following day, my last day
in Zurich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Tuesday, 20<sup>th</sup> of March 2007, I walked
away from the location of my ‘Splendid Coincidence’ without being able to wish
a farewell to Mia, as she was not on the premises at the time of my early
departure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I retraced my footsteps for a final time along the
cobbled stones of the old streets of Neiderdorf, as my luggage and I trundled
our way toward Zurich’s main railway station where I deposited the majority of
my luggage before heading once more to the home of the Gigers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcomed again by Carmen into their house, I walked
through to the kitchen where I was offered strong coffee and pear bread for my
morning’s delight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike my visit of the previous evening, I now had the
benefit of Tuesday’s daylight and with this came the opportunity to capture on
celluloid some of my surroundings and the activities therein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, following the suggestion from Carmen, I walked
through a set of glass double doors and made my way through HR Giger’s garden
and into his atelier, found beyond the Zodiac Fountain.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside, were </span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">André Faust</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> and Ronald Brandt, pictured
here working together on the previously ordered black resin Harkonnen Chair of
which I was told during my first meeting, the previous day.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I considered this as being one of the many insights
that I experienced whilst visiting the home and gardens of HR Giger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I found it to be very interesting and educational to
share conversations with Ronald and André about the work they were undertaking
for HR Giger.</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">It was during these conversations that I was informed
of the extent to which Ronald Brandt had been involved in working for HR Giger
over the previous fifteen years or so.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A while later, I ventured back out into the garden and
lost myself and my thoughts as I meandered my way around the railway tracks,
through evergreen tunnels and around statues and structures, all of which had
been designed and crafted by the mind and hands of HR Giger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Pictured below, you will see a small selection from the
images that captured me, whilst spending time in HR Giger’s garden.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was during my time in the garden that HR Giger came
out to meet me. <span style="font-size: small;">This was the most
relaxed and by far the longest period of time that I have ever had the privilege
of sharing with HR Giger. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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explained to me some of his conceptual ideas and the mechanical workings of the
Zodiac Fountain. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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their way around the garden and its structures and through tunnels and out
again, into the early spring sunshine of this wonderful March day.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back through the glass double doors and into the house
again we walked as we made our way toward one of the downstairs rooms.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visually, I think there was just too much information
for me to absorb on that one occasion and it occurred to me then to put down my
camera from around my neck and to noticeably replace the lens cover, indicating
that I would not be taking any further photos at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could see from his facial reaction that Giger himself
was pleased by this action of mine; it appeased me too, to see this, as there
was now acceptance that I was not visiting for the sole purpose of
photographing at every possible occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside this room, I was given explanations and previews
of what was hopefully to become the published version of ‘The Giger Work
Catalogue’. There was a soft covered
draft of what this volume could become, of which we worked our way through its
pages and imagery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, another draft version of a soft covered book and
with this too came more explanations and histories; this volume contained a
vast collection of copies of sketches that had been drawn by HR Giger and
collected together, possibly to become another published body or Works.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So absorbed was I, by all that was around me and all
that was presented to me, that my thoughts of posing for the statutory
‘visitor’s seat’ photo in the aluminium Harkonnen chair and in HR Giger’s
presence, evaporated away, just as did the time that we shared on that monumental
day of memorable
experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so it seemed that the time had come for us both to
move on; Giger had said that it was time for him to return to his work in his
private room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stood, facing each other, locked in the gentlemen’s
handshake and both said, “Good-bye”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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more and into the garden, pausing for a while to assemble my thoughts although,
clearly, that was by no means fully achievable at that precise moment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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myself and my belongings before saying farewell to Ronald and André, from
within HR Giger’s home workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walking slowly through the garden and looking back for
one last glimpse, I entered the house and through to the kitchen where I called
out to Carmen that it was time for me to leave.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My final farewell seemed the most difficult to give,
but it was indeed my time to go.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was only some hours later that my thoughts and emotions
began to settle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My train journey from Zurich to Basel was taken up with
time dedicated to my own scribbling within a note book which I carried with me,
for just that purpose of noting down thoughts and memories, hopefully to never
be forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is actually from some of the pages of that note book
that I have been able to write out this chapter, of which you have just reached
the end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel now that I have experienced so much, in what was
such a short space of time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To have travelled so far and to have expanded so much,
from a solo trip to the HR Giger Museum in Gruyeres to becoming a published
photographer of Exhibitions of Artworks by HR Giger and to have written my
tales that I give to you here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For all of which, I am continually grateful</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These have been my Expeditions and Exhibitions ~ an
Englishman’s tale of adventure and discovery, Giger Art and friendship ~
indeed.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirteen whole long months passed by between my arrival home from the HR Giger Retrospective in Prague and my departure once more, for this next expedition of great adventure, to Vienna in Austria.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no possible presence of any doubt in my mind, that this expedition to Vienna or that this exhibition of Giger Art at the Kunsthaus Wien, were by far my favourites of each, Expeditions and Exhibitions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of this was enjoyed during the latter part of May 2006, with benefit from the warmth during daytime hours that was given to us by the welcoming sunshine which surrounded us all during the days in Vienna.</span><span style="color: #993399;"> </span></div>
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