The day of the exhibition is a very long and stressful day, because of few technical factors : hanging the paintings, setting the whole paintings, everything had to be ready before the T time and finally waiting the guests who come specially for the exhibition: who will come ? do the friends will be there ?, will the journalists come? and what about the stars ? and the final question : How much paintings will i sold ?
Now that the private view is done i can answers all the questions :
Hang up the exhibition.
I was quiet surprised by the car capacity, and was able to cary the 48 canvas to be exhibited. Everything was fitting in the boot, even the big sized canvas of 2 meters x 1 meters. It was the black point to enlight before the exhibition : i wanted to make only one journey between the home and the Backloft. An other work was the preparation for the realisation of the cartels “ready to put”, a big work, specially about sawing the little wooden pieces (i will write more about that, it was well remarked by the audience).
Pictures arrangment.
Showing the pictures is a very entertaining exercise, but had to be done a long time before the opening. I was thinking first about a 360 fidh organisation, like a dive in a aquarium. i finally changed my mind as it was to intense for the eyes and that the oil paintings where relegate in the side room without natural light.
Waiting time.
A bit tired after all that i had deserve a little rest. So i’ve been waiting one hour , a very stressfull time as you don’t know who will come, neither the number of guests. So the next time, i’ll try to finish 5 min before the opening….
The first sale.
Guest are arriving, and it’s really imprtant to welcome each of them. and few minutes after is the first sale happening : the first to pay is the first to get the painting. “Cold Fish” (thanks to Niall) have been the first to be sold of the night. I then get my sold red dots out of my pocket and put one on the cartel. This is a good sign and pressure ease after that. A good occasion to talk with the guests then.
The Comments.
After few chats, the few same questions occurs and the audiance tastes as well. So, accept all the critics and trust the people taste because you don’t have fresh new view of your paintings… then the big answer to the big question “Why do i paint Fishes ?”.
“because Fish is a very basic character : he spent his life swimming, eating, sleeping and make little fishes. A very short memory, he is the perfect candid, nice guy like the human being used to be few millions years ago, before leaving the water for the land and heading toward the space quest. The silent world is and stay a very mysterious world for the mankind. Except the fishing and fish keeping, the man ignore and omme ignore and ruin the richest part of the blue planet.”
TOP 5 pictures.
Few paintings had a very strong impact, here are the few selected by the audience :
Nicolas, your picture was very coveted…Â people have rediscovered the ugliest bridge of Dublin (loopline bridge), the fresco reminds the “where is wally” according to some. And people really liked a different vision of the art-deco shelters, and finally the invitation had a very stunning effect to many of you
The day after.
Sincerely, i didn’t expect to see so much people during the day after. A bit less than the opening, with thoses who weren’t able to come on wednesday, thoses who were invited the evening before. Advertisement during this kind of event is particularily important thes few days before. We have then packed up everything with a lot of extra and very welcome extra hands (Thanks to : Estelle, Floriane, Stuart, Alex, Ainoa, Isabel and anna & roberta).
So now, i had to pack the sold paictures and bring them to their happy new owner… and before the end of this post, i propose you to browse the pictures taken during the exhibition
“The Silent World”…the pictures.
Mes félicitations ! Je vois que ça s’est bien passé. Bisous