Meeting in the weekends - About exhibition < Take 5 > Jan. 2011 / 周末小聚，关于2011年1月的画展 - Take 5
An exhibition for works of Peter van der Veen, Jan van Os, Mark van der Stay, Robert and mine of course, was ready again. This was the first exhibition of our five for this year.
As matter of fact, there existed great difference among the five of us, both in style of work and in artistic point of views. Normally artists could hardly get along with each other well unless they had same or similar ideas on creation or on concept. And to us, it was rather hard to find anything in common professionally that could bind us together to show as an artist group. So the only thing left might probably be the friendship in between.
I remembered that before our summer exhibition last year, we really felt a headache to get a proposition for the exhibition. Finally we accepted Jan’s idea to name it as “Take 5”. Jan loved whiskey and music, and “take 5” was a famous jazz song that Jan remembered.
In English the word of take 5 also meant to rest for 5 minutes. We made such a choice for our exhibition also because we wish that our works might make people relaxed both on spirit and soul.
Since the summer exhibition “Take 5” was quite successful, we soon got an invitation to hold another exhibition for works of our five at Raadhuis Hoogeveen in the city of Hoogeveen , lasting from Jan. to Feb.2011. This exhibition was titled as “Take 5” again.
If possible we all wished that “Take 5” might continue still, for the friendship between us.
we met at Robert's home
Four of us were at the meeting except Mark who was always busy with his children
The meeting lasted from 20:00 till midnight, during which we’d spent more time in drinking then discussing details about the exhibition