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| GREY MATTER: Kirils Panteļejevs Ieva Lejasmeijere To say something light and precise about an artist who works lightly and precisely comes neither lightly nor precisely. I am offering a finicky and quite heavy, yet sufficiently truthful claim that Kirils Panteļejevs is one of the most brilliant flowers in the bouquet of contemporary Latvian sculptors. He was born in Riga on 11th April 1969. He graduated from the Sculpting department of the Latvian Academy of Art in 1994 and spent a year at Humboldt University in the USA. Since 1995 he has had six solo exhibitions in various Riga galleries and has participated in group shows in Latvia and abroad. He has consistently taken part in the annual exhibitions organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, in the Bolderāja environmental art actions, the open-air exhibitions at Pedvāle and in the Riga International Sculpture Quadrennials. He teaches in the Sculpture Department of the Riga Secondary School of Art and Design. In 2002 he received the Annual Prize of the Latvian Artists' Union and the Culture Capital Foundation for the best environmental object - "Float" on the Daugava river by the Noass gallery. ("Float" was a joint effort with Iveta Laure. It is a figure of an ice angler in the spirit of trivial realism, "sitting" on a polystyrene ice floe.) Kirils Panteļejevs works with sculpture, sculpture and sculpture. In the traditional and non-traditional expressions, as well as in those that are far from sculpture, we can sense a constructive and precise approach to the material and the concept. The idea is formulated profoundly and clearly, but at the same time, lightly and without saturating or complicating perception of the work. In Buddhist calm, so to speak. The artist's attitude towards his profession is well demonstrated by his 1996 work "Point and Plane" in Pedvāle. To this day it is his most labour intensive work. |
| A HOUSE WITH ADDED VALUE OR ARCHITECT: Andris kronbergs Laima Slava I seem to know only one architect of middle age, the mentioning of whose name since he first gained recognition with his projects at the beginning of 1980s, still always creates a positive response full of respect. It might seem even suspicious were he not ANDRIS KRONBERGS. |
