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Egils Rozenbergs, Pēteris Sidars CONTRASTS

Two contemporaries, two world-renowned Latvian textile artists, two creative personalities with their own views on processes and phenomena, on tings seen in nature, explored in travels and identified in history.

Landscape and Power

Landscape and Power is the title of my continuous project since 2007. It contains three topics: No place, Tracks, and Landscape and Lines. The three topics are fused into one project. The title comes from the book by art historian W. J. T. Mitchell, published in 2002 (rev. ed.). Mitchell has investigated landscape painting through history and explored how past and present artists express themselves through landscape.

Group exhibition with four Danish artists.

A new evaluation of figurative art in a changing world Today the sharp distinction between figurative and abstract art has become blurred and replaced by many artistic strategies in which the two modes of expression are united to create new and unexpected interpretations of our volatile and infinite world. The figure, which has long been denied access to the artistic realm, thus resurfaces, but in a new context and with new challenges.

EXHIBITION OF IV INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE AND FIBER ART SYMPOSIUM

Latgalian culture has long traditions of textile art. Over the last 50 years, their professional development in Latvia has coincided with moving away from purely utilitarian household objects to a quest for constant changes and turning points in techniques, materials and soaring of the imagination.

VI th international Latgale Graphic Symposium

For the sixth time, visitors to the Rothko Centre can enjoy an international graphic show, which is the outcome of the annual International Latgale Graphic Symposium. It has brought together artists from 10 different countries, each of them with a unique artistic hand and vision, offering to the audience the fruits of their labour, expressed in the language of graphic art.

INFINITY OF ART – POLISH VIEW

The exhibition “ The Infinity of Art – Polish View ” presents completely different creative attitudes. Artists, however, are united in a sensual and lyrical reception of the world. They are also affiliated by the Warsaw District of the Polish Association of Visual Artists. The artists belong to various generations, which is also reflected in their paintings.

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM MARK ROTHKO 2017

It is traditional that artists, art admirers and collectors, are usually focusing on painting as an art medium. The painting symposium in Daugavpils with its thirteen year tradition is not an exception.

GUNARS KROLLIS “ SINGLE TIME TARIFF ”

 “ Single Time Tariff ”, the unifying title of the graphic art exhibition by Gunars Krollis (1932), an artist, a professor emeritus of the Art Academy of Latvia (AAL), an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences, involuntarily makes us think of the categories of time and space and their concept in the artistic environment and perception by a creative personality.

Baiba Priedīte WATERCOLOUR WALLS

Come and blend in – it’s the first impression of seeing the ease and the struggles conquered by the artist resulting in flows of water and colours. Baiba Priedīte ’s newly created watercolour “walls” and compositions greet the incomer, translucently and semi-transparently revealing the whiffle and with fields of concentrated colours emphasizing the importance of reality.

YVES ULLENS TRIBUTE

After a career in the telecommunications sector, Yves Ullens decided to dedicate himself entirely to his lifelong passion: photography. As a teenager, he had developed his first prints and learned the ropes of lab work in the dark room of his grandmother, herself a noted photographer and filmmaker. During a year’s study in the United States, he took technical lessons with two professional photographers who taught him about the importance of observation above all else. Yves Ullens developed an experienced eye and gained a lot of background theory about photography by assiduously attending contemporary art galleries and fairs.