The art exhibition “Terra Baltica” (Land of the Baltic) aroused considerable interest among students, teaching staff and guests of our Baltic International Academy. It features landmarks and landscapes of little-known places in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia with unusual names –Stamerene, Nurmuiza, Klapkalnciems and others. These paintings are a kind of declaration of love for their native land, since they are not imaginary but created by Jurmala artists during creative plein air sessions.
The exhibition features about forty works of various formats and styles by representatives of the Independent Community of Jurmala Artists: Svetlana Proskurovskaya, Olga Peregud, Tatyana Kalvish and Galina Golubchikova, who is the head of this creative association.
This exhibition, she notes, is a kind of invitation to see the Baltics through the eyes of Jurmala artists, who know its caprices and metamorphoses, do not cease to admire it and help viewers see beauty in familiar landscapes. Undoubtedly, scenes of Jurmala occupy a special place in the exposition.
Curator of the BIArt gallery, member of the Artists’ Union of Latvia Valentin Danilenko agrees with her opinion. At the exhibition opening he noted that the Jurmala artists themselves like what they have depicted in their paintings. And if the artist’s heart is put in their creation, they touch the hearts of the viewers as well.
The exhibition is located in the BIA building at 1/4 Valerijas Seiles Street and will run until mid-April.
In the photos: the exhibition participants thank its curator Valentin Danilenko for organising the exhibition. “Jurmala Sunset” by Galina Golubchikova. “The Charm of Jurmala Summer Houses” as depicted by Olga Peregud.
Photos by Georgy Kozlov and Olga Sokolova
