My First Vernissage

Around August Vivian and I developed an idea. Why not exhibit our amateur works of art in supertrendyarty Berlin, invite all our friends and their friends and see what happens? ViVi! Get known, get some art appreciation and have fun all the while. ViVi! Because our Berlin connections weren't that good, we ended up doing the one-evening-vernissage-exhibition-finissage in Hamburg; simply because I was getting my hair cut! My hairdresser Folker h. mentioned he had a good friend in Berlin, with arty and location connections ... and I swirled around in my chair and asked him: "Why don't we do it here, at your place?" He spontaneously agreed. The date was swiftly set: 30th October, one day after World Saving(s) Day - there is a difference between saving and having savings, I suppose. Invitations were sent, catering organised etc. It turned out to be a lovely party with friends, nothing sold, but all Flammkuchen (Alsacian pizza) munched and most of the white wine gone.

Vivian and I went to grade school together, as well as painting classes in the street we both lived in, many years ago (1970-74). We ran into one another on the balcony of the apartment I'd just rented in September 2007. She lived next door on the 'penthouse floor' of our respectfully ugly 70's building. First she recognised my sister's dog (having seen him in the neighbourhood; he hasn't been around since 1970 ...), then my sister and finally myself. We've been good friends ever since,  though she's meanwhile moved to Berlin. She paints, as does her partner Christoph (his two paintings are on the back wall; see picture gallery, link 'Fotos'), I collage. That's how we came to place our works all over the hairdresser's saloon on 30th October. View the vid.