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ANDRIS ZACESTS
Born in 1950. Professional training:
Janis Rozentals Art School of Riga (1962 - 1969), Painting Department
at the Latvian Academy of Arts (1969 - 1975); professor I. Zarins'
Master Studio. Improvement course at the St. Petersburg Academy of
Arts and Vilnius Art Institute.
Contributor to exhibitions since 1974. A member of the B - 13 Association
(1993 - 1998)
since 1993.
Four personal exhibitions in Latvia and group exhibitions in Riga,
Moscow, Germany.
His works are to be found in the collections of the State Art Museum
and Artists' Union of Latvia, as well as in private collections in
Latvia and abroad.
Currently professor at the Latvian Academy of Arts.
"I am enthralled by the classical values
of painting, metaphysical nature of things and their symbolic significance.
In my work I am trying to combine this with the paradoxical thinking
of contemporary art."
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Getting Across. 1992. Oil on cardboard. 125
x 170 cm |
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Still Life. 1993. Oil on canvas. 80 x 100 cm |
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Still Life. 1993. Oil on canvas. 80 x 60 cm |
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Self Portrait. 1994. Oil on canvas. 45 x 35
cm |
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Still life. 1993. Oil on canvas. 60 x 80 cm |
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