Opening of POST DORDT, Dordrecht
After Thursday’s fiddling around getting things to work, today was time for the opening of POST DORDT. I am not usually so very comfortable at art openings, since I generally don’t know what to say to people and feel a bit disconnected from the “art crowd”. Of course, things take on a slightly different perspective as a participant; at least in this case I could feel a bit more involved in what was going on.
The opening took place during a street festival in Dordrecht, on what will probably be one of the last warm, sunny Saturdays of the year. I couldn’t say that it was exactly packed with people, but there was certainly a decent crowd; it must be said that they were perhaps a little older and less hip than the equivalent in Amsterdam, or back in Glasgow for that matter. I guess this may be because there is no art school in town.
Of course, as can be expected, there were very few folks I know from Amsterdam through for the evening, mostly because of the distance but also because tonight was also packed with openings there. It’s the start of the season for this sort of thing.
Afterwards, we were invited to a Chinese buffet in a house further up the street. I had imagined someone’s living room with a table covered in plastic trays of noodles and tubs of satay sticks, but in fact we were treated to the most delicious and enormous meal of (so I am told) mostly Indonesian food, in a house which looked like it must have belonged to the richest family in Dordrecht at some point. Beer and wine were laid on in similarly generous quantities, and even the plastic chairs provided for the little garden party out the back were pretty posh. It seems like there is plenty money in this town.
So, that’s one result from my two years’ of study achieved. Hopefully not too long until the next show.
