ILGVARS ZALANS
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Biography
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Education
1988 -1992 Latvian Academy of Arts , Department of pedagogy
1984 - 1987 Riga Applied Art College. Department of decorative painting
since 2001 Member of The Artists' Union of Latvia
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Statement
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I am a profesional painter, freelance artist. I work in different styles & techniques, mainly in oil, because color interests me as an existential platform. In color I find my real calling in Art and my life.
Most of my works I make in open- air, nature. Landscapes help me to feel the surrounding in which I live and which I paint.
In the last time I have paralel creative search in ceramics(sculptures & porcelain decorating too ). I transform the 2 dimensional color impressions into plastic form.
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Exhibitions
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2004 Welcome to V.!", Locanda Antica, Vellano, PS, ITALY
?Traditional painting", Cesis exibition House
?Reconstruction", Centrum hotel, Viljandi, ESTONIA
2003 ?ANIMA", gallery ?Art garden", Riga
?Landscape", Town hall ,Hoje-Taastrup, DENMARK
2002 ?Summer practice", gallery "Rubins", Riga
exibition hall of Madona Museum
Jakobsen keskus" Hall Viljandi, ESTONIA
2001 ?Landscape", The House of Architects, Riga,
2001 .2000 ?Carpe diem!", gallery "Laipa" Valmiera,
2000 ?Epifany", hotel "'De ROME"', Riga ,
1998 Museum of Limbazi,
Selected group exibitions
2003 ?Private space", ", art Museum "Arsenals", Riga
"The Small Forms", Rigas gallery, Riga;
2002 "The Plate", porcelain paintings, Latvian Porcelain Museum, Riga
paintings & ceramics with latvian potterists, in4 Museums of LATVIA
"Painting of the Year 2002". "The Hunt ",gallery ASUNA, Riga,
2001 "4 painters", Pskov, Kremlin, RUSSIA
1993-2000 with Limbazi region artists organization (14)
1992 "Latvian contemporary painting", FRANCE
1987-1991 with Talsi Artists organization (9)
Public commisions
2004 ?City and industry", Open Atelier De Vrijplaats, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
2003 ? Landscape",gallery "Laipa",Valmiera (residency award)
2002 " Landscape",gallery "Laipa",Valmiera (first award)
"The Fall 2002" and "The Fall 2001", art Museum "Arsenals", Riga
Art competition. Miniature. Valmiera Museum
2001 Visual art competition,,Landscape" (residency award)
2000 North-Latvian regional art competition (Nerchau inc. award)
Professional expierence
2004 ?VELLANOARTE 2004", Vellano, Tuscany, ITALY
painting residency in Viljandi, ESTONIA selfdirected painting residency in Praha, CZECH Republic
2003 painting residency in Zurich SWITZERLAND
2ndInternational Open Air Painting simposium ,Valmiera,
International Open Air Painting& Drawing workshop Pskov, RUSSIA
2002 porcelain painting simposium in Zvartava Art center
art management simposium TBILISI, GEORGIA
painting plein- air " Fish island ", Rusne, LITHUANIA
land art ? Labyrinth", ruins of Viljandi castle, ESTONIA
1stInternational Open Air Painting simposium ,Valmiera,
2001 ceramic simposium"The Egg", Livani glass factory,
land art ''Present for Vincent " river Ruja,
2000 international workshop,"The Boath ", Bernati
firesculpture "DieParanormal Hosentrager" Meleki , seaside,
1996 participant in Berlin MESSE, GERMANY
1995 artistic workshop and exibition in Malmo, SWEDEN
1987-1992 decorator at theTheatre of Talsi (set design, costumes)
Awards , Grants
2004 Artist in Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso /RESARTIS/ , SPAIN
Travel Grant, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
2003 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation
Artist in Residency, Hooje-Taastrup, Copenhagen, DENMARK
2002 Creative stipend, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation,
Artist of the year 2002 , Valmiera,
Artist in Residency, Viljandi, ESTONIA
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