A good artistic gift for the 31st anniversary of the establishment of our Baltic International Academy was prepared by the student gallery BiArt under the guidance of the well-known artist Valentin Danilenko. It organised a bright, impressive exhibition of works by members of the art studio “EbruLV”.
This studio was created by a longtime friend of our academy, a member of the Union of Artists of Latvia Irina Trumpel, who studied the methods and peculiarities of oriental painting ebru in India and Turkey and introduced it to art lovers in Latvia. She has several times exhibited her works at our academy, conducted a workshop, and now she has presented 77 works of her students, whose age ranges from eight to sixty years, to the audience. They are created using different methods, but the paintings created in the technique ebru, which is called painting on water, attract special attention.
-These works are worth seeing, noted Valentin Danilenko, the curator of the exhibition at its opening. They are colourful, cheerful and impress even masters of traditional painting. This is a kind of impressionism created on water with special colours and depicted on paper.
Indeed, ebru is sometimes superior to watercolour in some ways. This is convincingly evidenced not only by fantastic flowers, but also by genre scenes, for example, “The Ninth Wave” by the talented Dzintra Zhvingule, who is in love with ebru.
The exhibition is located in the BIA building at the Lomonosova street ¼ and will last until the middle of December. Entrance is free during the working hours of the academy.
In the photos: Irina Trumpele and Valentin Danilenko. Participants of the opening of the exhibition. Dzintra Zhvingule and “The Ninth Wave”.
Photos by Dainis Zhvingulis and Natalya Gratkovskaya.
