Exhibition of Extopoint in Ruinen 2010 / Ruinen - 荷兰extopoint艺术家群体2010年群展
As a member of the artists’ group of Extopoint Holland, I was invited to take a part in the last exhibition for the year of 2010 held in Ruinen.
The opening ceremony was held at 3:00 PM and I was there together with my friend Jan. Agnes (a member of Extopoint as well as one of the organizers of the exhibition) made a brief opening speech and thereafter the exhibition started in music and wines.
I drank all together 5 glasses of wine, not because that I was keen on drinking, but because that I was attracted and impressed by the music and songs as well as the humorous performance given by an old Dutch musician invited to perform on the exhibition. A friend told me that the old musician used to be a businessman. But since he loved music so much that he started his music life soon after he got retired. Some of the music and songs he performed seemed to be familiar to me, while many of others could only be aware and understood by those who have experienced the changing period of 60’s to 70’s during which the European and the American music changed from classic to popular ones. The amiability, humor and affinity shown by the old man attracted me so much that had made me like him at once. At the same time I had an idea in mind too, that is to invite him to perform on the opening ceremony for my coming personal exhibition late Oct. So I discussed it with his wife for a while, and she was quite pleased to accept. Both of them seemed to be quite happy to be invited.
According to Dutch traffic regulation, drivers can moderate drinking, which means taking one glass of wine or a bottle of beer is allowed. So for traffic safety, Jan had to act as the driver on our way back home as fortunately he had drunk only two glasses of wine.
