Argentinian artist Ernesto Morales from Italy introduces himself to Latvian audiences with an exhibition Beginning and light, approaching these concepts from both a metaphysical and physical angle. Painting smoky, sunlit clouds, E. Morales explores how the space and its level of illumination in dialogue with the viewer’s movement can radically change the perception of the work of art.
Personal exhibition of Gustav Philipson Windbreaker characterizes the artist’s path in seemingly monochrome black abstraction and expression saturated with the power of the winds of the Kurzeme coast. The vastness that opens up in the black squares of G. Philipson’s paintings cannot be defined in terms of dimensions, what happens in the darkness is irrational and suggestive.
Homegrown artist Mārtiņš Zirmanis with an exhibition Salas conditionally returns to one of the “islands” of his life, because at the beginning of his creative life he lived and worked in Daugavpils for 13 years. The artist’s islands are pictorial objects found in each of his works. The compositions are abstract, but interspersed with realism, with island objects always taking center stage.
Personal exhibition of artist, poet and art teacher Ruta Štelmacher Eternal child inspired by significant events in his personal life – encounter with God, birth of children and death of parents. “A bright flash emerges from the light of my childhood – the first awareness that there is time and eternity, space and infinity. With the force of a whirlwind, my child’s consciousness is touched by the archetypal questions: what was when I was not there, what will happen when I am not there? What is it like to be and never end? And how can it be that something never ends? The eternal child does not lose the status of a child. He holds the hand of God, who is from forever and ever,” says the artist.
Painter and illustrator of children’s books, Ekaterina Griškjane’s exhibition I am in the house talks about life’s most painful loss and the path of acceptance, which the child’s mind measures in order to explain to itself the passing of the closest person. Ekaterina was nine years old when her grandfather died. At that time, she did not know what death was, but she sensed that it was like the last journey. In the exhibition, the artist depicted her vision of this road.
On the other hand, ceramicist Inese Margēviča, whose personal exhibition In warm light On view in Daugavpils in the Martinson House of the Rothko Museum, it deals with the theme of points of contact, interaction and energy exchange between man and the plant world. The central image of the group of ceramic objects on display at the exhibition is the wild cyclamen
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