From July 4, the TAVA ROKA exhibition can be viewed at the Ola Foundation cultural space, bringing together the works of two outstanding artists - Ieva Maurīte and Dace Pētersone. The exhibition will be an emotionally charged and visually expressive art event that will demonstrate the artistic connection between two generations. The exhibition is Ieva Maurīte's tribute in memory of her mother, Dace Pētersone.
Dace Pētersone (1944–2021) spent most of her active creative career working in art ceramics, using clay, faience and grog, as well as porcelain. At the same time, drawing was always an integral part of the author's creative practice, appearing in her works in a wide variety of media. In the TAVA ROKA exhibition, the artist's daughter Ieva Maurīte presents Dace Pētersone's large-format batiks and an extensive series of drawings on metal plates, some of which, including the author's final series Apocalypse, have not previously been shown publicly. From the significant range of three-dimensional ceramic objects, the monumental Hands, made of stoneware, and a porcelain work from the series The Epistles of Paul. will be exhibited.
In Ieva Maurīte's works, the main means of expression is the line: an austere, even minimalist drawing on a monochrome background. Large-format works on canvas are exhibited.
She says about the exhibition:
“The meaning-rich title of Paul Gauguin's well-known work, “Where Do We Come From/ What Are We/ Where Are We Going“ (D'où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous. P. Gauguin / 1897) could be supplemented here with “and Whom Do We Meet Along the Way”. It is so important and so beautiful when we are fortunate enough in life to meet exceptional, truly creative people, all the more so when they are so close to us, because they are the ones who shape us, our perception, and our personal style. The exhibition “TAVA ROKA” is dedicated to my mother, Dace Pētersone. She was not only an outstanding ceramicist with an excellent sense of form, plasticity, proportion and composition, but also, and in my view above all, an accomplished draughtswoman. This is what I would like to highlight in this exhibition, presenting my mother's works in materials other than ceramics.”
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Dace Pētersone (1944–2021) - a professional artist and a distinguished representative of Latvia's golden age of ceramics. In 2003, she obtained a master's degree in art from the Art Academy of Latvia. She was a member of the Artists' Union of Latvia from 1981.
Dace Pētersone's works are held in the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design of the Latvian National Museum of Art and in the collection of the Artists' Union of Latvia. Dace Pētersone actively exhibited both in Latvia and abroad, for example, in Faenza, Italy (1986), Cologne, Germany (1993), Barcelona, Spain (1998), Tallinn, Estonia (1989), and elsewhere. The artist held notable solo exhibitions in Riga, including at the then-famous venue known as God's Ear, or the Planetarium, Gallery M6, the Pegazs art gallery, the Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Ceramics Department of the Art Academy of Latvia (1974), she was one of the founders and an active member of the Logs ceramics studio.
Ieva Maurīte - a professional artist with a refined individual style. After obtaining a master's degree in art from the Art Academy of Latvia in 2000, Maurīte furthered her studies through international residencies in France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Japan. The artist has actively participated in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad and has held more than twenty solo exhibitions. For her solo exhibition The Green Line, the artist was nominated for the Purvītis Prize; in 2007, she won the Swedbank Painting of the Year competition with the work Starry Sky. Ieva Maurīte's works are held in private and public collections in Latvia, Italy, Estonia, Japan, France and the USA. Ieva Maurīte has been a member of the Artists' Union of Latvia since 1998.
BATIK | DACE PĒTERSONE
HORSES
PORCELAIN
YOUR HAND | IEVA MAURĪTE
GREETING
DACE PĒTERSONE
IEVA MAURĪTE
