Museum presents the first video story in the series “From painting to painting. Pauļuks. Kažociņa. Celmiņa.”

From December 7, 2021, the Music and Art Support Fund, in collaboration with the Latvian National Museum of Art, will invite everyone to get to know the works and exhibitions of Jānis Pauļuks, Māra Kažociņa, and Inta Celmiņa together with the actors of the New Riga Theatre – Kaspars Znotiņš, Regīna Razuma, and Gundars Āboliņš.

The first video story presented by the creative team of the project is a guide through the exhibition “Centaur. Jānis Pauļuks. Latvian National Museum of Art collection” with Kaspars Znotiņš, who has been in the role of Jānis Pauļuks on stage, in the theatre play “Pauļuks. Frames” (Latvian “Pauļuks. Rāmji”).

What is Pauļuks like, and how is his character portrayed by this exhibition? Next to being a brilliant painter and an unorthodox personality, he was also a person with a harsh and independent character, and his life was full of bizarre events. His art, however, stood over everything – he was a fanatic artist.

I live to paint, rather than paint to live,

– that is how the artist formulated the meaning of his life.

The short films are available to everyone free of charge in Latvian with subtitles in English and Russian on the webpages of both involved parties and their social media channels (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram).

The project is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation special-purpose program “KultūrELPA”.

Creative team of the project:

Video artist Rolands Briedis, New Riga Theatre actors Kaspars Znotiņš, Regīna Razuma and Gundars Āboliņš, art historian Zigurds Konstants, poet and author Andris Akmentiņš, prose writer Inga Žolude, playwright Aiva Birbele and translators Ludmila Neimiševa and Anne Sauka.