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Art Gallery MuseumLV and Culture Center Grata JJ
10 June – 29 July 2023.
From June 10 to July 29 2023 Art Gallery MuseumLV and Culture Center Grata JJ will host an ambitious solo exhibition of the artist Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja "Stamp. The image of Latvia. Versions of Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja". Such an extensive exposition is intended to show the author's long-term and successful cooperation with Latvijas Pasts. During thirty years the artist has made around 100 stamps with very diverse themes for this company. These are stamps in the series “National Costumes”, “Christmas”, “Mittens”, “Ethnographic Jewelry”, “National Armed Forces of Latvia”, “Saeima”, “Lighthouses of Latvia”, “Protection of Nature”, “Outstanding Latvian Scientific and Cultural Personalities”, “Museums of Latvia”. Stamps made by the artist can be recognised as vivid messages or miniature stories about our country, our values and ideals. Therefore, Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja can rightly be considered as one of the leading creators of the visual image of Latvia as a country.
At the same time this exhibition is intend to show the proccess of creating the stamp. Therefore, sketches, drafts, original drawings, prints, blocks of issued stamps, enlarged digital copies of them, first-day envelopes with stamps, photographs, as well as some items depicted on stamps from the collections of the Riga History and Shipping Museum, the Riga Porcelain Museum and the National Costume Center “Senā Klēts”,as well as private colletions will be represented at this exhibition.
The exhibition will also show a small part of the children's book illustrations created by Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja. The stamps made by the artist dedicated to this theme will complement the series of collages for her own written and illustrated book "Mole and silver shoes" (Zvaigzne ABC, 2020), as well as for the children's book "Miracle Day" (2022) written by Ruta Svaža and dedicated to the postal theme, published by Latvijas Pasts.
At the opening of the exhibition, the event of the presentation of the stamp dedicated to the Song Festival, made by the artist Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja, is planned.
About the artist.
Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja was born on January 10, 1963 in Jelgava. Graduated from the Latvian Academy of Arts with a specialty in graphics (1988), received a master's degree in humanities (2003). Areas of activity – estamps, book illustrator, advertising and graphic design, packaging and coin design.
Participates in exhibitions since 1986. Member of the Artists' Union of Latvia since 1993. She has held solo exhibitions in Riga (portrait graphics; 1994), in the “Senā klēts” gallery (a series of stamps dedicated to folk costumes, 1997), in the Jelgava History and Art Museum (together with V. Dzērve, the painting cycle “Dorian's travels”, 2021).
Jury member of the Zelta ābele book competition, as well as the international Baltic States book competition (2014, 2020). Received international recognition as a book illustrator, including 1st prize at the 21st book design and illustration competition (1988), diploma at the 2nd Riga Miniature Graphics Triennale (1990); diploma at the book art triennial Vilnius-90; diploma and prize at the Baltic graphic design triennial in Sweden (1993); multiple winner of the Most Beautiful Book of the Year (2001–2005) competition; main prize in the book art competition Zelta ābele (2008), diploma in the Riga Picture Book Quadrennial (2014).
In the collection coin series of the Bank of Latvia, the design was created for the coins “Krišjānis Barons”, “Krišjānis Valdemārs”, “Rainis” and “Rainis and Aspazija”, which won an award in the international coin competition “Coin Constellation 2016”.
She has made around 100 stamps for Latvijas Pasts and the artist's cooperation with Latvijas Pasts continues.
https://epadomi.com/kulturasvestis/izstade/19052023-aicina_apmeklet_izstadi_pastmarka_latvija
https://www.la.lv/pasta-baloza-aplidotie-makslas-darbi
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