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“The image of the Riga Stock Exchange is undeniably connected with Italy, which is also reflected in the building built in the glorious Venetian palazzo forms. Therefore, it was a clear choice to mark this anniversary, just like the opening of the museum premises, with the presence of Italian culture. 10 years ago it was the collection of glass objects of the Berengo studio “Glasstress Riga” and a year later – the work of Dmitry Gutov in the atrium of the “Gondola” museum. This summer it will be a interplay of contemporary and classical art in “Self-Revelation”. The exhibition is created in collaboration with the world-famous Galleria degli Uffizi and would not have been possible without the support of the Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation. After 10 years of experience, we can say for sure – we and the Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation are friends for big dreams and big projects, ”reveals Daiga Upeniece, the head of the Riga Stock Exchange Art Museum.
Italian contemporary artists Omar Galliani and Lorenzo Puglisi will introduce the audience to large-format compositions created especially for the exhibition, whose ideas and choice of means of artistic expression are rooted in the Italian painting tradition. Both artists have repeatedly created joint exhibitions in Italy – Milan Museo Francesco Messina (2018), Naples Pio Monte della Misericordia (2017) and Sicilian Museum of Contemporary Art Palazzo Riso Palermo (2016) – so the exhibition at the Riga Stock Exchange can be considered a purposeful continuation of their creative collaboration. .
Each author will exhibit seven works in the exhibition, which will form a dialogue about such important values of existence: man’s place in the world, beautiful and valuable, threats and fears, courage and love. Although the artistic manuscripts of Galliano and Puljizi are very different, they are united by a faith in the search for artistic truth by the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.
Self-discovery and the search for the essential clearly dominate the fragility and delicacy of the interaction of the plot elements, background and details of Galljani’s drawings and paintings. In the work of Puljizi, the heritage of Renaissance masters has a special role – his self-revelation is rooted in paraphrases about the compositions of painters of the past. His paintings on a monochrome, juicy black background with sharp, rich strokes highlight the light-accentuated focus elements in the compositions of the masterpieces chosen by the artist – faces, hands, silhouettes, folds of costumes.
Both artists are united by the view that the great teachers of the past are an inexhaustible source of inspiration, both in art and in the way an artist must serve his talent. Therefore, the center of the exhibition will be the “Portrait of a Young Man” by the outstanding Renaissance Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Tintoretto, 1518–1594), which will be shown for the first time in Riga thanks to the collaboration with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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