Exhibition of icons, paintings, graphics -

GOLD. LIGHT. COLOR. LINE

Art is as old as humanity. It is a person's need and ability to express, to speak the language of color, line, form, rhythm, light, materiality.

Christian art has formed and evolved alongside the art of the time, interacting and inspiring. It has taken over the means of artistic expression from life-affirming folk art and sophisticated urban art, but has filled them with a different, spiritual content and essence, transformed them into testimony, contemplation and prayer.

Iconography is the art of the Church's tradition, following a certain canon. It has developed over hundreds of years, accumulating the experience of the church and artists, sifting out the valuable from the superfluous, selecting the most appropriate and precise, so that the spiritual message, otherness, holiness can be clearly and truly expressed and revealed. Although liturgical art, it has coexisted with its era. And the icon painter has worked alongside his contemporaries. By taking it out and exhibiting it outside the Church, it becomes a message and a work of art.

Even today, the icon painter who works side by side and shows his work outside the church is a member of the family of artists of the era. We all speak a single informative code language in our art. In addition, when watching the paintings, the viewer also reads what is understandable and recognizable in the icon. On the contrary, the connoisseur of the icon reveals that even with the tools of art language it is possible to talk not only about the mundane, but also about the timeless.

In this exhibition, we have united five artists - painters, graphic artists and icon painters - to look, delve into each other's work and pass it on to the viewer.

In the exhibition, we want to highlight specific forms of artistic expression and look at them in contemporary - painting, graphics - and canonical - iconic - art.

GOLD.

Artist Ineta Freidenfelde –

“I see icon as praise. Gold gives it a touch of eternal light. In my art I praise the less noticeable lives beside us, which often go unnoticed, while they experience a fulfilled life without which the world would be incomplete. Gold is my instrument and way to connect the secular with the transcendental.”

Artist Evia Rudzite –

“Gold in icons is the expression of spiritual reality and eternity. Gold depicts the Divine presence, God’s mercy that interweaves and fulfills the creation and the saints. The golden background is the setting of light in which the world exists and where divine energy and love function. It is reflected in the golden nimbi and asista - a special golden line ornament in the clothing and details of the saints. Asista painting is like a non-material light that interweaves the visible and material aspects. Gold in icons is both light and color.”