Artists: Kaspars Gro\u0161evs, Ieva Kraule, Daria Melnikova, Miks Mitr\u0113vics & Krist\u012bne Kursi\u0161a, Evita Vasi\u013cjeva, Armands Zel\u010ds<\/p>\n
Venue: Art in General<\/i>, 79 Walker Street, New York<\/p>\n
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Now I will tell you what happened at the Lily’s Pool. A welcome ceremony. It was on the verge of North and South. Yet everyone remembered a sunlight. Some say it was a perpetual flight, others claim the moon needed one half of a turn.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n This is like a situation that makes up for lost time: Emigrant Ed Leedskalnin’s soul grieved for his unrequited teenage love far away – back in the peripheral homeland, East of everything; his perpetual sadness caused massive coral stones to be magnetized and by the force of antigravity the world’s only known modern megalith structure grew out of the humid soil of Florida’s Homestead. Decades later Billy Idol was performing nearby and visited this bastion. In dedication to the tale, he built his own tuneful monument – Sweet Sixteen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/span>Featuring the work of seven emerging Latvian artists, the group exhibition Lily\u2019s Pool<\/i> attempts to capture the presence of subtle, tangible, and poetic phenomena within a mediated post-Internet, \u201cpost-natural\u201d culture. The participating artists utilize the varied mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, textile, and performance to grapple with the personal and historical memory of materials in a contemporary society engrossed in the fleeting structure of the digital. The works in the exhibition create environments that are at once palpable and uncanny, examining how the physical and social body is affected by accelerated temporalities and the sensations of high-speed browsing and sharing in daily life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lily Pool’s<\/em> subtle satire appears where the void-filled floating exhibition margins grab along several artworks on the way: from Armands Zel\u010ds’s formal welcome sign titled Terra Vinca<\/em> (read P-R-O-V-I-N-C-I-A), an exotisized and authentic gesture that offers an insight into location-based identity; to new horizons of flower arrangement as depicted in Darja Me\u013c\u0146ikova’s painted collage piece inspired by an abstract person’s state of mind with an aura in the shade of dynamics, charisma and dreams; further on, the logic of the lily-pool is unrevealed and over-knitted until rhythmical threads appear through painterly and semi-wearable forms by Kaspars Gro\u0161evs; misshaped and heavily scented tropical fruits find their way out of the pastoral garden of Arcadia as narrated in Ieva Kraule’s story; occupied with constructing and destroying, Evita Vasi\u013cjeva populates space through casted forms \u2013 role models of sculpted confusion of the equally absent past and future; the tone of sentiment is rounded up with an array of crafted ready-mades by Miks Mitr\u0113vics & Krist\u012bne Kursi\u0161a, listed as framed color, casted palm and non-functional yet illusory engaging table play.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kaspars Gro\u0161evs<\/span> (1983) graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia. Recent solo exhibitions include OAOA (J\u016bras griesti)<\/i> (in collaboration with O\u013ca Vasi\u013cjeva) at J\u016bras V\u0101rti, Ventspils (2014); 00:10:00:00<\/i> at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2013); I\/O. Without Enemies<\/i> at Kim? Contemporary art centre, Riga (2011) and H<\/i> at Kanepes Culture Centre, Riga (2012). Gro\u0161evs\u2019 work has been shown in group exhibitions such as Vortex <\/i>at Project Space Garage, Moscow (2014) and Aspen-Kemmern <\/i>at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2014). He has also collaborated with Vivienne Griffin and Cian McConn on various performances and contributed to Studija<\/i> magazine. Gro\u0161evs is a co-founder and curator of gallery 427 in Riga.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ieva Kraule<\/span> (1987) is currently a MA candidate in Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. Recent solo exhibitions include Nobody dances like that anymore<\/i> at gallery 427, Riga (2014); …if all you told was turned to gold<\/i> at Vita Kuben, Ume\u00e5 (2014); Loneliness will be my greatest treasure<\/i> at Kalnciema kvart\u0101ls gallery<\/i>, Riga (2014); 11 out of 10<\/i> at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2013) and Long Awaited Holidays by the Abyss of Fictitious Memories<\/i> at the gallery Bastejs, Riga (2012). Kraule is a co-founder and curator of gallery 427 in Riga.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Krist\u012bne Kursi\u0161a<\/span> (1979) attended Higher Courses of Film Writers and Directors Institute in Moscow and received her M.A. in Visual Communication at Art Academy of Latvia. Kursi\u0161a has been collaborating with artist Miks Mitr\u0113vics since 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include April showers<\/i> (with M. Mitr\u0113vics) at P\/\/\/\/\/AKT<\/i>, Amsterdam (2014); Let me google that for you<\/i> (with M. Mitr\u0113vics) at Netwerk, Contemporary Art Center in Aalst, Belgium\u00a0 (2014) and Galerie VidalCuglietta in Brussels (2013) and Seven Thursdays <\/i>(with M. Mitr\u0113vics) at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, (2012). Kursi\u0161a\u2019s work has been shown in group exhibitions such as Society Acts \u2013 The Moderna Exhibition 2014<\/i> at Moderna Museet Malm\u00f6, Sweden (2014) and Vortex<\/i> at Project Space Garage, Moscow (2014).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Miks Mitr\u0113vics<\/span> (1980) received his Postgraduate (Laureate) at HISK – Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Belgium and his M.A. in Visual Communication at Art Academy of Latvia. Mitr\u0113vics has been collaborating with artist Krist\u012bne Kursi\u0161a since 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include April showers<\/i> (with K. Kursi\u0161a) at P\/\/\/\/\/AKT<\/i>, Amsterdam (2014); Let me google that for you<\/i> (with K. Kursi\u0161a) at Netwerk, Contemporary Art Center in Aalst, Belgium\u00a0 (2014) and Galerie VidalCuglietta in Brussels (2013) and Seven Thursdays <\/i>(with K. Kursi\u0161a) at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2012). Mitr\u0113vics\u2019 work has been shown in group exhibitions such as Society Acts \u2013 The Moderna Exhibition 2014<\/i> at Moderna Museet Malm\u00f6, Sweden (2014) and Vortex<\/i> at Project Space Garage, Moscow (2014). Mitr\u0113vics represented Latvia in the 53rd<\/sup> International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Daria Melnikova<\/span> (1984) attended the Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Visual Communication. Recent exhibitions include Brewing Harmony<\/i> at Gallery Vita Kuben, Ume\u00e5, Sweden (2014); A Green Silhouette of Grey<\/i> at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2014) and Dashing Lines and Forming Heaps<\/i> at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2011). Melnikova\u2019s work has been shown in group exhibitions such as Literacy-Illiteracy<\/i> at the <\/i>16th Tallinn <\/i>Print <\/i>Triennial, <\/i>KUMU, Tallinn (2014); Present Tense<\/i> at Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar (2014); Aspen\u00ad\u2013Kemmern<\/i> at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2014); Vortex<\/i> at Project Space Garage, Moscow (2014); Sculpture Is Space <\/i>at Hobusepea, Tallinn (2013) and 24 Spaces \u2013 Cacophony, <\/i>Malm\u00f6 Konsthall,<\/i> Malmo (2013).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Evita Vasi\u013cjeva<\/span> (1985) attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and is currently a resident at De Ateliers, Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Parallel to Vertical<\/i> at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2013). Vasi\u013cjeva\u2019s work has been shown in group exhibitions such as Aspen-Kemmern <\/i>at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2014); Vortex <\/i>at Project Space Garage, Moscow (2014); NF presents: from A to BE to SEE to D<\/i> at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2014); Monograms<\/i> at Gallery Vita Kuben, Ume\u00e5, Sweden (2014) and Indian Summer<\/i> at <\/i>Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam (2013).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Armands Zel\u010ds <\/span>(1978) attended the Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Visual Communication, and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Fine Arts Department. Recent solo exhibitions include Trails of Fading Landscapes <\/i>(2013) and That is not which is. The name of that is known<\/i> (2011) at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga. Zel\u010ds\u2019 work has been shown in group exhibitions such as 24 Spaces \u2013 Cacophony<\/i> at <\/i>Malm\u00f6 Konsthall,<\/i> Malmo (2013), Exchange <\/i>at Gallery Stiftung akku Emmen, Lucerne, Switzerland (2012); A Smiling Lady on a Tiger<\/i> at St\u00e4dtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany (2010) and Qui Vive?<\/i> at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2010).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ed (Edward) Leedskalnin (Edvards Liedskalni\u0146\u0161)<\/span>\u00a0<\/b>(1887-1951) \u2013 a Latvian sculptor, craftsman, who single-handedly and in secret carved and sculpted more than 1, 100 tons of coral rock, thus creating the\u00a0Coral Castle<\/i>\u00a0in Florida, USA.\u00a0Coral Castle\u00a0<\/i>was created as a monument for his lost love in Latvia, whom he called ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Author of several publications on magnetism, like\u00a0Mineral, Vegetable and Animal life<\/i>,\u00a0Magnetic Current<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0A book in every home, <\/i>he has inspired musicians and mystics.\u00a0<\/i>After he died,\u00a0Coral Castle<\/i>\u00a0become a remarkable tourist attraction and in 1984\u00a0it\u00a0was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the USA.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Artists: Kaspars Gro\u0161evs, Ieva Kraule, Daria Melnikova, Miks Mitr\u0113vics & Krist\u012bne Kursi\u0161a, Evita Vasi\u013cjeva, Armands Zel\u010ds Venue: Art in General, 79 Walker Street, New York Now I will tell you what happened at the Lily’s Pool. A welcome ceremony. It was on the verge of North and South. Yet everyone remembered a sunlight. 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