Page 13 - Aruba Today
P. 13
LOCAL A13
Friday 18 September 2015
At ‘Rondom Oranje’ at MartiniPlaza in Groningen:
Commissioner of the King Receives a Painting of Aruban Artist
ORANJESTAD/GRONINGEN all parts of our Kingdom, verse artworks from Jabu mous Dutch artist living in
– Friday, September 11, the five from the tropical part a castle in Midwolda – who
Commissioner of the King, in the Caribbean and five Arnell (Sint Maarten/Am- showed some paintings re-
drs. Max van den Berg, re- from Holland, the cold part lated to the theme.
alized the opening of the in Europe. sterdam), Bikkel (Curacao/ For the beautiful picture by
exhibition ‘Rondom Oran- Also workshops of the par- Armando Goedgedrag,
je’ (Around Orange), for in- ticipating artists will be of- Rotterdam), Fokke P. de inspired by water (main
vited guests, in the theater fered at Martiniplaza. theme of our King), a pic-
lounge of MartiniPlaza, re- The artworks inspired by Boer (Apeldoorn), Ewoud ture titled ‘North Shore Em-
lated to the closure of the the factor ‘Orange’ that erald’ was handed to the
celebration of 200 years of unites - in every sense of Broeksma (Groningen), Flo- manager Martin Hoek by
our Kingdom. the word - symbolize the the secretary of API, miss.
Before his opening speech, union between people of rian Cats (Leeuwarden), Helen Francis.
mr. van den Berg received different ancestry and na- ‘Rondom Oranje’ can be
a painting from the presi- ture in the Dutch Kingdom. Armando Goedgedrag admired from September
dent of Art Promotion Inter- ‘Rondom Oranje’ has a 14 to October 30 in the the-
national foundation in be- special character with di- (Aruba), Jannes Koetsier ater lounge of MartiniPlaza
half of API and the eleven in Groningen. For more
participating artists. (Groningen), Jan Kruize information and/or open-
The commissionary agreed ing times check: https://
that the painting of king (Groningen), Gustave
Willem Alexander from the
participant from Aruba, Nouel (Aruba/Deventer)
Gustave Nouel, also cura-
tor and artistic advisor for en Hellouisa Maria (Bo-
this exhibition, will form part
of the art collection of the naire/Assendelft).
County Hall of Groningen.
As part of the opening Besides the art of these www.200jaarkoninkrijk.nl/
performance, a painting content/expositie-rondom-
of the young professional artists there is once more oranje, or www.martinipla-
painter Jannes Koetsier, za.nl/evenementen.q
from Groningen, also in- a guest-artist, this time
spired by the King, was re-
vealed.
Next the curator presented
the Commissioner, togeth-
er with the Minister Plenipo-
tenciary of St. Martin, mrs.
Josiane Fleming-Artsen
to the artists present that
could give an explanation
of their art.
All parts of the Kingdom
were present, as the par-
ticipating artists come from
Maya Wildevuur - a fa-
