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From December 1 in the exhibition hall of Riga Art Space, only 10 days will be available for the artist and artist sculpture of sound and cinema Voldemars Johansson "Opportunity". The representatives of the exhibition hall will inform the portal "Delfi".
It is a space installation of ice screens badociated with special work for this work, dedicated to the fragile nature of the Arctic. Work has been going on for two years, including two expeditions in extreme environments and the arctic ice world. Cinematographic work documents the current Arctic landscape: glacial surfaces and debris, mountain ranges, rugged terrain, ice melt and runoff. Through this work, the artist makes visitors feel the relationship between humanity and intact nature: understanding the breath of the Arctic and the power of the landscape, raising thoughts about civilization and survival under such extreme conditions .
The Svalbard Archipelago, the most northerly human settlement in the world, was selected for this filming and sound recording work. The direct translation of Svalbard means "cold edge", which corresponds to the description of the place, because the inhospitable archipelago is covered with ice and snow.
"The work was completed for two years, in collaboration with Norwegian polar scientists, Ice Peders Istad artists and Latvian video operators.On the first exploratory trip, with the operator Maris Maskalāns, we moved away of Civilization to Document Arctic Nature During the second expedition, in collaboration with Norwegian saxophonist Rolf Ēriks Nîstrem, we created the inspired sound of the North, using both acoustic and electronic instruments, "said Johansson.
We remind you that the work of Voldemar Johansson in Riga was to be seen in mid-November during the festival of light "Staro Rīga" among the objects of the street of Tallinn. In turn, the first version of the work was shown on three screens of ice at the Barents Spektakel Festival in Norway, which produced 32 tons of ice.
"Absence" is the thematic suite of studies undertaken by Voldemar Johnson in his previous work on the contact between the physical world and the human experience. The previous work in this series, "Thirst", has elicited many reactions from the public and art critics and has been nominated for the Purvitis Award.
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