Graphic artist Paul Pelše and painter Klāvs Loris have merged photography, offset printing, coal drawings and painting for this first joint exhibition.  The original artworks and ambient sounds are part of an installation that seeks to capture the moment of confluence between people and natural processes, with the artists trying to draw close to the point where absolute synergy can be transferred into visual form.

 

The artists have created vibrations of sign and sound, with artworks that involve plywood upon which soil, moss, trees, sand and human flesh merge into a single whole.  This has been a process of phases, with one of the artists starting the work, and then the other taking it over and developing it.  Klāvs and Paula continued to send the artworks back and forth until they reached the desired stage.  The process was chosen to materialise the idea of confluence between two artists and their artworks, merging the documentation of the process into a personal exhibition.

 

Klāvs Loris (b 1988) is a graduate of the Latvian Academy of Art and has studied at the Brera Academy of Art in Milan.  He has staged three personal exhibitions.  The latest, “Essme” was at the Mūkusala Art Salon.  Since 2009, Klāvs Loris has taken part in many group exhibitions throughout Europe, receiving the European New Work Grand Prix in 2015, a SEB Bank stipend for painting in 2013, and an art premium from Brederlo vnk Sengbusch in 2012.

 

Paula Pelše (b 1988) was graduated as a graphic artist from the Latvian Academy of Art and has also studied at the University of Porto.  She has taken part in art exhibitions since 2012.  Her personal exhibition “Dual” was her debut at the “Mala” art space in Cēsis and the Office Gallery of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Rīga.

 

Curator:  Elīna Sproģe