Marking one year since the launch of cooperation between the Art Academy of Latvia (AAL) and Semarah Hotels to support young and talented Latvian artists, on Wednesday, July 10, the fourth solo exhibition opened at the design hotel Grand Poet Hotel. Until October 10, anyone interested will have the opportunity to see the works of Agate Bern\u0101ne, a student pursuing a bachelor\u2019s degree in painting at the Art Academy of Latvia. The exhibition is titled \u201cGirl with a Canary\u201d (Meitene ar kan\u0101rijputni\u0146u).<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI believe that a good artist must challenge him or herself. While working on my paintings, I do a great deal of research and also dispute my own thoughts. It creates new ideas and changes the view of what is happening around. Inspiration to paint comes completely unexpectedly. Anything can cause it \u2013 a dusty windowsill, a pile of laundry, broken nail polish, tension, dreams \u2013 everything that creates the respective feelings. Sometimes it\u2019s easier to paint than to find the right words to explain how I feel. In the process of creation, I seem to merge with the work I am creating, give it my inspiration, so that it can continue to live independently,\u201d <\/em>says Agate Bern\u0101ne<\/strong>, urging anyone interested to come see the exhibition.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n Inese Baranovska<\/strong>, head of the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design of the Latvian National Museum of Art and lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia, emphasizes that Agate\u2019s works stand out among other students with their unusual perception of the world. \u201cHer paintings have a visual sensitivity, the ability to see and behold. The artist reflects on the processes of everyday life, but in every seemingly banal routine phenomenon she tries to capture the entire universe, connecting the forms of the past, present and future. In the painted visions, everyday reality alternates with imaginations and dreams \u2013 replicas of art history, travel notes, popular cultural signs and rituals of everyday life,\u201d <\/em>Inese Baranovska says about her student\u2019s works.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n The paintings at the exhibition have been made during the last two years. The artist philosophically explains that they are paintings of one and the same dream. Being in front of the canvas, brushes and paints evokes the pleasant excitement of meeting a canary. In the dream, the girl is visited by a canary. She feeds and strokes it. Within the white walls of the apartment, she lets it fly. The bird has neither a name nor a certain age, she does not know where the bird comes from and where it disappears, but she feels attached to it. The food and water feeders for the bird are empty, and the girl feeds it again, caresses it and listens to its song. This is how they meet \u2013 sometimes often, sometimes less often \u2013 for almost two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Agate Bern\u0101ne was born in 1996. She has studied at Janis Rozent\u0101ls Riga Art School (2012\u20132016) and is currently pursuing a bachelor\u2019s degree at the Art Academy of Latvia. She has participated in such projects as \u201cFilm Art Action Party\u201d (2015), \u201cArt Belongs to the People\u201d (2015), \u201cRAF. Jelgava. Art.\u201d (2013), as well as in several group exhibitions. Twice (2014, 2015) she has received the excellence scholarship of Petr Aven charity foundation Generation (Paaudze). In June of this year, she represented the AAL at the international contemporary art fair ArtVilnius’19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition at Grand Poet Hotel is the artist\u2019s first solo exhibition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Any visitor can vote for his or her favourite painting by assigning a special sticker to it \u2013 a five-grand coin available at the hotel. M\u0101ris Alnis, head of Grand Poet Hotel, explains that at the end of each quarterly exhibition, the hotel purchases the highest-voted painting of the exhibition to create a unique collection of works by young Latvian artists, Grand Poet Art Collection. At the moment, the collection already includes works by three young artists \u2013 Madara Kv\u0113pa, Just\u012bne Seile and Ella Me\u017eule. The paintings are now showcased in the hotel to delight visitors, art and life lovers from all over the world. The next exhibition will open in the autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About Grand Poet Art Collection<\/em><\/strong><\/p>
\n On June 14, 2018 the Art Academy of Latvia and Semarah Hotels chain of hotels signed a memorandum of understanding on support for the development of young artists. The objective is to support the academy\u2019s students and young Latvian artists \u2013 to encourage them to strive for new achievements, build self-confidence and pursue an international career, provide financial support for talent development, create a space for solo exhibitions, thereby promoting the development of art in Latvia. <\/em><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n About Grand Poet Hotel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>
\n Grand Poet Hotel was opened by Semarah Hotels, a hotel chain founded in Latvia. At the moment, the hotel chain includes resort hotel Lielupe in J\u016brmala and two hotels in Riga: the four-star historic Metropole hotel on Aspazijas Boulevard and the elegant five-star design hotel Grand Poet Hotel at 5\/6 Rai\u0146a Boulevard. Each one has its own unique story to tell.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n Grand Poet Hotel\u2019s Diplohemia concept combines diplomatic and bohemian design solutions developed by the internationally acclaimed and award-winning concept and design agency Stylt Trampoli (Sweden). The hotel was designed by the architectural firm Sarma un Norde (Latvia), preserving the architectural uniqueness of the building. The name of the hotel carries a duality that is often embodied in poets \u2013 earnest and bohemian.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Already three paintings by young Latvian artists have been purchased and are displayed at the design hotel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n