About exhibition ' take 5 ' 2010 / 关于5人画展 2010
In the year of 2007, I was invited to hold a solo exhibition on a quite large scale in the art exhibition department of the municipal hospital in Meppel. That exhibition was very successful. Early this year, in trust by Art Committee of the hospital, an exhibition for ‘ taken 5 ‘ was organized by the artist Peter van der Veen, which would last from summer to autumn this year. I was again pleased to become one of the five invited aritists.
As a matter of fact, the five of us are quite familiar with each other. And we have had already several co-exhibitions before. But this time since all of us attached great importance to this exhibition, we have had two meetings accordingly. We exchanged opinions on the quantity, the quality as well as the price for the exhibits and also discussed about the plan regarding to the opening ceremony. The first meeting was held at Jan’s home. Since every one had his own viewpoint and opinion, the atmosphere was quite warm. The room was full of the smoke of cigarettes and the smell of beer. During the meeting, Mark took his leave earlier since he had something to do at home. And the meeting had become later a cocktail party of the remaining four. At last Robert was considered to be drunk as he kept on talking to himself in the toilet and fell down to the ground twice from his chair. I did drink a lot too, maybe about eight or nine cans of beer with half a liter in weight. But I was awake after all. It is said that when Peter, Robert and I had left, Jan opened again another can of beer …
Anyway in the time afterwards, many plans had been agreed by all of us.. So we gathered together again at Peter’s home and had a photo taken for the group in the garden. The photo was printed on the invitation card for the exhibition. And in the photo, everyone had a brilliant smile.
The opening ceremony of the exhibition is in sunday 11th July .
Planning for an exhibition at Jan’s home
Sunny smile - the invitation