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Janusz Golik. The Line of My Horizon.

  Line, Colour, Symbol in the golik’s Graphic Work. In Janusz Golik's "right place" exhibition, the pages of graphics at first glance could have seemed like posters. Clearly defined signs or symbols, on a just as poster-like smooth surface in stop-signal red or black colour, are set out at the centre of the composition planes.

FEELING LATVIA. FEELING LATGALE.

     The exhibition is the result of the project implemented by the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre and “Saules skola”, Daugavpils Secondary School of Design and Art. The aim of the project is to encourage youth participation in the formation of Latgale’s culture, as well as the development of their civic awareness and sense of belonging.

Inese Lieckalniņa The Sound of Silence

  Inese Lieckalniņa was born in 1954. She has studied art at Riga secondary school of Applied Arts (1970-1974) and at the Art Academy of Latvia (1974-1980). She is an active member of the society Graphic Art Chamber, graphic and stained-glass artist, and a participant of many graphic art exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. She has also organized several solo exhibitions.

Dmitrij Karpenko Foto exhibition SWEDEN FROM A BIRD’S EYE

  The photo exhibition “Sweden from the Bird’s-Eye View” by the Swedish photographer Dmitrijs Karpenko. The exhibition shows photos of the Swedish capital Stockholm and the region of Melar Lake.

How we sailed to learn entrepreneurship

  This exhibition exposes the experiences, impressions, emotions and lessons learnt during international training SAIL4entrepreneurSHIP that took place from 15 – 27 August in the Baltic Sea and its coast harbours.

“LOST IN THE ARCHIVE” The Exhibition of Latvian Contemporary Art Center

  The exhibition “Lost in the Archive” is arranged on the basis of the data base and archive materials of Latvian Contemporary Art Center which is the most extensive information storage on the processes in Latvian contemporary art. In works displayed at the exhibition, the tandems of artists and curators deal with the archive as a significant potential of culture storage, treating it as a carrier of many-sided information which forms and reformulates the relationships with history as well as involves the viewer as an active user of the archive and art work.

MONEY The exhibition of the 4th Latgale Graphic Symposium

  The international Latgale Graphic Symposium, being the cooperation project between Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center and The Association of Art Teachers Union, is an international communication platform for the professionals from the whole world working in the field of graphic art and meeting in Daugavpils for the 4th time already.

Latvian contemporary ceramics

Latvian contemporary ceramics   Continuing the Latvian contemporary art exhibition cycle started by Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center in 2014, this year viewers are offered the opportunity to acquaint themselves with Latvian contemporary ceramics. The choice of ceramics as this year’s art medium is, most likely, a natural occurrence – in 2015 the Daugavpils Ceramics association marks its 35th anniversary from its foundation. Furthermore, Latvian contemporary ceramics exhibition is a continuation of sorts to the view upon development of Latvian ceramic art that was begun this year in Rothko Center by a large-scale exhibition of Ķīpsala Ceramics thus outlining the process of creating contemporary ceramics. The aim of Latvian contemporary ceramics exhibition is to bring into light the significance of ceramics as a contemporary art medium and its place in the Latvian current art and culture scene. Therefore the greatest Latvian ceramic artists were invited to participate in the exhibition. They represent various generations of ceramics overall and have been successful in Latvia as well as are internationally recognized Latvian ceramic artists. Latvian ceramic artists Sanita Ābelīte, Skuja Braden, Valda Podkalne, Juta Rindina, Ilona Romule and Elīna Titāne, participate in the exhibition.

José Manuel Ciria Before the Title, Beyond the Surface

José Manuel Ciria Before the Title, Beyond the Surface   I decided to write this text about José Manuel Ciria as the words flashed back to me from memories. As the ideas emerged. In a kind of verbal abstract expressionism. It is totally surreal, because this has nothing to do with his work or the unconscious, nor unconsciousness. Expressing it in legal terms, as it were. I am sitting in front of a window from which all I can see is the sea. A vast monochrome sea. Dark, with subtle, veiny white crests. There is no land to be seen. The sky is a soft blue and white. This sequential repetition is actually a perfect abstract exercise, however real it may appear at a glance or to superficial interpretation. I am thinking about paintings by José Manuel Ciria, and his Before the Title, Beyond the Surface exhibition. I can find no references to his colour ranges that appear to spring from the bowels of the Earth rather than from the depths of the sea. Reds, blacks, earthy tones, like volcanic rocks. Despite this, I can imagine his pictures floating on the surface. Not adrift, simply lending intensity to the monotonous horizon. I would link this imaginary sequence with one of his painting installations where the pictures were scattered on the cold walls of a museum, in the Abstract Memory series, to be precise. Memory is as abstract as the environment that surrounds me. That is why my visual relationships are as abstract as his pictures.

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM MARK ROTHKO 2015” DAUGAVPILS, 15. – 26.09.2015.

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM MARK ROTHKO 2015” DAUGAVPILS, 15. – 26.09.2015.   The international symposium “Mark Rothko 2015” is a meeting place for masters of painting in Daugavpils - in the city where Mark Rothko was born. They meet for the eleventh time already to create works of painting to commemorate the master of painting and add to the collection of contemporary painting of Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre. This year, the closing exhibition of the symposium is seen along with the works by the master of Latvian painting, Valdis Bušs. Often, Matisse is considered Bušs’s predecessor in painting. The artist himself has never denied it too. The “Red Room” by Matisse was the work which attracted attention and left impact on Rothko’s painting as well. Can we feel the influence of the peculiar atmosphere of Rothko, Matisse and Daugavpils in works created at the 11th International Symposium “Mark Rothko 2015”?  Its immediate presence is felt in both oil paintings and acrylic canvases, and in water-color paintings as well, the latter being widely represented this year. 11 artists from 8 countries demonstrate their sensations and mastery at the symposium this year: Michail Lalov (Bulgaria); Siraj Saxena (India); Merav Shinn Ben-Alon (Israel); Alexander Selivanov (Russia); Karīna Korotkova and Sandra Strēle (Latvia); Voldemaras Barakauskas and Dainius Trumpis (Lithuania); Beate Gjersvold (Norway); Monika Falke and Janine Gerber (Germany). The touch of the brush upon the canvas or paper in Daugavpils has become also a testimony to art history for each artist personally, creating their own biography in art and marking the continuation of a stable tradition for the city of Daugavpils. Rothko Centre has become spiritually richer with a series of wonderful compositions, which embody sensations and impressions, meetings, conversations, Rothko, Daugavpils, Latgale, Latvia…