16.11.2017 - 21.12.2017.

Dita Lūse's exhibition "Anatomy of light" is open for viewing in art gallery MuseumLV (first floor) until December 21, 2017.

The exhibited works have been created within 2016 and 2017. The artist continues to explore the nature of light – the inspiration for this exhibition has been drawn in reflections, shadows, lights and x-ray images.

"The image, created in the momentary flash of radiation reveals the matters that are otherwise hidden from our eyes – this possibility to view the secret, to discover the invisible fascinates me. I study and admire the forms of bones and gentle shapes of plants in the cold play of x-ray light. For me it is essential that the creatures in the images are alive. I consider x-rays as very private depictions. One can see the human being much more profoundly than with any other kind of photography, yet at the same time x-ray is detached, it erases all individuality. In the short moment of light bones and floral structures become a pattern, an ornament.

The body is revealed in the short moment of x-ray light, and it contrasts the long-lasting light that shines into ancient vaults and spaces that I paint. This dimension of light is very important to me, just like the knowledge that walls, floors and patterns are loaded with memories, fates, life stories.
Patterns allow me to to show the depth of spaces, which in turn let me convey the feeling of solitude and silence. Still even more important for me is that patterns can entrance the viewer, and when painting portraits the meditative nature of ornaments enhance the mood. Observing the patterns one can get distracted, lose oneself, or, quite contrary, experience the moments of awareness and forget about time", reveals the artist.

Dita Lūse has been awarded as Best Painter by Aviskar Awards in 2012, Kolkata, India, has participated in Beijing International Art Biennial in China in 2010, twice been the finalist at Grand Prize Competition of Art Revolution Taipei in Taiwan (2015 & 2017) and has been selected as finalist in Art Olympia 2017 competition in Tokio, Japan. Dita has had significant solo-exhibitions in Latvia as well as elsewhere, e.g. "immagini Spazio Arte" in Cremona, Italy, "The moment of Light" in gallery "Artifact" in New York, USA and selected as invited artist for solo-show in A.R.T. 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan.

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