Video series:
Story of a Painting I
Educational video project "Story of a Painting" consists of 10 video mini-episodes on separate works of art created in the 1980s and 90s.
Starting from the 1980s, the art scene in Latvia began to experience significant transformations. Such forms of art as German Neo-expressionism, Italian transavantgarde, American Bad Painting, Abstractionism and Conceptualism appeared in the Latvian art world.
This period marks significant transformations in Latvian cultural space, when politics, ecology and social life frequently were the source of artists' ideas. The interviews with the artists present a direct, unmediated perspective on the context in which the works were created.
Some of the artists who contributed to the changes in Latvian art in the 1980s and 1990s and share their individual experiences about the creation of the artworks are: Ieva Iltnere (“Russian language”, 1994), Andris Breže (“Political Box I”, “Political Box II”, “Box of Quotes”, 1990), Sandra Krastiņa (“Is it the Wind?”, 1999), Daina Dagnija (“The Fallen One I”, 1987), Helēna Heinrihsone (“Woman — Christ”, 1989), Ģirts Muižnieks (“In the Garden”, 1989), Juris Utāns (“At the Bus Stop”, 1987), Dzintars Zilgalvis (“Last Balcony. Dedication to the Painter's Section of the Artists Union”, 1990), Leonards Laganovskis (“To Your Health, I Shop at Engles, I Shop at Lenin's”, 1989) and Māris Subačs (“Landscape with Patched Drums”, 1989).
Latvian National Museum of Art's project "Story of a Painting I" was produced in partnership with law firm "Ellex Kļaviņš".
The videos are available on the Latvian National Museum of Art's YouTube channel.
