16 mei 2019
After a morning of finishing touches, a press-conference by directors Artemis Potamianou and Michalis Argyrouat the press makes a round. At 19.00 h the fair is opened for invited guests and even before the crowd starts streaming in. The amount of visitors is twice that of last year which is what you would expect seeing people strolling by.
EX-MÊKH’s Ellen Rodenberg has been asked to manage the children’s educational department and instruct the volunteers for workshops, tours of the fair and preparing the workshop space. That takes a lot of her time after EX-MÊKH’S booth is finished
An impression of the day, with first the installation by EX-MÊKH as it was finished:
EX-MÊKH: Equilibrium
The blue Sculptures are done by Maarten Schepers, the abstract painting is done by Ellen Rodenberg and anything with text is done by kees Koomen
A more close impression
Lots of words
and colours
The small paintings are from the diaries
as are the shards from the past that Kees Koomen wrote
We were satisfied with a colourfull, spacious installation
The press conference with left Michalis Argyrou and on the right Artemis Potamianou
Ellen Rodenberg is instructing the volunteers, Artemis’ angels!
Even in the afternoon IS-Projects is finishing their presentation of New York Abstractionism
The space where the kids workshops are beïng held is beïng prepared. EX-MÊKH’s Maarten Schepers is happy to construct the exhibiting sculpture
When the actual opening starts we notice that EX-MÊH’s network has grown considerably, people from earlier editions come to say hello.
There are a number of performances during the evening, this one is done by Joëlle Montech, and Elvira Andrikogiannopoulou at Association theatre Dionysos et AppollonIt is called “Tango against Photo”
This gives you an impression of the crowd in the beginning of the opening.
Then, next to EX-MÊKH, Lucia Bricco starts “The morning, the morning, the morning”
She comes from behind a curtain on which an urban surrounding has been drawn
She sits down in front of it, everything is blue
A pot stands next to her
She starts washing herself with the earth that is inside the pot
It litterally looks like washing
In between Karen Linnenkohl walks by as “Mirror Head”
And Lucia Bricco continues
Lies straight along a line of earth underneath the drawing
She tries to move the drawing by blowing against it
And stands up and takes coffee, morning at last!
At the end of the day EX-MÊKH was tired and satisfied with the reactions on the works.
