There is less than a week for Christmas at the moment of writing this. Normally my house here in Kuala Lumpur is neatly decorated with a Christmas tree and beautiful X-mas decs, some are homemade and some are fabulous designer decorations from Georg Jensen in Denmark. This year I have had no time at all… I have been preparing my up and coming solo exhibition.
It all started with a cancellation of what should have been my exhibition during the month of December at Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur. My art show was going to be part of their Christmas tree lighting event for the VIP customers but for some reason or other, outside my control, it was cancelled. However, instead they offered me a bigger event dedicated to my art with a better location in the hotel. It was definitely an offer I could not refuse. It also meant that I have been working very hard ever since because now it’s a full on solo event with all that entails.
And typically me, what was an art exhibition has now developed into a mini festival with a lot of associated activities. The art exhibition is called “Colours of Life. A Celebration of Life, Art and Culture” and it will portray different aspects of life as well as my art.
To me colour is energy… and energy is life. With the title “Colours of Life” it quickly became obvious to me that as well as showing different aspects of life through my art I could do that through associated events too. Because it’s all about the energy… and now we will be displaying events with fabulous energies in them!
I believe that art should be available to all walks of life and not only hang in exclusive galleries. That is why I am so happy to work with Hotel Equatorial… a lot of people will walk past my art and receive a little of the colour energy that I am here to give. I believe that more people will be touched by my art in a hotel than in a gallery.
That’s how the idea of a mini festival came about. There are now more than 15 different happenings taking place during the period of my exhibition from 5 January to 6 February 2012. Check out the programme elsewhere on my web site.
An auspicious event
The whole event is quite auspicious to me and I’m sure it was all meant to be. Now listen to this:
At my first talk with the hotel I discovered that the event would be covering the Chinese New Year period. Of course I felt proud to be Danish and exhibiting over Chinese New Year in Kuala Lumpur of course but when I started to look into the Chinese New Year of the Water Dragon I discovered (unbeknown to me but surely not the Chinese) that the New Year energies starts already starts on 4th of February. That’s when I will be putting up the paintings for the show!
Studying the Dragon further I discovered that the Dragon’s favorite colours is yellow. The latest four paintings that I had created for the exhibition was primarily… you guessed it… yellow!
In the Chinese horoscope I am a Tiger and looking more into the relationship between the Dragon and the Tiger I find… that they are very good friends!
So here we go: my next solo exhibition is called “Colours of Life. A Celebration of Life, Art and Culture” and it is taking place at the main lobby of Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur from 5 January to 6 February 2012.
Check more details here: http://www.donvang.com/?p=346