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Solo Exhibition
21 aug. - 20 sept. 2009
Laima Eglite , one of the most versatile artists of her generation, alongside painting is also working in book graphic art and animation. Eglite trained as a professional artist at Janis Rozentäls Riga Secondary Art School and Department of Painting of the Latvian Acamdemy of Art.
Duality, formally ranging from use of lacal spectre hues to nuanced subtlety of half-tones, from a bold brushstroke to a pointillistic pulse, is typical of Laima Eglite's painting, resulting in compositions that are, at times, static and serene and, at other times, powerfully expressive.
Laima Eglite's solo exhibition at the White Hall of Latvian National Museum of Art offers a retrospective overview of the artist's work, spanning almost thirty (1971-2009) years of her creative career.
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LAIMA EGLITE BIOGRAPHY
1945, Born in Riga , Latvia
"Image is my language (...)
I am fascinated by theatre. Therefore I 'play' my paintings.
Education
1958- 1965: Janis Rozentals Art Highschool.
1966-1974: Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department.
Creative Activities: painting, animation films and book illustrations
for children.
Member of the Latvian Artists Society since 1976.
Public collections
Art and local History Museum, Tukums, Latvia
The State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
The Art Collection of the Latvian Artists'Union
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Russia
The Art Museum at Sverdlovska, Russia
Selected exhibitions and Art Fairs
Since
1969, regular participation in more than 60 exhibitions in Latvia
and abroad. Among them :
1979: Baltic young artists exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania.
1981: Vilnius Painting Triennial.
1989: The USSR Painting Exhibition, Moscow.
1990: The Vilnius Book Illustration Triennial.
1998: II All Latvian Art Exhibition, Riga, Latvia.
1989: Riga Days in Bremen, Germany: Lettische Malerei.
1990: Malerei der achtzigen Jahre aus Lettland Riga, Munchen Hilton.
1995: Arte Fiera 95. International Fair of Contemporary Art, Bologna.
2001: Classic VIII International Biennial, Kortrijk, Belgium.
2003: d’Haudrecy Art Gallery, Belgium (solo)
2003: Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton N.J., USA
2003: Blackheath Gallery, London, UK
2003: El Cantil Gallery, Santander, Spain
2005: El Cantil Galeria de Arte, Puente Arce, Spain(solo)
2006: Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, UK
2007: Gallery Strenger, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2009 ( 21 Aug.- 20 sept) : solo exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art . Retrospective of the artist's works spanning almost thirty years (1971-2009) of her creative career.
Some
words of the artist :
“Nothing
has to stand out. Sense, colour, composition, inner energy in
action, all in ideal proportion. Image is my language.
It contains all the necessary information. If I need words they
appear in my pictures. What is significant in life, in art ?
In life it is love; in art it is the inner energy in action.
I am fascinated by theatre. Therefore I “play”
my paintings. Every picture reveals real persons in real situations,
and I am the producer. When I meet those persons in real
life, I am shy… There are paintings that are born
ready in my mind. There exist ideas which I can’t grab
at once, those are developed on paper. There are works which
just pop out. Time will decide what has been worthy, what has
been a mistake. Life is a row of occasions. So are my
pictures. But everybody has the right to see things differently. The
author and his work is one combination of perception, the spectator
and the piece of art, the author and the spectator other perception…”
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