> [!languages] [[En Frontera — Presentación|esp]] · [[A la frontera — Presentació|cat]] · [[On the Border — Presentation|eng]] · [[In frontiera — Presentazione|ita]] # Walking On the Border > [!noteinfo] [[../En frontera#ENG - On the Border|On the Border]] · 2017/2018 · [Marco Noris, visual artist - En frontera (On the Border)](https://marconoris.com/on-the-border) · Translation by [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/William Truini|William Truini]] **On the border – August 18, 2017 / September 11, 2017 / 300 km, 25 days, 198 border stones, 209 artworks** Over these past four years I have been working with the [[../../../Themarium/Paisaje/Paisaje|landscape]] as a stage and as a border, but always from the comfort and distance of the studio. The need for direct experience, to put myself out there and confront the real without any filters, is what led me to undertake “On the Border”. The project involved walking the entire Spanish-French border in the county of Girona and making a small oil painting at each of the 198 milestones that mark the limit between the two countries. During the 25 days of journey, I crossed the Pyrenees from 2900 meters up to the sea level. The final result was 209 artworks: 83 oil paintings and 126 mixed medias, all 12x17 cm, postcard size. It wasn't a visual documentation of the milestones (which have already been photographically catalogued), but rather an emotional recording of the environment, according to whatever the geographical and environmental conditions may be. For this reason, the extreme connection with the environment and the present moment that open-air painting permits is fundamental to allowing the project to acquire a strong experiential value. In this sense, the pieces wasn't the objective of the journey: the experience itself was the goal, the experience of making and being the border, the introspection of a long walk in nature, the journey and its difficulties. To paint pieces as if they were markers and to walk joining together points along the the border, as though balancing on that invisible line that divides in two what is one, is to make visible the invisible and thus open up a new setting for memory. <iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/252317059?h=a68e5de51c" width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> ## Credits **Project and production:** [[../../../Info/Marco Noris|Marco Noris]] **Planning:** Amaranta Amati and Marco Noris **Logistical support and mountain guide:** Amaranta Amati **Tutoring:** [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/Alexandra Laudo|Alexandra Laudo]] **3D print:** Patricio Rivera **Walkers:** [[../../../Arte/Artistas/Paula Bruna|Paula Bruna]], Natalia Carminati, Núria Casas, Joana Cervià, Albert Coma, Claudia Godoy, [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/Alexandra Laudo|Alexandra Laudo]], Jordi Martinez-Vilalta, Josep Rubio, Miquel Serrano, [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/William Truini|William Truini]] **Backups and transportation:** Kike Bela, Joana Cervià, Josep Rubio, Marc Ferrer-Dalmau and Alex Nogueras, [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/Roberto Noris|Roberto Noris]] and Ana Lorente **Special thanks to** Amaranta Amati, [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/Alexandra Laudo|Alexandra Laudo]] and the entire jury of [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/Barcelona Producció|Barcelona Producció]]; to Roberto and Ana, Joana Cervià and Josep Rubio, Kike Bela, Patricio Rivera, Alex Nogueras and Marc Ferrer-Dalmau, Cayetano Martínez. **Thanks also to** Josep Estruch and Montserrat Rectoret Blanch, Rebeca Arquero, [[../../../Arte/Artistas/Clara Garí|Clara Garí]] and El Gran Tour, Marc Badia, Xavier Aguilò, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta, Claudia Godoy, Natalia Carminati, [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/William Truini|William Truini]], Nuria Casas, [[../../../Arte/Artistas/Paula Bruna|Paula Bruna]], Albert Coma, Ferrán Latorre, Carmen Sánchez, [[../../../Arte/Artistas/Pere Llobera|Pere Llobera]], Miquel Serrano and Jordi Font del [MUME](http://www.museuexili.cat/), Zuriñe Etxebarria, Jordi Pi and the [Club Excursionista de Gràcia](http://cegracia.cat/), [La Capella](http://lacapella.bcn.cat/), [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/Hangar|Hangar.org]], [[../../../Info/Ecosistema/Piramidón|Piramidón]]. **In collaboration with / en colaboración con:** Museu Memorial de l'Exili [Museu Memorial de l'Exili](https://www.museuexili.cat/ca/) y [Mojones de los Pirineos en la frontera hispanofrancesa (Girona)](https://mojonesdelospirineos.com/) **Project produced with the support of [BCN Producció’17. La Capella, Institute of Culture of Barcelona](https://www.lacapella.barcelona/ca)** #enFrontera #project #marconoris #en-lang #interview #video