Riga Porcelain Museum continues the series of exhibitions devoted to the artists who worked for Riga Porcelain Factory on creating the design of industrial produce as well as made authored pices.
This year solo exhibitions for the following artists have already been held – Dace Bluma, Inese Margevica, Beatrise Karklina and Aija Murniece. The final exhibition of 2016 from 15 December to 29 January, 2017 will feature the pieces created by artist Ilga Dreiblate (1933). The decorative vases and plates, china sets and kits designed in 1970s as well as souvenirs the artist continues to make will provide a wide-range insight into the artist’s creative work.
Almost all Ilga Dreiblate’s life has been devoted to porcelain art. After graduating from the Ceramics Department of Riga Applied School of Art in 1953, Ilga Dreiblate worked for Riga Porcelain Factory for many years. There she was mostly engaged in designing decorations for china, such as industrially made decals as well as unique authored paintings. It was seldom that she made china shapes. After closing the factory she has been working on creating various souvenirs and still continues her creative work. Her strengths mainly lie in ornamental decorations. As Veronika Kucinska has stated in 1996 encyclopaedia „Latvia and Latvians. Art and architecture in biographies 2" Dreiblate irs an “outstanding master of graphical scripts". The artist’s handwriting can be characterized by nature motifs and their stylizations as well as figural compositions and depiction of architecture. Among the most significant artist’s themes there is the reflection of the city landscapes (mostly in Riga) and creation of images for children’s china sets.
In the solo exhibition "All Life with Porcelain” along with unique authored pieces created in 1970s and 1980s Ilga Dreiblate will also offer new ones. The motifs of her latest works come from fairy tales. In them the artist has made use of the drafts once designed for the children china sets. The exhibition will feature the pieces in belonging to the author, Riga Porcelain Museum as well as collection of Riga Museum of History and Shipping.
Publicity photo: Decorative plate. 1970. Author Ilga Dreiblate. Collection of Riga Porcelain Museum.