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Art Rotterdam Opens Next Week with More than 70 Galleries Present

ROTTERDAM.- Abner Preis, Kiki van Eijck, Scholten & Baijings, Wilfried Lentz, Droog Design and D&A Lab. These are only a few of the artists, creative communities, designbureaus and galleries present at the international art fairs Art Rotterdam and Object Rotterdam from 4 to 7 February 2010. “The seventy galleries at Art Rotterdam and twenty design-, crafts and jewellery galleries at Object Rotterdam each show very diverse and special works. Among them are also a few world premières as f.e. the Total Table Design, a unique combination of Dutch tradition and contemporary design” explains Fons Hof, director of both fairs. Abner Preis is a storyteller and will tell his stories, on a one to one basis in a specially created enviroment at a prominent place at the fair. Preis writes amiable short stories that always have a happy end. He does it in such a piercing way that it is nearly a hypnotizing experience. This artist