From January 25 to March 11, artist Ilze Preisa’s personal exhibition “Metaphoric games” will be on view in the first floor hall of “MuseumLV” gallery.
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The exhibition exhibits lithographs made by Preisa, in which the artist continues the themes realized in the paintings, but thanks to the technique and black and white aesthetics, other intonations are formed. The artist herself says: “In these works, it’s as if I relax myself, thus also relaxing my mind from the world’s saturation of “colors.”
In the exhibition “Metaphorical games”, five musical compositions of the Swedish musician and composer Fredrik Carlquist (clarinet, saxophone) are played, which were inspired by the paintings of the painter Ilze Preiss. This music was played for the first time in Barcelona, at the exhibition “Metaphorical Space” by Iise Preiss.
According to art scholar Diana Barčevska, symbol is the key word for Ilze Preisa’s artistic practice, which includes painting and graphics.
“This concept can be applied to all the elements we encounter in Preis’s art – the depicted objects and the colors used. They are combined in surrealistic compositions that encourage the viewer to indulge in the excitement of translating the content of the works,” writes Barčevska.
According to the art scholar, Ilze Preisa uses Greek myth and biblical motifs in her works, but without setting specific boundaries for the understanding of the offered symbols. According to Barčevska, often the characters of biblical plots and ancient mythology become accurate exponents of current ideas of the era in the modern context.
“The presence of mythological motifs, which we encounter in the works of Preiss, is a common phenomenon in modern art, which indicates the timelessness of mythological themes. The works are dominated by references to images of the world’s cultural heritage, but by highlighting one or another plot, the artist emphasizes personal stories that are important to her. With mythology through images, the artist tells about human nature, human qualities – passion, betrayal, anger, love. Human nature does not change. Therefore, the associations created by these images are perfectly useful for highlighting one or another aspect of human nature,” writes the art scholar.
In Ilze Preisa’s art, the iconography includes the most diverse images – a bull, a symbol of power and the power of the earth, which causes tension with its presence of force, a dress as a symbol of transformation and disguise suggests with its irritating energy, exotic birds, both beautiful and frightening, the beautiful Medea, whose head is decorated the elegant snakes that repel and tempt at the same time, the curtain that covers the unknown space and encourages you to decide – to open it to view or not, cats with wings – the effective symbols of power.
A significant element in almost every work of this exhibition is the black-and-white floor arranged in a checkerboard pattern, where we can recognize well-known environments in the history of art, from Renaissance rooms to today’s modern rooms. This element tends to combine the works of the exhibition into one story consisting of many continuations.
An important element of Ilze Preisa’s art is color, which the artist organically incorporates into her theory of symbols. It is almost impossible to determine which of the elements used in artistic practice more accurately expresses the symbolic message of Preisa’s artworks – color or the depicted object. Ideally, they complement each other and live in perfect symbiosis.
