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Irina Ošleja In Klerkopolis?

The word “Klerkopolis” combines two words “klerks” and “polis” which translated from Greek means “city”. The word “klerks” [clerk] means office worker, secretary, clerk. Denotation: an employee of a bureaucratic system of some administrative institution.

Graphic Langauge of the 1969S in Latvia exhibition ON THE TRACK OF GREAT LIFE

the Track of Great Life. Expression of the graphic art of the 1960-ties” displays objects characteristic to that particular time in the history, resembling the once new aesthetic ideals – dominance of the so called linear-geometric style. Ideals changed along with the boom of the economy and the light industry, as well as the exploration of the Universe and the progress of science and technology.

Matiass Jansons exhibition SCULPTURES

Matiass Jansons has graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Art Academy of Latvia (1999). A member of Latvian Artists Association (since 2003).

Juris Gagainis SHIPS CALL AT DINABURG

  Juris Gagainis  SHIPS CALL AT DINABURG     Juris Gagainis – sophisticated artist with ambition for perfection, blessed with the poetic imagination and in perpetual search into the unknown.

Le moment supreme photography artwork by Manuel Schroeder

Often puts the mundane, the long familiar only through unfamiliar perspectives and selection in a new light. In concert contest is memory and reality mix, particularly intense in places that are currently undergoing a change of meaning in their function. It is the phenomenon of different qualities of perception that drives the artist Manuel Schroeder in his work. His main focus is the symbolic power of the seemingly self-evident. The project focuses on special places, whose meaning has changed in recent years. In appearance they are still marked by their former function as well as by the time their characteristic design. The selected locations are atmospheric compressed by the tension of their past and present appearance. They provide inspiration and trigger associations. In the photographic work Le supreme moment Manuel Schroeder is dealing with the reality of these places and works of expressions that match the volatility of our memories.

Aija Meisters Pale Horses

  The artist Aija Meister was born in 1939 in Daugavpils at the time when Europe was ruled by confusion and, like several other world-famous Latvian artists, as a refugee Aija arrived in the USA. There she studied art at the University of Wisconsin, gaining Master's degree in Arts, as well as visited Master Classes of the Polish-American abstract expressionist Jack Tworkov. Later, the artist drew experience and studied art in Europe. Aija Meisters is an excellent painter, sculptor and graphic artist. Her Artist Statement follows:

Nele Zirnīte ORIGIN

   Nele Zirnīte’s solo exhibition “Origin” is her dedication to all artists – members of the society “Oforta ģilde“ [Etching Art Guilde] – who like Nele continue to develop etching art and try to blow a new breath into this ancient technique, simultaneously keeping the traditions alive.

STRONG WATER Etching Art Guild – 5

  Etching is a technique of graphic art having a long-standing and rich history which goes back to the 16th century, but at present it continues to exist thanks to the artists who full of enthusiasm and obstinacy still continue working in this field. This is a demanding technique insisting that in order to achieve the desired result its users should be patient, precise and persevering, and technically masterful as well.

Dzidra Ezeregaile THE SONG OF THE SUN

  Dzidra Ezergaile (1926 – 2013) – a small, thin woman of very delicate build with a back bent by the load of years, but always wearing a good-natured, sincere and warm smile and having a radiant glance – she belonged to the generation of artists who prospered during the complicated post-war years. The artist went through a long, interesting and creative life, facing a lot of challenges and difficulties, but stubbornly and purposefully devoting herself to art.

II International Textile Art Symposium FORTRESS MAN

For the second successive year Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre organizes the International Textile Art Symposium. This time the theme of the symposium is “Fortress Man” - the theme which is both promising and offering various possibilities for developing it in creative works.