Elizabeth
Maes
On 31 August 1989 street, number 115, the tourist in Chisinau will find the National Museum of Fine Arts.
The building appears to be under renovation, but the museum is nevertheless open to the public. Go to the side entrance and take the stairs to the second floor. There you will find an office, go into the office and ask for a woman named Elizabeth.
She will open the door to the museum for you and turn on the lights.
The contemporary part of the museum consists of paintings of one Moldovan painter. (see picture).
After you are done Elizabeth will go out with you and walk you to another side entrance on Pushkin Street. In the meantime she will explain to you that the government doesn’t have money to finish the renovation.
In the other part of the museum you will find a guard reading an old book. The guard is a lady in her sixties. She will turn on the lights. The collection consists of a Nicolas Maes, a Brueghel and some religious artworks from Romania and Russia.
After you leave the guard will be alone again for days, maybe weeks or months passing time reading her yellowed book.
The guard is a highlight of the exhibition. And I don’t mean to debunk Nicolas Maes.
In the old USSR you could find a more or less hidden museum of contemporary art in most big cities.
Kishinev - Chisinau
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Bernard
Did you use to paint? Are you intererested in buying one of my paintings? Not that I have one of these paintings in my apartment in NY, but for you I would go back to my old habits and produce something delightful.Bernard
Jan Hoet thought that Arnon's painting were worth keeping as a souvenir.Girl on the picture
Arnon,the girl on that painting looks like you without glasses and make-up on.
You can always send me a sample. Maybe we could trade old habits. Shall I send a sample of mine to Johannes? Can the man deal with that burden?
@Mieke
Jan Hoet is art himself. If I am not mistaken, in the early seventies, he once visited one of our parties in the Prinsenhof in Ghent. I can assure you, even some local present Hell’s Angels looked like pussies compared to his wild and exuberant behaviour.
most important job
Jan Hoet recently said in Rotterdam that the guard has the most important job of the museum, more important than the museumdirector or the curator. Beside this he stated that the appearence of an artwork is never lying, in contrast with the appearence of an artist. I think the guard has a 'in between' position.Dear Eva P
"....he stated that the appearence of an artwork is never lying, in contrast with the appearence of an artist. "
a nice thought.
yours,
Eric
arnon
but you dont like the picture, do you?I smell the need of money!
