WHY WRITING A BLOG In 1972, I decided to study Visual Art and Art Education. So, in 2022, I will celebrate 50 years of visual art as part of my daily life. I think it was about ten years ago when Dhiradj Ramsamoedj said to me: “Actually you are a Read more…
Erwin de Vries and me Written by Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi Once upon a time, many years ago, I met Erwin de Vries for the first time in my life. I think I was already twenty, but I looked like a girl of fourteen being very slender, not to say Read more…
The pillars of Sidewalk Café and Restaurant ‘t VAT Written by Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi My husband Jan van Charante studied in Amsterdam for years. After his studies, when he was back in Suriname, he was missing the so-called ‘Brown Cafes’ of the metropole. In 1980 he was preparing to Read more…
A traveling OAS Art exhibition 2020 – 2023 Written by Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi In 2017, I met Atreyee Gupta at Readytex Art Gallery in Paramaribo, Suriname. Readytex Art Gallery is the gallery I am affiliated to. Atreyee came as an assistant curator for an OAS exhibition that would travel Read more…