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The book contains materials starting with watercolor reproductions of the study period and ending with very recently created objects and installations. Also included are illustrations by Māliņa and cover designs for the magazine “Avots”, of which she was the artistic editor from the end of the 80’s until the liquidation of the magazine in the early 90’s. In the book, texts alternate with reproductions of works, photographs from Māliņa’s personal archive, project sketches, newspaper clippings and conversations with people close to her.
“It’s hard to write about what causes true experience. Especially when it’s caused by art that is stingy in words. In those cases, there is a desire not to think about what’s around, but only about the work of art itself. It’s harder not to “because you have to brainstorm to find the right words, but because when you write about art that moves itself, something forces you to start justifying. As a moment after confessing in love. Such dissonance is caused to me by the works of Sarmīte Māliņa,” writes the author of the monograph Tomass Supers.
Sarmīte Māliņa entered Latvian contemporary art in the early 1990s, participating in large-scale group exhibitions that challenged the visual art conventions existing at the time. Along with the works of Kristaps Ģelzis, Ojārs Pētersons, Oļegs Tillbergs, Andris Brežes and others, Sarmīte Māliņa stood out with her pronounced laconicism.
Thomas Parup is an art critic and curator. In 2017, the publishing house “Neputns” published his first book about the artist Maija Kurševs (in the series “Studio Library”). The monograph dedicated to Sarmīte Māliņa is the result of two years of cooperation between her and the artist.
Simultaneously with the publication of the monograph, an exhibition of Sarmīte Māliņa’s works is opened in the gallery “Alma”. It is open from September 18 to 31.
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