From 12 November 2022 to 26 February 2023 in the main building of the Latvian National Art Museum, Janas Rozentālas Square 1, in Riga, a major exhibition “The Art of Imanta Lancmanis” will be set up.
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According to the curator of the exhibition, art scholar Helena Demakova, although Imantas Lancmani’s work can be brought together in the flow of contemporary postmodern painting, the artist himself has chosen to label it as conceptual romanticism. Understanding the legacy of the old masters, studies of nature and vivid imagination equally influenced the imagery of his works.
In the Great Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMM), there will be thematically grouped paintings by Imantas Lancmanis, which have been created since 1958.
Imants Lanczmanis He graduated from the Painting Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts in 1966. Since then, he has cultivated his individual calligraphy and embodied his worldview in all classical genres of painting. Several cycles of paintings – works on the theme of the Bible and the cycle of the Oaks – come to the viewer for the first time. The exhibition also displays portraits, chamber still lifes and landscapes.
According to Demakova, there was a pause in the work of Imantas Lancmani, when she worked intensively, directing Rundale Castle museum, researching and describing evidence of art history, teaching style at the Latvian Academy of Art for 17 years. Separate sections of the exhibition reveal these facets of the artist’s creative work and introduce the stages of the creation of painting: photographs, sketches, cartoons. The work of the title of the exhibition is “Self-portrait at the oak sowing on September 27, 2019”, in which the author – serious, with a camera in his hand – is in the nature of Latvia, close to one of the important symbols of the people Latvian.
The exhibition includes works from the Latvian National Museum of Art, the future Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Rundāle Palace Museum and the Bauska Museum, the collection of the Latvian Academy of Arts, the Union of Latvian Artists, the Academy of Latvian sciences, the Zuzān collection, the collection of the Teterev patrons family, from the art collections in liquidation AS “ABLV Bank” and many private collections.
The curator of the exhibition is the art scholar Helēna Demakova, the artist and graphic designer of the exhibition is Professor Ojārs Pēterson of the Latvian Academy of Arts.
The exhibition is complemented by an extensive program of events and educational events, including “Conversations in the museum”, lectures, lectures for children, adults and seniors.
