The well-known Latvian artist Edgars Mikelsons is a long-standing friend of the BIArt gallery of our Baltic International Academy. His solo exhibitions have been held here many times and were always well received by BIA students and teaching staff. Art lovers were delighted and even surprised by the artist’s New Year’s vernissage. Before the New Year, he presented an original exhibition entitled “The Image of One Woman.”
The core of the exhibition consists of about fifteen portraits of one charming and cheerful woman, depicted from different angles, in various settings and moods. The captions beneath the portraits draw attention – ranging from humorous ones such as “Learning is light, and ignorance is darkness” to semi-serious titles like “A lady in a bad mood.” Although her name does not appear in any of the works, the artist does not hide the fact that the woman depicted in the portraits is his muse and wife, Iolanta, who has inspired him to new works and achievements for a quarter of a century.
Moreover, the artist himself notes: “These portraits do not merely depict her image, consciously and unconsciously, they reflect everything she has given to my creative work – faith in the power of my brush, the courage to experiment, and discover new things in painting.”
According to the exhibition’s organiser and curator, member of the Union of Artists Valentin Danilenko, this new solo exhibition is vivid evidence of the multifaceted talent of Edgars Mikelsons. His works are of interest not only to art lovers but also to artists. They convincingly demonstrate that there are no limits to the flight of imagination and the search for new forms in depicting the surrounding world.
The exposition also features landscapes by the urban romanticist Edgars Mikelsons, convincingly demonstrating the distinctive style of this renowned master.
The exhibition is located in the BIA building at 1/4 Valerijas Seiles Street and will run until the end of February.
In the photos: the artist’s muse Iolanta, whose image is depicted in the portraits. Riga landscape by Edgars Mikelsons.
