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Today, July 5 at 7:00 pm at the Splendid Palace, a documentary film "Immost in the World" – one of the most important contemporary Australian artists, Imants Tiller, is presented. This is the only screening with the participation of the artist who came to Latvia to unveil an ambitious personal exhibition "The Journey to Nowhere" as part of the Symposium of State of the National Symphony Orchestra
Imants Tillers (born in 1950) whose works can be read as a sort of book of the world, because all events are linked and cultural quotes interact with each other. The emigration of Latvian artist 's parents in his work also led to reflections on migration and the movement of the soul. Imants Tillers has represented Australia at the São Paulo Biennial (1975), the international exhibitions Documenta 7 (1982) and the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986). She has solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (1988), at the National Art Gallery in Wellington (1989), at the National Gallery of Art in Canberra, Australia (2006) and others. . Director and producer of Cilinsk's second documentary "The World of Imanta Tiller" will be able to see both the unique process of artistic creation in the artist's studio in Australia and follow it at various events
[Unique] is the fact that the film group had the opportunity to accompany Imants Tiller to the Aboriginal artist Michael Nelson Jagamar, who lives in a very closed community.
From Friday, July 7 at the National Museum of Art of Latvia. . Tiller at the University of Sydney received a Bachelor of Architecture (1972). Her interest in contemporary art processes began during her studies as a volunteer badistant at Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Little Bay packaging in Sydney (1969). Imants Tillers is called "think provocative artist", and his creativity is considered the quintessence of postmodernism. In 1981, Imants Tiller began using small rectangular canvas-coated cartons for painting, from which often impressive works are often made. These paintings have become a conceptual solution to the author. Tillers chose the method of appropriation – his paintings are based on images found in the works of other artists. By citing and combining one into a single composition, the world opens up as a system of interconnected phenomena. An integral part of Tiller's creative work is also the text – the phrases found in the writings of philosophers, writers and poets are repeated, which, as important messages, are repeated from a painting to the 39; another. The major issues of the artist are the individual, place and identity, exile, migration and belonging.
The first meeting with Imants Tiller in Latvia took place in 1993 when a painting from the Diaspora series was exhibited at the Latvian National Museum of Art. This series was inspired by the 1990 political events in Latvia. Tillers has launched an epic message about people separated from the homeland, scattered around the world, and their identities are looking for expression on a strange land.
The vast retrospective of Imanta Tiller A trip to nowhere to the Latvian National Art Museum has exhibited 64 works that testify to the development of craftsmanship for over 40 years and tells the story. exclusion of native Australian aborigines from their traditional places. , covering the period from 1975 to 2017. From the legendary installation created in 1975 by Marcel Dixon, he is immediately chosen to represent Australia at the São Paulo Biennial, up to the paintings where the method of l & # 39; 39 Aborigine appropriation and aboriginal art quotes in particular spark scandalous discussions in Australia in the 1980s. With 45 compositions, the cycle is depicted in the discourse on Nature, which Tiller began painting in 1998 when he moved from Sydney to Kum (Mona).
For the first time, a book on the art of Imants Tiller was published in Latvia. Several studies have been devoted to the work of Master, but none of them has been published in Latvia so far. The Latvian National Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Power Publications Publishing House of the University of Sydney, has prepared a bilingual edition of Imants Tiller. A trip to nowhere, with a complete catalog of exhibition activities and the most important pages of an artist biography.
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