22.10.2024.
11.00
Art Museum RIGA BOURSE
Media tour:
Art of India
On Tuesday, 22 October 2024, at 11.00 the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE invites mass media representatives to the press preview of a new permanent exhibition Art of India.
Registration of participants:
10.30–11.00
A new permanent exhibition, Art of India, will be on view in the Asian Art Gallery of the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE from 23 October 2024.
Indian civilization has a multi-layered history that goes back more than five millennia. It is defined by its diversity of ethnicities, cultures, languages, faiths, arts, and crafts preserved from generation to generation. Art and crafts are very present in every aspect of Indian life and culture be it people’s households, religion and rituals, clothing, or accessories.
North India, late 19th c. Alabaster, paint. Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga. Publicity photo
The Latvian National Museum of Art collection has more than 500 objects of Indian material culture. Every item is an intricate work of art with elaborate ornamentation, motifs, symbols, stories, and designs. During the creation of the exhibition, a study of the history of its formation was conducted, as well as a review of the terminology related to Indian art and a complete contextualization of the collection was carried out. Thus, the display provides an opportunity to get acquainted with the objects from the source community’s point of view, avoiding reproducing colonial ideas by moving away from othering and looking at items in an exoticized light.
