This spring, textile artist Inta Amoliņa agreed to exhibit her works in Riga’s Wagner House after a break of more than ten years.
This decision opened the door to the barrel – invitations to exhibit followed one another. National Library, “Galerija Centrs”, Kolkas Libėšiu saieta nams, Cesvaines Castle. And Inga and Aivaras Klein’s art gallery “Ludviķis” in Liepāja, where this weekend Inta Amoliņa’s solo exhibition of textile works “Piekraste” will open its doors to visitors.
This will be the artist’s second exhibition in Liepāja, the first time she exhibited in Liepaja was many years ago in another Klein gallery – “Klints”.
Some of the works selected for the exhibition. Photo: irliepaja.lv.
The artist says that for a long time now, her home has been both in Riga and near Liepāja, on the Bernati side, where twenty years ago she and her girlfriends bought a house, which later became the house of the Amoliņi family. In recent years, since she no longer works at the Art Academy, where Inta Amoliņa has headed the Fashion Design Department for more than twenty years, she spends as much time in the house by the sea as in Riga, where the three Amoliņa children and nine grandchildren live.
We meet at the moment when the owner of the gallery is putting the works on the walls downstairs, and the artist with a needle in her hands is working on the just finished fragment of the “sea”, which must immediately be on the wall of the exhibition hall.
So many works have been brought that there is not enough space for all of them under the vaults of “Ludviķas”, but the artist wants to show both the newest and some of the first works that won laurels at international exhibitions in Belgium, Holland and France.
Top exhibition “Coast”. Photo: irliepaja.lv.
Inta Amoliņa’s textile mosaics, as Inta’s teacher and founder of Latvian textile art Rūdolfs Heimrāts named them, are both large bedspreads and wall coverings, as well as painting-sized works, which are truly paintings created from fabric, and often only from pieces a few centimeters in size.
One work often combines or all fabric processing techniques – batik, embroidery, painting, printing. Thematically, this exhibition is dominated by the coast and the rhythm of the day – sea, dunes, morning, evening, day, night. Techniques – the so-called patchwork, which is pieces of fabric sewn with seams to the inside, and quilt – a triple layer of fabrics (top layer, padding, lining) with decorative quilting.
Inta has been interested in sewing and fashion since childhood, she learned the basics at the Riga Light Industry Technical School, she entered the Academy of Arts and got to work with professor Rudolfs Heimrat. Inta’s first works were made on a loom, but soon Inta dared to focus on the new art direction, and Heimrat only encouraged: “Do it, do it, do it…”
This is how Inta Amoliņa sees the coastal dunes. Photo: irliepaja.lv.
Since then, Inta Amoliņa has been “painting” with fabric, and her tools are scissors, a sewing machine, a needle and also paint, because in order to get the desired shade, Inta has dyed many fabrics herself. Her source of inspiration is nature.
Inta Amoliņa’s works are in the Museum of the Latvian Union of Artists, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, the Latvian National Art Museum, as well as in other museums and private collections. Works exhibited in exhibitions in Belgium, France, Estonia, Great Britain, Lithuania, Netherlands and Germany.
Nature is a constant source of inspiration for Inta Amoliņa. Photo: irliepaja.lv.
The opening of the “Piekraste” exhibition is on Friday, September 29, at 5 p.m. in the “Ludviķis” exhibition gallery at Ludviķa Street 3/5.
On Saturday, September 30, at 2:30 p.m., Inta Amoliņa invites you to a master class.
2023-09-28 02:27:17
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