An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a
moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas
(1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was
advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to
record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.
Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the
nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America.
However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction
weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind
Rugendas' trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve
in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific
vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the
mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true
inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the
chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out
onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would
come only at an immense pricean almost monstrously exorbitant price
that would ultimately challenge his drawing and force him to create
a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid
absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and
irreversibly and explosively marks him for life.
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