Ieva Iltnere’ s solo exhibition “Eight Rooms” is on view at the Riga Gallery 1st and 2nd floor from 19 April 2007. The show will feature 9 large-size works painted especially for this exhibition; the artist has depicted interiors of different epochs, including all the encoded information on the time and space. The artist has been interested in the narrative aspect, the events that have happened in these many rooms and people affected by the closed space.
Iltnere took up this theme already in her solo exhibition “My Room” in 2003. Then the artist watched events taking place in her room as through a keyhole. This theme will be developed in the latest exhibition. The artist will invite to contemplate huge canvases with painted rooms, inhabited by images from art history books, design magazines or the artist’ s personal memories (“Bilbao”, “Library”, etc.).
Ieva Iltnere has combined quotes from the field of culture history, interiors of the 1970s, contemporary and futurist elements with the typical post-modernist outlook. For instance, she has removed the Arnolfini couple painted by the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck from Renaissance epoch and dropped them into the 21st century hotel apartments. The motif of Madonna and Child has received a new interpretation, being transformed into the image of androgynous model (“Tenderness and Danger”). In the painted high design interior of a footwear shop the artist conveys her irony about the passions of our age and the material world as a social fetish, fascinating but short-lived (“Ideal Projection”).
Ieva ILtnere (b. 1957) entered the art scene of Latvia together with young painters of her generation in the early 1980s. Her contemporaries radically changed the society’s ideas on Latvian figural painting.
Iltnere is one of the most prominent and creative artists of her generation. Her art is capable of speaking about great themes significant for both individual and society through an intimate subject. ILtnere has created her own system of images with a particularly individual style, influenced by different world cultures, 20th century avant-garde art and popular culture, synthesizing traditional painterly means and conceptual approach.
Ieva Iltnere’s works are found in the collections of Latvian National Art Museum (former State Museum of Art), Artists’ Union of Latvia Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Ludwig Museum in Aachen, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey, private collections in Latvia and abroad.
Exhibition supported by:
State Culture Capital Foundation
Publications:
Inga Šteimane "Atdoties gribu tikai gleznai" // Kultūras forums - 4 - 11 May 2007
Ieva Lejasmeijere "Istabas ar augstspriegumu" // Kultūras forums - 4 - 11, May 2007
Sniedze Sofija Kāle "Cilvēks telpas režģī" // Neatkarīgā rīta avīze - May 2, 2007 - http://www.nra.lv/index.php?rid=49913&tips=1 Stella Pelše "Interjeru stāsti" // Kultūras Diena - April 27, 2007 - http://www.diena.lv/kulturas_diena/lasit.php?id=303681
Zane Radzobe "Plaģiāts vai iedvesmas avots?" // Kultūras Diena - April 27, 2007 - http://www.diena.lv/kulturas_diena/lasit.php?id=303687
Наталия Морозова “Красный – не мой цвет” // Телеграф – April 23, 2007
"Iltnere izstāžu telpu pārvērš istabās" // Nedēļa - April 16, 2007
Inita Saulīte - Zandere "Greznība gleznot" // Pastaiga - May 2007 |
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IEVA ILTNERE. Bilbao
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Library
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Ideal Projection
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Tenderness and Danger
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Couple of Arnolfini in Design Hotel
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Plasma
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Fragility of the Fireball
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Blood-Puding
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Hurricane Katrina
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