Art light and shadow games at the puppet art festival / Article / LSM.lv

Thanks to the exhibition of the European Professional Puppet Art Festival, art light and shadow games will take place in the premises of the Latvian Railway Museum until September 23. The festival, cherished by the artist Ināra Liepa, changes direction and gradually includes not only puppetry, but also sculpture and textile works, kinetic objects, painting and installations.

This year, during the European Professional Puppet Art Festival, the artist Ināra Liepa is not organizing a puppet exhibition, but a mysteriously meditative exhibition “Art Light and Shadow Games”. The Latvian Railway Museum brings together representatives of various fields of art and their works of art, in which the interplay of moonlight can be seen.

“I wanted to take a bid off last year, and I deliberately invited artists who are not puppet artists but who are compatible with this field of art.

Because the doll consists of sculpture, painting, textile art.

All these branches of art can be combined there, ”explains the organizer of the festival, the author of the exhibition concept Ināra Liepa.

“Almost all branches of art are represented here, and I offer them to participate in the exhibition, but on one condition – works must be exhibited, of which the shadow is also a work of art and in fact a primary work of art. Here you see unique things, because shadows are not only static, but also moving. ”

Liepa says that, for example, the work of the sculptor Ivars Miķelsons shows a shadow in motion. “We have 12 carousels specially created for this exhibition, on which some works are placed, and then this shadow gets moving,” notes Liepa.

“This is the rare case, it doesn’t happen often when another artist allows you to see your work from another side and finds him a different perspective,” emphasizes the sculptor Ivars Miķelsons.

A special place in the exhibition is dedicated to the Ināra Liepa Traveling Puppet Art Museum, which lives in coffin houses and covers the period from 1820 to the 1970s.

“The main thing – I wanted to give people the opportunity to meet their toys again, because there are also a lot of things donated by Rigans here,” says Ināra Liepa.

“It is such an honor to give back to Latvia’s childhood heritage, because here are only things belonging to the people of Latvia, which have been given to me, which I have inherited from my relatives, who have bought in flea markets, here is a unique collection that is still looking for a home.

I hope that a wonderful Latvian citizen will think that the only Puppet Museum in Latvia could be there. ”

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