16.11.2017 - 21.12.2017.

Art group "V.I.V.A." "Fell in Love with Latgale…"

Art group "V.I.V.A." celebrates their existence with publishing the catalog and opening the exhibition. The catalog has been created as a result of the project with financial support from Latgale Region Development Agency, State Culture Capital Foundation and JSC Latvian State Forests.

The exhibition "Fell in Love with Latgale…" is a story about talented and life-loving Latgalian painters - Vēsma Ušpele, Ilze Griezāne, Vija Stupāne, and Agra Ritiņa, who meet from time to time to be together, paint, share their life stories, enrich each other and create. Each of the artists comes from their own place in Latgale - Vēsma from Malta, Ilze from Līvāni, Vija from Aglona, and Agra from Rēzekne. Together they cover the whole Latgale. Together they create exhibitions, participate in plenary sessions. For more than 10 years, they have visited various places, experienced creation together in Latgale, Kurzeme, Vidzeme and Zemgale, each time learning something new and telling a story about Latgale everywhere. The number of joint exhibitions is well over two dozen and the works have been seen in Latvia, Lithuania and Germany. Regularly the painters’ works can be seen at the autumn exhibitions of Latgalian artists' at the Latgale Cultural History Museum, the Latgale Region Artists’ Exhibitions at the Mark Rothko Art Center and the exhibitions of the works of the winners of Jāzeps Pīgoznis (1934–2014) award for the painting of Latvian landscapes.
The art historian Evija Vasiļevska says about the art group: "Painters have not yet completed all their creative way, but it can be said for sure that their footsteps in the art are permanent and remarkable, by propagating plein-air painting and singing the hymn for nature - capturing their landscapes in genre works, while maintaining the ability to paint together on a long-term basis, complementing each other, cultivating the self of individual creation and confirming the successful use of new means of expression in each artwork."

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