Michelangelo Foundation
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From 28 January to 26 March 2023, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Skārņu iela 10, Riga) will hold the exhibition No-objects, for the first time bringing together artist and designer Jānis Straupe's creative work from the last 20 years as well as presenting his latest proposals – ambitious sculptural and kinetic objects.
Jānis Straupe's personal exhibition No-objects sheds light on the recent history of Latvian design, giving visitors the opportunity to get to know one of the most unconventional creators, who already under the Soviet regime's strict separation of styles strove to work in an interdisciplinary manner, demonstrating that wood sculpture, or wood as material, has the capacity to be surprising and contemporary.
Jānis Straupe continues to work in experimental design and art, and with the new paradigm of sustainability has acquired particular relevance in today's context.
"In his work, Jānis Straupe has been able to combine remarkable quality of craftsmanship with innovative creative artistic thinking, transforming the traditional material of wood, so popular in the practice of Latvian craft and design, in original, unpredictable ways. It could be said that the artist works on the boundary between sculpture and conceptual design. In the exhibition No-objects, visitors will not encounter any examples of functional design – its goal is to expand the horizons of imagination and thinking, encouraging visitors to look at the world and things that surround them from a different perspective – critically, ironically and romantically", stresses the exhibition's curator Inese Baranovska.
EVENT - Posted on 24 March, 2023
From 28 January to 26 March 2023, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Skārņu iela 10, Riga) will hold the exhibition No-objects, for the first time bringing together artist and designer Jānis Straupe's creative work from the last 20 years as well as presenting his latest proposals – ambitious sculptural and kinetic objects.
Jānis Straupe's personal exhibition No-objects sheds light on the recent history of Latvian design, giving visitors the opportunity to get to know one of the most unconventional creators, who already under the Soviet regime's strict separation of styles strove to work in an interdisciplinary manner, demonstrating that wood sculpture, or wood as material, has the capacity to be surprising and contemporary.
Jānis Straupe continues to work in experimental design and art, and with the new paradigm of sustainability has acquired particular relevance in today's context.
"In his work, Jānis Straupe has been able to combine remarkable quality of craftsmanship with innovative creative artistic thinking, transforming the traditional material of wood, so popular in the practice of Latvian craft and design, in original, unpredictable ways. It could be said that the artist works on the boundary between sculpture and conceptual design. In the exhibition No-objects, visitors will not encounter any examples of functional design – its goal is to expand the horizons of imagination and thinking, encouraging visitors to look at the world and things that surround them from a different perspective – critically, ironically and romantically", stresses the exhibition's curator Inese Baranovska.