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| THE PRISON’S “SILVER LINING”. Studija interviews Jānis Borgs In April and May at the Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, we will witness a hitherto unseen event - the 20th anniversary commemoration of an exhibition. A generation of artists only just born at the time of the 1984 exhibition "Nature. Environment. Man" will try anew to give content to this concept. The 1984 exhibition is the stuff of legend. It is regarded as a turning point for the acceptance of new art phenomena in Latvian culture, and in fact it is the starting point for discussion of contemporary art in Latvia in the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition is most closely connected with the name of Ojārs Ābols, a painter and theoretician who was a unique personality for this time and place on account of his comprehensive knowledge and intellectual study of art, and in terms of his depth of analysis and appreciation of contemporary phenomena. However, the exhibition "Nature. Environment. Man" held in April 1984 in the extensive space of St Peter's Church, within the frame of the Days of Art, opened in memory of Ojārs Ābols, since the artist himself was no longer among us. Studija has chosen for its major interview the artist and theoretician Jānis Borgs, whose name is closely connected with this exhibition and the implementation of the project, turning into a reality the concept developed by Ojārs Ābols. |
