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“ PING PONG. CHEMISTRY OF IDEAS ” Exhibition of the Latvian Artists’ Union Museum

The Museum of the Artists’ Union of Latvia (LMS Museum), renewing its collection of artworks, calls to remember or to view artworks of the 2nd half of the 20th century which though the display of the exhibition “Ping-pong. Teamwork of ideas” reveals the spirit of competition in art life of the time.

Eva Harut REALITY

Eva Harut – an artist, a writer, a journalist, an author of several documentary films. Born in Gyumri (Armenia). Studied art in the State Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan (Armenia). Currently lives and works in Dresden (Germany).

CHARM OF THE VICTORIAN FASHION Collection of Alexandre Vassiliev

For the second time, in the result of a successful cooperation, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre is presenting an exhibition from the collection of Alexander Vassiliev. This exhibition is a unique project of high artistic and cultural significance. It is the first time in Eastern Latvia to have such a rare opportunity to show a collection of authentic women’s clothing characterizing cultural environment and fashion of people who lived in the period of reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).

Worlds of Dream and Fantasy An International Group Exhibition

Curators: Nour Nouri, Māris Čačka … …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Curatorial Statement We all have had dreams from childhood till now. This realm of dreams has long been the subject of interpretation from classical antiquity. Apart from medieval manuscripts on interpretation of dreams, Freud’s seminal work lent a high significance to dreams in psychology. In a simple general sense, we dream when we are sleeping or daydreaming and it is then that the iceberg of the unconscious starts to appear more on the face of the deep sea of psyche. Fantasy, in a very simple definition, is the creative imagination. While we generally think that the borderline between sleep and wakefulness is clear-cut, it is actually not so. The unconscious is always present at work in its mysterious ways. In dreams we are closer to truth since we are on a higher state of mind.

IV International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium

This is the fifth year when Latgale Graphic Art Symposium takes place in Daugavpils, and it can be rightly called a successful and invaluable tradition of printmaking media in the region. For five years, the Symposia have been fertile grounds for communication between artists, as well as creative work in cultural space of Latgale, thus uniting like-minded and different-minded Latvian and foreign printmakers.

III International Textile Art Symposium

For the third time, Mark Rothko Art Centre has effected an international textile art symposium promoting development of this artistic genre in the region and allowing to meet and to work together representatives of both Latvian and foreign textile and fibre art.

ANDREI GORGOT. A WOMAN IN TIME

Andrei Gorgot was born on 19 October 1951 in Omsk (Russia). He started to draw at early stage of his childhood. While studying at school, he attended a fine arts studio, later – Omsk children’s art school. In 1974, he graduated from Sverdlovsk art school in Russia as a professional artist. He started his career at Omsk Art Fund, where his tasks involved decoration of the city: he created posters, decorative panels, carried out mural paintings, was engaged in interior designing of public spaces and so on. But all of his free time he devoted to his most beloved forms of art – easel-painting and graphic art.

TADEUSZ LAPINSKI ” ART AS THE WAY OF LIVING “

Tadeusz  Lapinski  (1928-2016) Our viewers soon will be privileged to watch the art work of amazing Polish artist, a global personality, whose work is significant not only in his homeland, but also in the scale of the world art. The artist’s solo shows were held successfully on all continents. Lapinski  has been honored with many top awards including the proclamation of "Lapinski Day" in a year calendar by President Ronald Reagan. Notable awards include: the UNESCO Prize from France; Gold Medal Statue of Victory of Calvatone, Italy; Gold Medal Audubon of New York City; Outstanding Man of the 21st Century of the International Biographical Center of Cambridge, England.

MARTINE LAFON. ALLA PRIMA

Exhibition of Martine Lafon “The Colour Wash” Dedication to the wash of Mark Rothko’s red Honouring red colour and Rothko Here – in Daugavpils – Martine Lafon pays respect to large-size paintings and drawings of Mark Rothko. Martine Lafon is interested in the idea of Rothko’s imperceptible landscapes and importance (at times) of wash of colours used by the artist. The diverse works by Martine Lafon overpower you.

EKATERINA EZHKOVA. THROUGH TIME

  A cycle of portraits by the artist Ekaterina Ezhkova was inspired by an old school photograph found in an archive of some women Gymnasium in the pre-revolutionary Russia. These portraits are realistic and somewhat illusive. They appear on canvases through layers of time. Characters as well as stylistics of portrait art belong to another, gone-by time. Mostly they are only faces, painted with acrylic on a partly primed canvas by a slight, almost imperceptible fine brush. The gentle touch is a reflection of characters and destinies. It is amazing how the artist manages to achieve maximum expressiveness of an image with such an asceticism of means. Her portraits mainly emphasize eyes – sometimes confused, sometimes questioning, sometimes serious. They live their intense life in a single focus-point. They are like wide-open souls suddenly encountering our stares with their openness and vulnerability.   Farida Zaletilo