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Tuesday, 23.04.2024, 09:51
Summer flowers and colours in winter - in Rietumu Bank gallery
An exhibition of works of Zigrida Ilenane , a modern artist from Riga,
has opened in Rietumu Bank Gallery. The exposition presents over 30 oil
paintings, created recently.
The main subject of the artist’s works is the nature of Latvia. Main genres are
landscape and still life. Interior of a farmer’s home, ordinary kitchenware,
rye bread, honeycomb, vegetables and fruits, ceramics and a lot of flowers –
all of these things live their own life in the works of Zigrida Ilenane, which
are unhurried, non-pompous, devoid of glamour and refined beauty, following
traditions rather than fashion and style. Her every painting seems to be
created fast, in a single burst, in one holistic mood, which is perceived at
first glance.
One of her favourite motives
is still life at an open window, behind which one may see a forest, or a meadow
full of flowers, a lake or a river, and every such composition sounds like a
hymn to summer, summer life in the country and its ordinary, vital joys.
“It is an ordinary view from
the window of a farmer’s house, but it stimulates me a lot and gives creative
drive,” says Zigrida Ilenane. “This summer brightness of colours!” It is a
farmer’s house, where one can live from spring till autumn. But there are
winter landscapes as well... I still like the traditional Latvian realism in
painting, its positivism and certain romanticism.”
Zigrida Ilenane is a resident
of Riga. She graduated from the famous Rozentals Art High School and the Art
Academy of Latvia, where one of her teachers was the famous Latvian artist,
modernist, “live classic” Edvards Grube.
The first personal exhibition
of Zigrida Ilenane was held in 1984, and since then 50 more exhibitions have
been held. Paintings of Zigrida Ilenane were also exhibited abroad – in
Germany, China, Israel, Great Britain, the USA, Russia, the Baltic countries and
Ukraine.
The most recent personal
exhibition was held in Germany, in the Saxon city of Grossenhain, which was
attended by over 60 thousand visitors, including the President of the Federal
Republic of Germany. The core of this collection is now exhibited in Rietumu
Bank.
The name of this exhibition
has been chosen for a reason – VELREIZ (ONCE MORE). It reflects the artistic
approach of the painter, her clear and thoughtful view regarding what actually
fills the concept of picturesque – soft tones, transfers, light and shadow,
light and aerial state. All of these allow one to look at the same things in a
different way at different times of the day, from different perspectives, when
in a specific mood and state of mind.
The exhibition of Zigrida
Ilenane will be open in Rietumu Gallery until the end of the first decade of
March.