Last Saturday, April 9, the time had come: Maarten had prepared extremely well for the 'Power Violence' workshop under the musical guidance of the death metal band GRAF.
Around noon, 14 participants trickled in and immediately, after a (hilarious) instruction from Maarten, started applying their own brilliant text or drawing on canvas. All this with earplugs, because the music could already be heard in the Karel de Stouteplein…
After three hours of utmost concentration (there was no talking to each other because of the earplugs), everyone had laid his or her embroidered egg. These works cannot be seen at Nieuw Charlois, because that was the trophy of the day, but many of Maarten Bel's 125 embroideries can still be seen and purchased. The exhibition will run until May 7, 2022.
Nieuw Charlois is a gallery/shop and a webshop, where work is shown and sold by Rotterdam artists and designers who live and/or work in the Rotterdam neighborhood of Oud Charlois.
