From June 1 to 7, the conceptual work of the artist Kristaps Ancāns can be seen on the facade of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet (LNOB), as well as on Instagram – the installation “How much would you be willing to pay for the secret of dark matter now?”
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The context of the work is the author’s installation on the facade of the gallery “domobaal” during the London Gallery Week, which takes place from June 4 to 6, “Delfi” previously informed the curator Inga Šteimane.
The work is technically solved as two large-format signs on the facade of the White House, but the extension has been published in the LNOB and the author’s “Instagram” recordings. “The content and form of the installation is formed by a sentence built by the artist, which settles in the social atmosphere,” explains the project curator Šteimane.
“The context of the work is the coward crisis and the uncertainty of the global perspective, which has created a situation in which the search for any solutions prevails – whether everyone feels provoked by daily heroism or at least a change of effort, beliefs and priorities. “Kristaps Ancāns ‘works have a certain stage and rhetorical gestures, as if the texture of the works were modeled by mixing advertising, social protests and Aristotle Ars Rhetorica’ s teachings about the importance of logos, pathos and ethos in communication,” says the curator.
Kristaps Ancāns is a lecturer at the new interdisciplinary master’s degree in art POST of the Latvian Academy of Arts. Born in 1990 in Livani. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Painting Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts (2014) and a master’s degree (with distinction) from Central Saint Martins (CSM) School of Art in London (2016). Participated in the second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art with the project “What do I dream about?” (2020), organized solo exhibitions “Various reasons why your snowman looks dirty” in Riga Smallest Gallery (2020), “Large memories (in terms of size)” at the art station Dubulti (2018); received a Cecil Lewis Scholarship in Sculpture (2014) and a Helen Scott Lidgett Studio Award (2016); has participated in group exhibitions and worked with institutions since 2011 – Tate Modern and Peer Gallery in London, UK Young Artists Festival in Derby, exhibitions in Vilnius, Tartu, Warsaw, Moscow, Takamatsu (Japan), Kuldiga, including the project “Industrialism “Contemporary Art Gallery in Livani (2016).
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