What is there to hide, sitting lone in a rose garden… or in a dark cave, where fire (what a source of light!) draws shades on the walls, and they are often more real than the objects, which cast them. These plays of shadows and phantasms give a sapless comfort \u2013 as in a dream, when invisibly, but inevitably the border between \u201cthis\u201d and \u201cthat\u201d world merges. When petals of rose turn into a butterfly which is free to fly away.<\/p>\n
Everyone likes finding its place beneath the Sun, both apart from everyone and among others. Interactions of thoughts and attitude towards the faith in something, illustrated by icons, something, which demands a presence and immersing of a visitor, which afterwards returns to his tiny world again. To the world, which, what a paradox!, is not so small at all. New experience and new questions about what is changed, while the others were watching the same. Responsibility for the others, those, who wait for something, who have stepped on the roads, which demand exploring again and again. Paging the petals of butterfly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarm\u012bte M\u0101li\u0146a and Kristaps Kalns are among those professional and strong Latvian artists, which have worked in tandem during the previous ten years. Their work, apart from the chamber stile, is characteristic with a wide emotional range, high capacity of emotional plot and ideas, and it always fascinates the public. M\u0101li\u0146a and Kalns are able to share a conversation with the widest circles of public \u2013 including those, who do not have a notion \u201ccontemporary art\u201d in their everyday vocabularies.<\/p>\n
Exhibition \u201eWhat is There to Hide Sitting Lone in a Rose Garden\u201d might be regarded also as a part I of a rather huge show titled \u201cBe patient…\u201d which is planned in the Arsenal hall of the National Art Museum of Latvia in January 2012. It is planned as a selection of stories about uneasy subjects, which are not occupying just these two artists, but, most likely \u2013 all the inhabitants of this planet. Judging from the experience, the most personal stories are universal.
\nThese stories-images can be called an emotional walk on a path of space and sound of live. And it is also a fight against the speed, in which people, shadows and flowers blooms and opens, before dying, spreading heated scent.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s possible also, that what the two artists do can appear to be considered egoistic, and taking care about depicting events from their lives in visible forms. But, then, isn\u2019t the dialog with ones consciousness, as well as exploring live and fair confession of love towards life, the most honest mission of a human being?<\/p>\n