77 works were selected for the exhibition at the Rothko Centre, including 11 works by Latvian artists and 66 by artists from overseas. These were miniature clay representation of the artists\u2019 memories, i.e. their \u2018memory boxes\u2019 supplemented with a brief description of the memories captured in each artwork.<\/p>\n
Competition winners were selected shortly before the exhibition opening by an international jury featuring Valda Podkalne (Latvia<\/em>), artist; Ieva Nagli\u0146a (Latvia<\/em>), artist, curator, R\u012bga Porcelain Museum; M\u0101ris \u010ca\u010dka (Latvia<\/em>), artist, curator, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre; Rasa Stru\u017eien\u0117 (Lithuania<\/em>), manager, Ceramics Pavilion of Paneve\u017eys Municipal Art Gallery; Pille Kaleviste (Estonia<\/em>), artist; Valent\u012bns Petjko (Latvia<\/em>), artist, curator, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics.<\/p>\n At the opening ceremony Ms Inga Goldberga, executive director of Daugavpils City Council, congratulated all the artists and announced competition winners.<\/p>\n Anticipating the centenary of the Latvian State and the 2nd Latvia International Ceramics Biennale, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, in cooperation with Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, opened an exhibition of artwork created during the international ceramics competition \u201cMemory Box\u201d and announced competition winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe solo exhibition award at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre was given to a Finnish artist Kirsi Kivivirta. Meanwhile, the double exhibition award went to two Hungarian artists \u2013 Zsofia Karsai and Marta Radics.<\/h4>\n
Another winner, Chinese artist Kwan Sau Man, who attended the exhibition opening and awards ceremony in person, won the opportunity to participate at the VI International Ceramic Art Symposium \u201cCeramic Laboratory\u201d. Meanwhile, Latvian artist Ilze Emse-Gr\u012bnberga received a 100 EUR gift card from supporters of the competition \u2013 Keramserviss Ltd.<\/h4>\n
The exhibition of the Memory Box Competition is open to the public at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre until 21 January 2018. The Centre will publish the exhibition catalogue.<\/h6>\n
Supporters: Association \u201cLatvijai 100\u201d, Daugavpils City Council, \u201cLode\u201d Ltd., \u201cKeramserviss\u201d Ltd.<\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"