Murakami - Adriaan was first (again)

A folow up on Nico's Murakami post on April 11:

http://adriaanisalive.blogspot.com/2009/04/two-buddies-take-takashi-murakami.html

Murakami and Adriaan, Spiegelgracht, Amsterdam, 2007 (photo: Nico Delaive)

Sent to us by Nico Delaive:
In 1997: Adriaan showed Takashi Murakami as one of the first galleries outside Japan.

Murakami and Adriaan, Spiegelgracht, Amsterdam, 2007 (photo: Nico Delaive)

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Comment by Adriaanisalive:
Note again Adriaan's clear plastic Maastricht bag.
No: not the same one as in some former pictures. He had 100s of them ;-)

Here's the story:
Adriaan at one point organized a rather successfull side-fair when the Tefaf Maastricht artfair was on. (These are the plastic bags from his fair. Just like he did in 1984 (with Nico) outside the Amsterdam Artfair. See the post of April 13).
Tefaf was powerful enough to convince the city of Maastricht not to let such a side-fair happen again ...Can you imagine this in Miami or NewYork ...

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COMMENTS:

Pearl said...
Oh! Now I know the full story of the bags! I admit that I felt a little guilty for not having bought him a more chic tote, but now I know that bag was a trophy from the rebellion!
April 17, 2009 6:21 PM