Dennis Hollingsworth

AIR.CAT L'entremig #3: Kiko Noguera

AIR.CAT is a summer residency program that I created with old friends Alberto Barcia Fernandéz and Gerard Smulevich in 2019. That summer was a kind of proof on concept and this year was to be the first full iteration...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on September 26, 2020 10:35 PM

El Vibora y RanXerox

I was talking to my neighbor Tony the day about Catalan history and the timeline slew to the years just before and after the dictator Franco transitioned out of power and Spain opened up to the world. Whereas once...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on July 30, 2015 6:27 PM

Spain: The Opening week for "Immanence"

I streamed reports of my recent travel to Spain via Facebook first before this weblog. I wanted my FB audience to be informed of what had happened during and around my opening at Miguel Marcos Gallery... I suppose that since...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on January 31, 2015 11:18 PM

Meanwhile in Tossa...

...Kiko just brought in the wood for his stove for the winter....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on October 24, 2013 8:24 AM

Kiko and Carlos in San Felíu

My doorbell rang. I was trying to sleep off a late night, one of several links of a weeklong chain of reunions with several friends after having returned to Spain, to our house in Tossa de Mar, a former...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on August 20, 2013 6:18 PM

A Very Nice Lighting Strike

I'm reposting a blog entry from 2007 to celebrate a news item from PYS.ORG that helps fill out an abiding theme of mine that draws together aspects both great and small, here's the headline and first paragraph: Russian researchers find...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on May 8, 2013 5:23 PM

Snorkel

Sean Cassidy is visiting us this summer in Tossa!...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on August 6, 2011 11:16 AM

Casa Viejo de Kiko

My friend Kiko (Fransisco Noguera) owns an old house that he is interested in selling. It's perfect for someone who wants to own a charming former fisherman's house in a beach town on the Costa Brava. It's also a...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on June 28, 2011 10:34 AM

For Sale: Kiko's Duplex in Tossa de Mar

Faithful readers of this blog will no doubt remember my friend Kiko, Fransisco Noguera. Kiko is an old friend of mine who lives and works in the small former fishing village of Tossa de Mar in the Costa Brava...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on February 6, 2011 4:26 PM

Patrick's Montesa Comando 175

My friend Patrick Alier works for LS2 in Barcelona as an industrial designer of motorcycle helmets. He recently showed me his restored Montesa Comando 175. The story of the bike goes deep into the history of 20th Century Barcelona,...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on September 7, 2010 2:05 AM

Kiko and Lourdes Get Married

Faithful readers of this blog (hosannas to you, I hoist a drink and toast you marvelous people!) might remember my strong friend Kiko Noguera. (Type his name in the search box in the colophon for the list of links.)...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on August 24, 2010 4:45 AM

Pearlescent

The other night, Kiko asked if I wanted to snorkel out round Cap Tossa at midnight. Hell yea. His daughter Nerea and a friend Lito swam out with us. No moon, the sky splashed with stars, the water was...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on July 19, 2010 6:52 AM

Quicu Kiko

I have always known my friend Francisco as Kiko. I have come to learn that this is a specifically Castellano name, his nickname in Catalan is Kiku. Actually, Kiku is my version spelled phonetically. In Catalan, Kiko is Quicu....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on July 3, 2010 3:20 AM

EU Travel Notes

I've scribbled out a few notes about my recent travels. It's going to be a hive of mistakes, but then blogging is an archive of first drafts by its nature, isn't it?...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on March 4, 2010 6:33 PM

Catch Up

So sorry for the incommunicado. It's time to play catch-up. As some might have surmised, I'm in Tossa. It's going to be a fantastic summer. Stephanie will be with me in a little more than a week. Henry Taylor...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on June 10, 2009 3:57 AM

Cal?ots

My friend Kiko treats us to a feast of cal?ots at his house in Tossa de Mar....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on February 15, 2009 3:08 AM

A Walk to Codolar Cove

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on August 19, 2008 6:09 AM

Codolar

I'm finally in Tossa and into the water after a late night over drinks at Kiko's place with Alberto (pictured), catching up into the wee hours. The water is great, warm and colder below the thermal layer. I haven't...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on June 27, 2008 12:08 PM

Sant Telm 2008

I was talking to my carpenter Ramon Gascon and builder Kiko Noguerra about details concerning some changes that we are making to our place in Tossa de Mar, Spain....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on February 24, 2008 2:35 AM

A Small Renovation

When we left Tossa last September, we met with Kiko and unleashed the hounds of home improvement that will transform our place profoundly. I hope. It will be a small enlargement of the patio and building in a simple...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on February 11, 2008 12:07 AM