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Chinese European Art Ineke Gudmundsson, from the Netherlands, and the Chinese European Art Center at Xiamen University Center Seeing as how it was the Dutch who opened up Xiamen way back when, its appropriate that they are in the forefront of opening Xiamen yet again as they help Chinese Laonei and European Laowai better understand one another’s culture and arts.

Ms. Ineke Gudmundsson iniated the Art Center in 1999 as a joint venture with Xiamen University Art College. Works by well respected European artists have included Teun Hock’s painted photographs (“stills of the theater of life”), JCJ Vanderheyden’s “fragments of reality,” Pieter Holstein’s drawings, Marcel Kalksma’s handmade prints, Arni Gudmundsson’s sculptures, as well as the works of Chinese artists like Xie Lai, Wu Yiming and Wen Bin.

When I visited the art center this morning, Jean Bernard Koeman was busy, drill in hand, setting up his exhibit entitled, “Mental Architecture (a travel survival kit), which included photos, Chinese characters, and oddly designed cubicles (designed, he said, to fit well in planes, and to form a sphere when stacked). It was a bit too much architecture for my mental capacities (or lack of them), but I enjoyed the photos, and his infectious enthusiasm. I did ask one person why Xiamen Univ. doesn’t have an American-Chinese Center and they said it was because we Americans don’t have any culture. That isn’t true. I’ve had cultures many times; I’ve used them to make yogurt.

Exhibits change frequently, so check out the latest offerings at their website, or phone. Tel: 218-0850, 218-5860
website: http://www.ceac99.com E-mail: ceac99@public.xm.fj.cn
Center Hours: Wed. thru Sunday, 10 AM – 12 Noon, 3 – 5 PM