The exhibition season continues in the city galleries – Aleksejs Naumovs’ paintings at the Livonian Order Castle (Jāņa Street 17) in the exhibition POLYCHROME. The exhibition opening will take place on June 20th at 12:00, together with the artist.
At the Ventspils Museum, with the support of VKKF, the project “Exhibition Season in City Galleries” continues. Until June 15th, the Rotko Museum collection exhibition MONO/HROMS was on display, and on June 20th at 12:00, together with the artist Aleksejs Naumovs, we will open his solo exhibition POLYCHROME.
Aleksejs Naumovs’ paintings have always been vivid in every sense of the word, but especially bright when depicting his beloved Parisian gardens or Italian landscapes. Large-scale paintings of these sunny places around the world will also be visible on the walls of the Livonian Order Castle. However, the Latvian landscape holds a special place in the artist’s heart — the nuanced greys or steel blues, and the always clear atmosphere. For Aleksejs Naumovs, repeated motifs never become repetitive, as the light is always different, the artist reminds us.
Aleksejs Naumovs graduated from the Monumental Painting Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts under the guidance of Professor Indulis Zariņš and completed his creative postgraduate studies in the workshop of Professor Eduards Kalniņš. He was a recipient of a French government scholarship while studying painting in Paris.
From 2007 to 2017, he served as the rector of the Latvian Academy of Arts, where he currently works as a professor. He mainly paints landscapes both in Latvia and abroad. He is often regarded as the foremost contemporary plein air painter in Latvia. He has been participating in exhibitions since 1977. He consistently works in the landscape genre as well as in book graphics, collaborating with the publishing house “Liels un Mazs.” He received the Great Kristaps award for his film debut, working together with director Roze Stiebra on the animated film “The Law of the Heart.”
The POLYCHROME exhibition is on display until August 17th.
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