Un Punado de Flechas

One night, during his stay in Buenos Aires for the filming of his film Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola told María Gainza: «The artist comes into the world with a quiver that contains a limited number of golden arrows. He can shoot all his arrows as a young man, or shoot them as an adult, or even as an old man. He can also launch them little by little, spaced out over the years. That would be ideal, but you already know that the ideal is the enemy of the good. In addition to Coppola, these pages show a watercolor by Cézanne stolen from a museum in Buenos Aires, a walk through Thoreau's Walden Pond, Bodhi Wind's enigmatic paintings in Californian swimming pools that appeared in the no less enigmatic Three Women by Robert Altman, the oil paintings by the Catalan painter Nicolás Rubió in which he evoked the French town where the Spanish Civil War took place, a cursed painting by Titian hidden in the Mexican city of Tzintzuntzan...