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Baņuta Ancāne ” GOD EXISTS “

Once in my childhood, when I was standing on a pedestrian crossing and waiting for speeding cars to pass by, a revelation came to me – “ God exists ”. This theme follows me my entire life. In all my works – portraits, still-life paintings, and landscapes – I think about it. Many years ago, recovering from illness, the idea arose to create the works exhibited here in the pastel technique – it was a bright dream with the Mother of God. When I woke up I made a little sketch, which later turned into a large-size work “Our Lady of Riga”. Then the idea developed more rapidly. Later, during meditation, I saw the composition “The Pietà” in three different versions. For further inspirations I searched in the motives of nature and clouds, in shapes and silhouettes, in which much can be seen. The way of looking is the one that matters: someone may see a dog, while another one – an angel... I want to continue this eternal theme if my strength and health allows me to for man proposes, but God disposes.

Andris Zēgners IN THE LIGHT

Light still inspires an endless cognitive process, both in science and in art.

Artūrs Bērziņš THE FEEDER

The artist does not stop, but continues to reflect on the interaction between various types of populism and mythologemes and the recipient, easily, ironically, and yet – sensitively balancing between the content and the form of the ambiguously compatible, while “feeding” and “being fed”.

Moshe Kupferman VARIOUS PURPLE GRAY

 The Kupferman Collection - Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot Moshe Kupferman was born in 1926 in Jaroslav, south-eastern Poland, to a family of tradesmen who owned a haberdashery store. His father came from a family of coppersmiths – makers of brewery boilers – hence the origin of the family’s name.

Iveta Vaivode SWORD LILIES

It is a hot summer day. I’m walking along the path through the nettles, until I find myself in the yard of a long-abandoned house. I see a broken window, and it seems that it gives me a chance to plunge into my childhood for the last time.

Maija Dragūne LITHOGRAPHY

Lithography has always been a graphic arts technique which has offered me huge opportunites. The polished surface of white stone proposes a great deal to me. Before I go to work, I have to have a clear idea, because stone will tolerate no repairs. Each application of ink must be fresh and convincing.

Marta Ģibiete THE TRAVELLERS

“... Since my childhood, I remember the happy feeling when, amid of a warm summer day, I am resting in the middle of a flowered meadow and watching white, chubby clouds floating in the blue sky. Clouds are floating by. Where do they come from, where do they go? I am imagining how that tattered cloud, that just passed me by, in a few hours will fly over another city or town, and by evening it will be hundreds of kilometres far.

Edmunds Tamovičs ON THRESHOLD

Art is a non-stop revelation. Daily. And in all possible forms of knowledge and senses. Each new work, exhibition, author, page of a book, display, acquaintance, travel into imagination can change a person’s life and perception of art.

Biruta Delle CITADELLE

Biruta Delle – an Artist, a Dissident, a Classic, an Old Master, who is endowed with an absolute sense of colour – all these terms describe her and yet they are too insufficient and superficial to fully illustrate her personality. Light and time are parents of Biruta. She has inherited her mother’s heart, the father’s wisdom.

FORMS OF SILENCE AND EMPTINESS

Forms of silence and emptiness The theme for the exhibition of regional art was chosen not by chance, considering the fact that it is organized by an art Centre named after Mark Rothko. Silence and emptiness are two key concepts that were extremely important and relevant to Rothko’s work, especially to his classic works. Speaking of his artistic method, the master compared it with “creative emptiness”, appealing to the philosophy of Buddhism, in which emptiness has infinite potential: everything in this world happens or “materializes” from “nowhere” and everything goes “nowhere”.