Some instances of encounters between imagination and matter at the Latvian National Museum of Art.
When knowledge ends,
truth emerges.
Andris Eglītis is one of the most brilliant Latvian painters of his generation. In his practice he continuously creates tools to facilitate new ways of thinking through painting for himself and others. In his work with the artistic community in various spaces and locations - balancing between urban and rural, he enabled himself to achieve tremendous artistic freedom bringing a huge variety of works in scale, style and material. Focusing on the very notion of Eglītis' creative practice this major exhibition of a locally and internationally acclaimed artist is created not just as Eglītis' solo exhibition, but the exhibition as a reflection of collective art practice in its creation involving other creative community members, their artworks, and ideas.
Together with the creative team Eglītis sees the exhibition as a particular personal and local spatial phenomenon in Western culture, and its process can be understood as a creation of an ecosystem, a collective consciousness, as well as an inquiry into how it relates to local contexts and identity. Eglītis is creating this exhibition as an immersive installation which is site-specific to the Great Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. New artworks and paintings from different time periods will coexist with installations and architectural objects blurring the line of what is and is not a work of art. The exhibition will be enriched with the artworks by a number of invited artists. Public program will be created by artist Agnese Krivade, exhibition-commentary in the permanent collection display of the Latvian National Museum of Art curated by artists Aleksejs Beļeckis and Liene Pavlovska, as well as education program curated jointly by Kitija Vasiļjeva and team of the LNMA.
Andris Eglītis’ artistic practice and upcoming exhibition makes use of the imagination and the language of painting as an instrument, constituting a proposal and a testimony of the environment as a life-affirming and meaningful space with which one has an earnest and non-hierarchical relationship.
