Delicate Provocation - KĀRLIS PADEGS – 100
Delicate Provocation - KĀRLIS PADEGS – 100 4 November 2011 – 12 February 2012
Delicate Provocation - KĀRLIS PADEGS – 100
Venue: National Art Museum Riga
Location: Riga, Latvia
Date: 4 November 2011 – 12 February 2012
It is a little hard to believe that one hundred years have passed since the birth of Kārlis Padegs (1911–1940), the one-time most extravagant Riga artist, who was both a dandy and an outsider at the same time. He only lived for a little over 28 years but the legends he wove around himself did not allow him to be forgotten, even in the post-war, Soviet years.
The artist did not have pretensions of copying modernist art movements and remained a convinced figuralist. He was sufficiently subjective, personal and sensitive for the characteristics of expressionism, the new objectivity and even surrealism to be seen in his drawings and paintings. There are also hints of the 19th century fin de siècle decadence that were more alien to the public of the day.
Kārlis Padegs’ centenary memorial exhibition is an opportunity to reconfirm that this crisis time artist, this sophisticated draftsman and paradoxical thinker, is just as modern in today’s world whose reality is increasingly being replaced by the parallel virtual reality.
On show in the White Hall will be a selection of Padegs’ drawings and paintings from 1928–1940 from the National Museum of Art and private collections. They include works that have not been seen in a long time or even never seen before.
The Hege Hall will feature portraits and works dedicated to Padegs by Latvian artists Gotlībs Kaņeps, Kurts Fridrihsons, Visvaldis Rūsa, Erna Geistaute, Oļģerts Skarainis, Burkards Dzenis, Bruno Strautiņš, Aivars Vilipsons and others.
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