Jānis textures new spaces to think about a shared past. - Drenched Co.
Comment: "Janis paints with the softest of touches, almost as if he is painting primarily to tease out the bumps and irregularities in his canvases, to individually mark them out, one highlighted bump at a time. And with every circled flaw, Janis textures the collective moments that are remembered as the soviet era. One of the remarkable things about collective memory is that is has texture and that it relies on the materiality of trace. For me, Janis' paintings show memories of a bygone era that have been encoded in postures, clothes and bodily practice brought to primacy by their texture. Loved it! " - JayZee
See http://ibidgallery.com/2015/12/11/janis-avotins-since-the-foundation/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-janis-avotinssince.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Jānis Avotiņš© Ibid. London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Ibid. London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
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