Creative group Orbīta. Comments
August 7 – 29, 2010

The exhibition present new work by artists Roman Korovin, Vladimir Leibgam, Anna Volkova, Alexander Zapol, Jelena Glazova selected by the curator of the exhibition, photographer Vladimir Svetlov. The unifying motif of the exhibition: the notion of a comment as the key to understanding the artist’s idea.
The exhibition is based on a discussion of the stereotypes of perception and it uses the interaction between images and text as a means of artistic expression. “Comments” draws attention to the problem of artworks and their interpretation, the antagonism of verbal and visual communication. The question of the artwork and its interplay or collision with its commentary has become particularly acute in contemporary art and the artists of the creative group Orbīta offer their reply to it.
Activities of Orbīta are associated with interdisciplinary activities, and the interaction of text and image has been dealt with in several previous projects, for example, poetry readings accompanied by photo and video projections and music.

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Roman Korovin. Bathing and Sunbathing. 2010
© Roman Korovin

Ieva Epnere. The Green Land
September 4 – October 3, 2010

Exhibition supported by: Epson, FineArtPrint, GroGlass, Vaiņode Municipality.
Exhibited works are printed by FineArtPrint.lv with Epson SP7900 on Epson Traditional Photo paper.

Ieva Epnere. From the series The Green Land.
© Ieva Epnere

Reinis Hofmanis. Sale
October 8 – 31, 2010

In the series Sale Reinis Hofmanis collects Latvian countryside landscapes that all are joined by the ubiquitous label “For sale”.  As this is a common sight in Latvian countryside during the time of economical crisis, this collection of landscapes present not only pictorial values but also a realistic portrait of our times.
Reinis Hofmanis (1985) is a photographer and graphic designer. He has graduated from the Department of Visual Communication at the Latvian Academy of Art (2009), and besides he has studied in the Department of photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover (2007). Reinis Hofmanis gained his first recognition in 2009 after showing his series Model. Art critic Maija Rudovska noted that “Reinis has created his series Model sensitively, discretely and reverently. (..) We can also feel that Reinis has gone further than the traditional “model – object” association, that we usually observe in studio works by artists” (Rudovska, M. Reinis Hofmanis. Between Documental and Staged Photography. Foto Kvartāls, No. 6(26), 2009, p. 93).

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Reinis Hofmanis. From the series Sale. 2009
© Reinis Hofmanis