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Interrupted Dialogue

To support the efforts of Ukrainian artists and galleries to maintain the continuity of the creative process in the conditions of war, from 26 January to 26 February 2023, the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga (Doma laukums 6) in collaboration with Galerie Les Noms presents the solo exhibition by Ukrainian artist IVAN MARCHUK (Іван Марчук) entitled Interrupted Dialogue.

This is the first exhibition containing works of Ivan Marchuk in the Baltic States. Artworks on view belong to private collection of Yuriy Gutsu (Юрій Гуцу), founder of the gallery Galerie Les Noms. The curator of the project is a young Ukrainian artist and social activist Mariia Volina (Марія Воліна) who is the representative of the Galerie Les Noms in Latvia.

Ivan Marchuk has worked intensively to elaborate an individual pictorial manner, and eventually created his own art technique, which he calls pliontanism (from the Ukrainian пльонтати – to weave, knit). Instead of painting with the usual strokes, artist traces and weaves lace networks on canvas or cardboard. Marchuk does not recognize his style to belong to any sophisticated classification, because he has done works in nearly all genres imaginable: landscapes, portraits and something fairy-like. Author paints fantastic figural and floral compositions with elements of surrealism, but also hyperrealist portraits, enigmatic landscapes and abstract expressionist compositions.