With the exhibition “Good morning!” the activities of the gallery “Istaba” regularly changing exhibitions will resume / Article / LSM.lv

With the exhibition “Good morning!” The regularly changing exhibitions of the gallery “Room” will resumeBaiba Kušķe00:00 / 05:25

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The exhibition will feature Marta Gibiete’s latest works – three-dimensional glass sculptures in the form of buds, which also echoes the title of the exhibition “Good Morning!”, Evoking thoughts about the beginning of something new in various meanings.

Marta Gibiete’s workshop has a small anteroom, which she calls her office with humor, and in which the exhibition works are still placed on various surfaces at that time. Colored glass objects resembling buds.

The artist’s own cell, as she says, is much bigger. All around there is glass in various formats and shapes and its processing accessories – glass cutters, pliers, paints, pencils, glues and much more. The heart of the cell itself is undoubtedly the glass melting furnace.

“The oven is my best friend. Right now it’s 150 degrees, I have a big, big plate in there right now, so I don’t want to open it, if there were any small things, then we could open it,” says Gibiete.

A large coil with metal wires attracts attention near the oven. It is also a very important material for making Martha’s works, because she fastens the components of her spatial objects with copper wires.

“Get them in the required thickness – there are already different stories worthy of hunters, but you can still order something, you can find something in” Latgale “, for example, it is wonderful when some relatives have found or brought something, so such channels are “And then the big coil that can be seen there was a huge success in one of the shoppers’ offices, when I saw it, I said – I take everything! Because that is the thickness of my objects,” says Gibiete.

Spatial objects in which glass details are connected together with copper wires are Marta Ģibiete’s special author’s technique, which she has discovered and has been working on since her studies. She is known for it not only in Latvia, but also abroad.

The latest works are also made in this technique, and the author himself describes them as mood works, which are united by the title of the exhibition “Good Morning”.

“All in all, the show was inspired by my daughters, I have teenage daughters. When you see the process of their formation and when you think about what will happen next. This beauty with sharpness and finesse together … I was inspired by the feeling of the beginning. But it all seems to me to go hand in hand with our daily rhythm, with the fact that each day is a new beginning, it’s like a routine, we already know everything that will happen, and in life we ​​imagine what it should be. But how it all develops, and whether there is always that joy and also what is included in the “Good morning” that is such a call to a new day, it is a greeting as if with such an uplift. How often do we open our eyes, think – oh, again a new day, again all the same, and it ” good morning! ” if not miss, then often not so happy at all, “says Gibiete.

In poetic glass sculptures, color intertwines with form, and in this interplay, the artist’s own mood is inadvertently reflected at the time of creating the works. The exhibition was also scheduled to open in the spring, but this was not possible due to the pandemic. For a moment Marta considered adding summer mood to the exhibition, but she changed her mind.

“I started creating the works at the end of January, in February, but what I was interested in when March was approaching – because I worked more, because they became more colorful with the approach of spring. I couldn’t help but notice it. So I did the works at the beginning of the year and then In the middle of the summer, I thought that maybe something had to be changed or something new had to be created, because the feelings were different, but when I returned to these works, I decided not to add anything new, concluding that that such daily routine reflections are still relevant to me, “says the artist.

In the gallery “Istaba” this will be the third solo exhibition of Gibiete and the head of the gallery, artist Linda Lūse does not cease to admire the artist’s ability to so skillfully circumvent the complex nature of glass technology to create something so beautiful and unique.

“The contrast is interesting in that her works require a long, tedious, patient take, but when you look at them, it really feels like a bud that has just bloomed, no path of torment in those works is noticeable. In the end, there is lightness, And, of course, Marta is one of those people who has carried the name of Latvia in the world through glass art for many years, “explains Lūse.

Gibiete’s solo exhibition “Good morning!” The gallery “Room” is open from Tuesday, September 8, and with it the gallery will resume the regularly changing exhibitions.

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