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Ivars Drulle, quote from an article by Ieva Lejasmeijere \u201eAdatas acs un ziedo\u0161a p\u013cava\u201d, R\u012bgas Laiks, December 2011. <\/p>\n Ivars Drulle looks at the part of society we meet in web comments, dating ads or common myths. The exhibition consists of six stories \u2013 versions of events that have been previously experienced or heard or read about, events where we seek new justifications for what we are. (For \u201cone thing is \u201cus\u201d we\u00a0 meet while standing in the queue at cash-desk in Rimi or riding in a trolley, but something completely different is \u201cus\u201d who come back from work and turn into advertisement 50616, who is looking for his better half, or into Kiborg who engages in a controversy whether Li\u0101na Langa is stupid or not\u201d. I.D. May, 2012).<\/p>\n<\/span>A year ago P\u0113teris Bankovskis passionately blamed author for living in the present and having a craze with its shapeless format and mundane content. \u201cThe sculpture of Ivars Drulle \u2013 these tiny toy-like figurines in the tiny doll rooms \u2013 are even more realistic as they speak about how fragmented is the reasoning of a modern man, distributed in small compartments, how impossible it is to disentangle from the maelstrom of \u201cinformation\u201d the\u00a0 current civilization is muddling along.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/span>A year after the critique, for society \u2013 this group of pumpkin-heads \u2013 the suffering and uncertainty about their own lives and the world\u2019s order has not diminished, despite that the new political and cultural communication makes once released words to rearrange according to different intonational logics. Therefore Normunds Naumanis in his recent column next to the question about the change of paradigm in Latvian culture proposes an answer that once again is a question: \u201cIsn\u2019t the Ivars Drulle\u2019s undersized \u0160mit\u2019s figurine which is affectionately praying the God to destroy \u201call who think and live differently\u201d in fact the embodiment of the God\u2019s merciful smile in miniature sculpture \u2013 forgive them for they do not know what they do?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ivars Drulle<\/span> is a sculptor and a teacher. He has studied at the Humboldt State University in California and earned his master\u2019s degree from University of Montana; he is a head of department of 3D design at the Riga Design School. In 2012 Drulle received \u201cDiena\u201d Annual Culture Award and has been nominated to Purv\u012btis Award by Latvian National Museum of Art. In 2009 he had an exhibition together with M\u0101ris Grosbahs at Riga Art Space, and currently\u00a0 another Drulle\u2019s solo show takes place in Umea, Sweden. Ivars Drulle has participated in various group shows in Belgium, Germany, Russia etc.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe solo show opens in May. I am already waking up in the middle of the night and can\u2019t fall asleep anymore. I\u2019m watching videos on launching of space ships and tests of nuclear explosions till 6 a.m. At 6 I am tired and go to bed knowing that I haven\u2019t moved any further, though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-kim-exhibitions","category-past-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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