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Kerepakupai-Meru: journey to angel falls by the painter Giampiero Podesta

Author Carlo Francou, Giampiero Podesta
Publisher Spuyten Duyvil Books, Hobo Jungle Press
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ISBN / ASIN0982994516
ISBN-139780982994511
Sales Rank6,702,964
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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The noise turns into a roar, a thunder, a incessant explosion, a reflection of life. Angel Falls, the wildest waterfall in the world, is there below my feet and now I can see the water flow distinctly, and the energy of the current that bends the thin grass blades forcefully and then drifts away between a rock and a tree trunk fallen from who knows where. Then that selfsame water leaves the ground and falls into the green of a luxuriant forest incessantly.

The meeting between a journalist-geologist and a painter reminds the latter of one of his adventurous journeys to the highest waterfall in the world, hidden, like a precious emerald, in the heart of the Venezuelan rain forest, thanks to some notes in a creased notebook kept for more than forty years.

A dangerous, initiation journey full of perils overcome that was to take Giampiero Podesa  to live an unrepeatable experience in the land of the Yanomami Indios. From exciting Caracas to mysterious Prague, from the refined cultural salons in Paris and Rome to the high-tech skyscrapers in New York, Angel Falls Kerepakupai-meru in the native language was to reappear many times with its ancestral charm, sealing the most significant moments in the life of the painter who was to turn it into an icon ready to become, with its evocative power and its enchanting fold, a living presence, beyond space and time.