group exhibition “TEXT=IMAGE”

kim? 

From the 9th of February till the 18th of March at kim? Contemporary Art Centre an exhibition “TEXT=IMAGE” – team work by artist and curator Inga Brūvere and art historian Aiga Dzalbe can be seen on the 2nd floor of the Centre.


_{Krišs Salmanis. Nooooo. 2008.}

The exhibition is supplemented by a publication that collects essays by mg. art. Aiga Dzalbe, dr. Philol. Ilva Skulte and curator and writer Pieternel Vermoortel that are dedicated to interaction between language and art and accomplished by visual material. The issue will be opened on the 1st of March at 7 pm.

The title “TEXT=IMAGE” reflects the goal of the exhibition – to inquire relations between text and image in Latvian art. The dynamics and the notional aspects is object of research for Aiga Dzalbe who describes the conception by: “Word has strength – the history has warned us all. But does a word have a certain appearance? The intention of the exhibition is initiated by a question – how can word/ writing/ text replace the form or interact with it– create images, express ideas by means of expression by visual art.”
The exhibition-research that is done in cooperation with curator and artist Inga Brūvere is a challenge to superficial view that linguistically orientated art does not have any tradition in Latvia. It might be the reason why no one has tried to display it in entirety that might bring unexpected notion completely different on things known so well.


_{Ivars Grāvlejs. From Pīča to Pīča. 2010.}

The exhibition “TEXT=IMAGE” (a research challenging to highlight and break local clichés of perception of art) examines potential of text in visual art work by searching contiguity between visual arts and linguistics. The exhibition consists of works made in different periods, in various media and by different generations who have inspired the curators by their interest to work with language and capability to thin conceptually.

The participants of the exhibition: Kristīne Alksne, Arturs Bērziņš, Juris Boiko, Ēriks Božis, Inga Brūvere, Ivars Grāvlejs, Leonards Laganovskis, tekstgrupa "Orbīta", Laura Prikule, Krišs Salmanis, Gundega Strautmane.

Thanks to: Valsts Kultūrkapitāla fonds, ABLV Charitable Foundation, ASV vēstniecība Latvijā, MMIC, Antalis AS, LNMM, Mūkusalas Mākslas salons, LMC, GroGlass, žurnāls Studija, izdevniecība Neputns, Barton&Guestier vines, restorāns Kitchen,Valmiermuižas alus, Kolonna, VKN.

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