The exhibition of the latest works of the artist Inese Margēviča will be on display at the Riga Porcelain Museum from April 19, 2024 to June 9, 2024.
From April 19, the Riga Porcelain Museum will give you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the colorful and delicate work of Inese Margēviča in her solo exhibition "The Secret Life of Cyclamen". The exhibition will be showcased in the exhibition hall of the museum, part of it - also in the museum windows of the first floor.
Have you ever wondered if plants have personal lives? Inese Margeviča has and thinks that it must be very interesting. Developing this thread of thought further, over the course of several years, the exhibition "The Secret Life of Cyclamen" was born. On exquisite hand-cast porcelain plates, vases of organic shapes and filigree figures, cyclamen flowers grow, blossom and breathe quietly, and between them, a creature glides as if hiding - a woman.
Inese Margeviča started creating the first works of the exhibition in the difficult conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic and continued even when Russia invaded Ukraine. The workshop and the creative work of art was like a refuge from the real world and the uncertainty of the future. Step by step, Inese Margeviča conjured up her paradise garden in porcelain, in which to cool down and breathe. She admires the perseverance of plants: "I have always been fascinated by plants, their will to live, the power of germination, which gives a tiny plant a huge power to break through layers of earth, stones, even asphalt in to the sunlight! The amazing tenacity of the plant, crushing hard layers of earth and stones, if it is not lucky enough to get into loose, fertile ground. Even hated, they continue to live. Humans also have similar characteristics. People are like plants and plants are like people.”
The exhibition "Secret Life of Cyclamen" shows the latest works of the ceramicist, created in the last four years - original porcelain forms painted with colorful scenes. Different techniques of porcelain creation are used in the production of figures, combining casting and shaping, as well as experimenting with porcelain plastic, crumpling and creasing. The delicate, polychrome painting in the overglaze technique is done by hand, inspired by the color application techniques used by the porcelain painting workshop "Baltars" (1924-1928). Compared to the artist's earlier works, which are characterized by monochrome, muted colors with accents of noble metals, the works of this exhibition have flourished in color. The pink and green tones invite you to part the flower stems and enter the secret garden of your imagination, dive into the warm river water, awaken your senses and, finally, breathe.
Inese Margēviča received a master's degree in art from the Latvian Academy of Arts (2001), as well as a master's degree in art pedagogy from the University of Latvia (2004). She is a member of the Latvian Artists' Union, the ceramics association "Logs" and the Latvian Ceramics Association (LKA). From 1988 to 1996, she made her original works at the Riga Porcelain Factory, then she established her own workshop. She has been actively participating in exhibitions and international ceramic symposia since 1990, as well as illustrating books at the same time. She works as a teacher at Oskars Kalpaks Riga Applied Arts Elementary School and Pārdaugava Music and Art School.
The range in which ceramic artist Inese Margēviča work is wide. She creates forms - both by pouring into molds and by creating them freehand. She paints them only in her own manner, perfected over many years of work. Already at the beginning of her creative career, she learned various porcelain painting techniques, copying Japanese drawings, was inspired by the art of African peoples, etc. Finally, she has created her own, unique works of art. Natural, plant and figurative motifs run through all the artist's works, executed in an ornamental, graphically decorative or pictorially lyrical manner. The color palette has also transformed from monochrome, muted tones and tonal compositions into a greater wealth of colors that stir emotions and awaken sensuality.
Inese Margēvičas' personal exhibition "The Secret Life of Cyclamen" will be on display at the Riga Porcelain Museum from April 19, 2024 to June 9, 2024.