Art meets Art

Last August 16, 2014 I was invited to bartend in one event which was held at the Powerplant mall. This event was dubbed as Art + Magazine, focus on the arts: art in transit.

This was a month long art exhibit that featured different mediums of art like canvass, sculpture and painting. As I checked the venue, I was impressed with the artworks. The exhibit was situated in the mall that has a good traffic flow and people would really stop by and take a look at the creations of these well respected artists.

Art is the ultimate expression of one’s feelings expressed in a medium either paper, wood, steel, etc.

As I look at what was going on, it suddenly hit me that there was another art being featured in this event. In cooperation with Greygoose I was tasked to make cocktails for the guests that were in the exhibit.  A cocktail is also the ultimate expression of art by no other than the bartender. From the time I would greet the guest who was interested in trying our creations, from getting the glass, putting the ice, pouring the liquor and the ingredients, thru shaking the drink thru straining it in a glass topping it off with the final garnish…definitely a work of art.

My medium were 3 varieties of Greygoose which included Greygoose Original, Greygoose, La Poire, and Greygoose L’Orange.

Each cocktail is like a story and the bartender is the narrator. And indeed, that night, about 80-100 guests listened to each story that we told in 4 hours.

When Visual Arts meets Art of Mixing, this is definitely a work of Art in fusion.Thank you for this opportunity and hope there will be more events like this.

What do you think?