It Takes Imagination to Build Reality It Takes Imagination to Build Reality

Andris Eglïtis' works are on the verge of the physical and immaterial, document and imagination. In the site-specific installation It Takes Imagination to Build Reality the artist combined oil paintings on canvas and spatial objects, analysing the ideas of post-war modernism and confronting them with reality. The historical and social context of the Gallery has been inscribed in the structure of the work. Its origin was also the result of acute observation of the process of transformation of the Gallery interior for the purpose of the 2016 exhibition All Mounds Can be Seen from My Window. The situations, elements and materials encountered in the institution were recreated by the artist in painterly form or directly incorporated by the installation itself. The illusionistic forms of paintings painted by Eglïtis as well as found and transformed objects pervade one another, making up the complex installation.

Andris Eglïtis (b. 1981) – creates paintings, photographs, multimedia objects and installations. Graduate of and assistant professor at the Art Academy of Latvia. Studied at the Repin Institute of Arts in Saint Petersburg, Manchester Metropolitan University and HISK in Ghent. He lives and works in Riga. His works reveal interest in the question of duality of materiality and immateriality of art which corresponds to dual human nature combining corporeality with spirituality.

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