“Against the Tragic Wall” – installation by artists Virtmanis and Vētra acquires musical accompaniment / Article / LSM.lv

The exhibition hall “Riga Art Space” continues the tradition started last year to organize art and music concert evenings “1xMMM”. Due to gathering restrictions, the latest evening will be available online. The musical performance is complemented by artists Artūrs Virtmanis and Daniela Vētra at the end of October performances created during graphic installation “Against the tragic wall”. –

The artwork “Against the Tragic Wall” created during the performance of artists Artūrs Virtmanis and Daniela Vētra in the “Riga Art Space” tells about the interaction of personal and external impulses. Continuing the cycle of concert evenings “1xMMM” started last year, a musical addition has been made to the work of art by Virtmanis and Vētra. The pianist Agnese Egliņa has chosen the musical score especially for this work of art.

“The performance begins with a white page with the inscription “I have a dream”, which could rather be translated not as a dream, but “I have hope, a dream, a thought”. And then behind these spears you fight for this dream, or it is like a danger in which you dream again and you have a spear that disrupts the realization of this dream, ”explained Egliņa.

“Since everything starts in white in the performance and goes to the highest point we see in the exhibition and we see on this wall, we will start from this point and slowly go back to the clean, white sheet.”

The musical content of the program will consist of compositions by contemporary composers Pēteris Vasks, Filips Glass, Platon Buravics and others performed by the string quartet of musicians Guntis Kuzma, Linards Kalniņš and Simfonietta Rīga. The design of the sound effects of the performance is created by DJ Monsta (Uldis Cīrulis).

“I have two outputs,” Cīrulis revealed. “One of the outcomes will be using the sounds of these spears to create rhythms. By expressing the attack or what happens to a person on a daily basis, when something is forbidden all the time or dreams are destroyed. But the second outcome is light-tasting, knowing that everything will be fine. It will all end once and there will be light! ”

The interaction between the work of art “Against the Tragic Wall” and music will be available on December 10 at 8 pm on the page of the exhibition hall “Riga Art Space” on the website “Facebook”.

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