Albums Gentle oscillations summarizes the performance of the group – Ievas Iltneres, Sandras Krastiņas, Jāņas Mitrēvicas, Āirts Muižnieks, Edgars Vērpes, Aijas Zariņas – in a broader perspective of the turn of the 80s and 90s and already today. The book was compiled by Sandra Krastiņa, design: Inta Sarkane.
Exhibition-promotion Gentle oscillations In 1990, it caused a great resonance in the cultural environment of Latvia and it is considered as an important artistic event even today. At that time, the public perceived it as a visualization of the great change. The authors created the works of art in the presence of the audience in the exhibition hall Latvia. The creation process itself was claimed as an art event. At the end of the campaign, an exposition was created, it was opened and closed within one day.
Through the activity experience of one group of artists, the book outlines a period of thirty years in the cultural landscape of Latvian visual art. Its first part traces the group’s joint exhibitions from 1981 to 1990, culminating in an exhibition-action Gentle oscillations. The second part presents a portrait of each artist with essays and reproductions of works by various authors, focusing on the individual path and place in the Latvian contemporary art scene. The contribution of the artists in the book is presented in the context of the group’s overall activity, transparently showing and emphasizing the development of each artist directly in the mutual connection.
To show promotions Gentle oscillations performative writing and marked visual codes of time, the album is complemented by documentary photographs by Uldas Briež, Gunārs Janaš, Jānis Deinats, Guido Kajon, Jānis Krūmiņš, Aivars Liepiņš and other photographers, as well as exhibition-promotions Gentle oscillations a full facsimile of the catalog-newspaper and reviews of the exhibitions published in the press.
Sandra Krastiņa: “My story will be about a group of artists who started their creative activity while still being students of the Academy of Arts. In the 1980s, the borders of the USSR had not weakened, especially at the beginning of the decade, Latvian independence still seemed like a utopia. But already after 1985 – the so-called reconstruction and later during the revival – we began to realize freedom as an attainable goal. By following only the themes of our artworks, I think you can read the rise of will that was in fashion in society and for which each of us was increasingly ready.”
Compiler and concept author Sandra Krastiņa.
Text authors: Elita Ansone, Rasa Jansone, Sniedze Kāle, Sandra Krastiņa, Una Meistere, Jānis Mitrēvics, Stella Pelše, Inese Riņke, Laima Slava, Inga Šteimane, Kārlis Vērpe.
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