When there is an opening, there is also a closing. Today, to my regret, the closing of my exhibition here in Beijing had to be effectuated. ‘To my regret’ because for my feelings this month has been much too short and I wouldn’t mind to stay here a bit longer.
The same men who hanged my banners in the beginning came to bring them down. As usual taking down is done much quicker than building up. It was clear they had been thinking about the best way to remove the clamps that fixed the banners to the beams of the roof with a scaffolding as low as possible. A long stick showed to be the best solution (see the photo’s).
They also helped removing the staples with which my oil paintings were pinned to the wooden frames, rolling up the banners with the paintings around them and packaging all for the transport back home.
Suddenly the big exhibition space that had housed my work for the last couple of weeks seemed very empty. But all thing come to an end, also this Beijing art adventure that has been very inspirational. Tomorrow I’ll write for the last time in this weblog of my “Beijing Project” and then also this part of the project can be closed because on Saturday morning we fly back to The Netherlands. But much of a rest is not foreseen then, on Sunday waits the so-called Art and Culture route in my hometown Middelburg that is always held on the first Sunday of the month.