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Janis Avotins 'You, my word, as if it was me before a dark glade'    Jan 31 - Feb 28, 2009

Janis Avotins 'You, my word, as if it was me before a dark glade'
Janis Avotins 'You, my word, as if it was me before a dark glade'
 
Are we really like everyone else are we like everyone going to part
Janis Avotins
Are we really like everyone else are we like everyone going to part, 2009
 
Here we come now. There we go.
Janis Avotins
Here we come now. There we go., 2008
 
I saw my bad approaching
Janis Avotins
I saw my bad approaching, 2009
 
Indulis Zarins
Janis Avotins
Indulis Zarins, 2009
 
Jonas Mekas at break
Janis Avotins
Jonas Mekas at break, 2007
 
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Janis Avotins
You, my word, as if it was me before a dark glade

31. Januar – 28. Februar 2009

Eröffnung: Freitag, 30. November, 19 – 21 Uhr

In den neuen Arbeiten des lettischen Künstlers Janis Avotins erscheinen die Personen und Szenarien vermehrt dokumentarisch mit einem persönlicheren Bezug zum Künstler. Die „Zeit-Ort-Personen“ in den Gemälden sind in erkennbarere Situationen und Kontexte platziert, die Atmosphäre bleibt jedoch existenziell, romantisch und poetisch.
„Jedes Wort stammt am Anfang von etwas, das wir akzeptieren. So wähle ich nicht die zeitliche Abstraktion, sondern präzisiere meine Geschichtenerzähler. Ich spreche durch sie, um Relationen zu beschreiben. Es handelt sich weniger um universale Relationen, sondern um persönliche, scheinbar marginale, die ich als realistische Möglichkeit sehe, den Prozess des Seins zu verdeutlichen. Ich könnte es ‚Reflektionen über meine Lehrer’ (als Personen, Orte und Situationen) nennen“.

Janis Avotins, geboren 1981 in Lettland, lebt und arbeitet in Riga.

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Janis Avotins
You, my word, as if it was me before a dark glade

January 31 – February 28, 2009

Opening reception: Friday, January 30, 7-9 pm

In the recent work of Janis Avotins persons and places seem more documentary, showing a more personal aspect from the artist. The “time-place-persons” in these paintings are placed in more exact situations and contexts, but still in the typical existential, romantic and poetic atmosphere.
“Every word comes in the beginning from something we accept. So I do not choose this time abstraction but precise my story tellers. I speak through them as to describe my relations. It is not about universal relations, rather the personal, marginal ones as a realistic possibility to describe the process of being. I could call it my reflections on my teachers (as persons, places and situations)”.

Janis Avotins, born in 1981 in Latvia, lives and works in Riga.

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