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DŽEMMA SKULME SUBSTANCE AND FORM. PATHOS AND RESIGNATION.

How does an artist act? Džemma Skulme slightly opens the door to her creative kitchen: “For example, while painting you have a feeling that you fail, fail and will never succeed. But you also know that there will be a moment and you will succeed. As if some forces come to help you to cope with everything.

Gundega Strautmane Love infinity

Gundega Strautmane Love infinity   Gundega Strautmane has studied textile art at the Experimental Textile Design Institute in Berlin Art University, the Art Academy of Latvia and Riga Technical University. She carries out textile projects in disciplines of art experimental design. In her art projects Gundega makes use of the Braille code and creates works which are perceivable for both the viewers with good eyesight and also visually impaired people. Though works created by Gundega Strautmane may be considered as modernization of traditions, the ornament in them appears in a peculiar way, essentially differing from the traditions. The artist has employed Braille and transcribed in it phrases from Christian prayers, writing these phrases with the help of tangible beads. These clusters of bead signs are arranged in a symmetrical rhythm,   both repeating the prayer text and creating an impressive decorative ornament. In the result, these works illustrate a classical move during which a somersault has been even done: first of all, the text has been made a three-dimensional physical structure. It can be read and its content is perceivable by touch only; repetitions and the ornamental arrangement of repetition clusters provide not only a literary but also a sensual-esthetic experience. Art critic: Iliana Veinberga

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.