Are there vertical boundaries? The graphics festival «Printmaking IN» / Article will take place

The international graphic arts festival “Printmaking IN” will be opened with three exhibitions on July 21, offering to get to know the works of artists from the Baltic and Danish countries.

“There are different horizontal boundaries between us on a daily basis – distance, belonging, different practical conditions, but the theme of the festival challenges to find out whether there are also vertical boundaries. What unites us and what separates us in beliefs, values, tastes, looks or prejudices?

Perhaps it is the vertical boundary that connects and connects, despite the constraints restrictions and other obstacles? ”announced in the festival application.

The exhibition “Vertical Border” of the Baltic group of artists, curated by Ieva Nagliņa and Al Paldrok (Estonia), will be on display at the LMS Gallery or the Great Hall of the Latvian Artists’ Union. Artists will take part in the exhibition: Taje Devilgirl & Anonymous Boh, Tõnis Laanemaa (Estonia), Ilze Lībiete, Arturs Virtmanis (Latvia), Vaiva Kovieraitė Trumpė (Lithuania).

The exhibition “Ha-BiBi-TaT” by a group of Danish artists will take place in the Presidential Hall. Curator Rasmus Danø (Denmark) has invited artists: Lone Arendal, Bjarne Agerbo, Lauritz Gulløv, Adele Rammes, Hanne Ravn Hermansen and Lars Grenaa. According to the authors, the theme of the exhibition is derived from the term ‘habitat’, while the name ‘Ha-BiBi-TaT’ is a tribute to the Dadaists’ playful approach to creating art and a reference to the Arabic word ‘habibi’, whose friends have met. strangers use each other to show romantic interest. The artists included in this exhibition work with graphic materials in a variety of ways, including both traditional and conceptual and experimental approaches.

In turn, the exhibition of the series of illustrators’ exhibitions “Paintmaster.jpg” will be shown in the “Chamber Gallery”. Curator Jutīne Vernera has invited artists who, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, made drawings in a well-known but quite simple image processing program – “MS Paint”. Authors Ishmaels (Ernests Kļaviņš) and Veidenbaums (Misene) participate in the exhibition.

The exhibitions will be open from 22 July to 22 August 2021 from 12:00 to 18:00.

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