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The large-scale exposition that the LNMM and the Suta and Beļcova Museum show from their collection in Daugavpils is dedicated to two bright personalities of Latvian art history, representatives of classical modernism.
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Sujunšalijeva explained that at the beginning of the 20th century, many family couples are known among modernist artists. Sonja and Robert Delone, Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, Alexander Vesnin and Lubova Popova, Alexei Kručenih and Olga Rozanova, Gustav Klucis and Valentina Kulagina, Alexander Drevins and Nadezhda Uzda Art historians highlight this fact as a special cultural phenomenon of the early 20th century. In Latvia, such a pair of artists was Suta and Beļcova.
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“In each of these duos, the relationship was formed according to different scenarios, however, mostly the leading role belonged to men,”
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commented Sujunshalieva.
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According to her, Suta has been active both as an artist, working in various fields – painting, graphics, scenography, applied art and design – and as a theorist, writing texts on the art of modernism. Belcova, on the other hand, did not seek publicity, so there may have been a misconception among art critics and spectators of the interwar period that the artist was in the shadow of her husband.
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Suta and Beļcova were members of the Riga group of artists. After leaving the group in 1926, they joined the group of artists and poets “Green Crow”. The brightest time of both works is the 1920s. The two were linked by French modernism – cubism, purism, new realism – as evidenced by their paintings and graphics at the time.
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Romans Suta. Self-portrait. 1929
PHOTO: book cover
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The brightest episode of their collaboration is the legendary porcelain painting workshop “Baltars”, founded together with Sigismund Vidbergs. In this exhibition, sketches of Suta and Beļcova’s dish paintings are exhibited, allowing the audience to get to know a small but expressive part of this aspect of creativity as well.
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The parents ‘heritage was preserved and bequeathed to the state by the artists’ daughter Tatjana Suta. Currently, the apartment where they lived has a museum named after Suta and Beļcova – a structural unit of LNMM.
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