The exhibition cycle The Generation
To mark the 90th birthday of the legendary Latvian photographer Gunārs Binde, on 21 September the artist's personal exhibition BINDE 100–10 will be opened in the right wing of the 2nd floor of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1, Riga). Before the opening of the exhibition an ambitious photo album BINDE 100–10 is also planned for release.
During his photographer's career spanning 66 years, Gunārs Binde (1933) has received both local and international recognition, his works earning dozens of awards in foreign photography salons. The exhibition BINDE 100–10 will reflect the artist's path towards and through these achievements by creating a metaphorical diary of key events, themes and people, while occasionally interspersing the visual narrative with Binde's own comments about the background of the making of a specific photograph.
Looking back at the beginnings of the artist's creative career, a significant turning point was his work in the theatre. This is where Binde learned the art of light, as he himself puts it in the forthcoming book, becoming a “master of light”. Theatre brought Gunārs Binde together with a companion in the making of staged photography, artist and stage designer Arnolds Plaudis, while almost 30 years later – with his muse and wife Tatjana, together with whom he tricked gravity in the series Flight.
