Albania, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, United Kingdom, United States.

Actually, I thought it would have been a longer list. Soon I can add Lebanon. I just booked the flights to Beirut where I'm going to be artist-in-residence at Xanadu from mid October to mid December and we are planning to do a small presentation of my works, too.

After living few days in the art world in Gijón, I've got my feet back on the ground again. This week I've been painting - not works of art but the walls of my patio. Ironically, they are red like the paintings I've done this year. If my red monochrome paintings triumph in the Carnegie Art Award and I become famous and wealthy artist, I'll never paint our walls again. I'd prefer to paint canvases in the studio and hire a professional painter for the walls. Or maybe I could add the red monochrome walls in my portfolio and paint the walls of art collectors?

Gijón has been fun. I've been treated here as an art star dining in the best seafood restaurants and giving interviews to the local media. I'm staying at my gallerist Angela's place with an amazing sea view. Before yesterday's inaugural reception, I put my swimming trunks on, went down by the lift, crossed the street and relaxed in the warm ocean. Now it's nine o'clock on a beautiful Sunday morning. I came home around 5am but I can't sleep more. Ana, Angela's maid is still in bed and I don't know how to prepare coffee in this kitchen. Maybe I just sit at the terrace watching the waves.

I don't wanna be another wave in the ocean
I am a rock, not just another grain of sand

It's a shipping day and I hope it's not ship ping pong. Ping pong refers to something that is bouncing back and forth. When the works leave the studio, I hope they are not coming back but sold.

The red monochromes 57 Varieties are finally of to Stockholm for the Carnegie Art Award and then I'm wrapping up paintings for my solo show at AVAart, Gijón, Asturias. I rent a van and drive there tomorrow.

I've never been to Gijón and I know nothing about the town but I like it very much. The reason for my sympathy is a football match known in Finland as the Miracle of Gijón. Last spring Finland shocked the world champion Spain with a 1-1 draw. It was the most amazing moment of the humble Finnish football history. I wish to be as strong as the Finnish national football team.

I've enjoyed these three weeks of vacation on Finland but now I'm itching for action. On Monday, we fly back to Spain and on Tuesday I bubble wrap paintings for my solo show Respetando los derechos humanos nunca saldremos de la crisis at Espacio AVAart in Gijón, Asturias, opening next Saturday. I'm going to rent a van and drive with my works to the Northern Spain. The logistics are uncomplicated when the show is only 500km from the studio. Unfortunately, I rarely exhibit in the counrty where I live. It's not easy to be an immigrant artist in Spain.