Exhibition of Latvian decorative art and design
From 16 November, 2011 till 5 February, 2012 the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design will offer the exhibition ”Re-novation”
With this exhibition the museum continues the tradition of organizing annual exhibitions of contemporary decorative applied art and design. The objective of these shows is to invite all artists who work in different decorative applied art disciplines and designers to participate and demonstrate their artistic viewpoints and artworks on one specially chosen exhibition theme of the year.
The annual exhibition ”Intimate in Art” in 2009 and ”Art Optimization” in 2010 attracted great public acclaim and the organizers hope that this year the exhibition will be even more successful.
This year's exhibition under the title ”Re-novation” is envisaged as an art show, which will reflect the main directions, innovations and phenomena in the fields of Latvian contemporary applied art and design. The objective of the exhibition is to discover the many sided creative expressions of the artists and make an attempt to characterize the overall situation in these fields at present. ”Re-novation” includes multitude of themes and stylistic expressions, application of various technologies and materials, it also will disclose ”the second life” of materials after recycling, showing unconventional approaches and possibilities of repeated material usage. The exhibition will display artworks by renowned artists in the field, as well as students of the Art Academy of Latvia. The viewers of the exhibition are invited to vote for The Best Work of the Show.
