Indriķis Ģelzis
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The image depicts a contemporary abstract artwork composed of distorted, overlapping shapes and lines in shades of gray and white. The artwork's visual elements create a dynamic, kinetic composition that suggests movement and depth. The sculptural, three-dimensional nature of the work is achieved through the use of various materials and techniques, likely involving glass or mirrored surfaces. The overall style and approach reflect the artist's exploration of abstraction, materiality, and the interplay of light and form. This piece may be part of the artist's broader investigation into the perception of space, depth, and the physicality of the artistic medium. ...
Indriķis Ģelzis (born 1988 in Latvia) Ģelzis holds an MA in Visual Communication from the Art Academy of Latvia (Rīga, LV) and a Post-Graduate degree from HISK – Higher Institute for Fine Arts (Ghent, BE). Selected solo and two-person shows: Bingo Gaze, Polina Berlin (New York, 2024), Watery Day's Eye, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre (Riga, 2023). VAGABOND / A Place Hard to Place, Jenny’s (New York, 2022); Yawn holding fields, Tatjana Pieters (Ghent, 2022); Figure of Everything, Castor (London, 2020); Pause for the Cause, CINNAMON (Rotterdam, 2019); TABLEAU, ASHES/ASHES (New York, 2019); Nightball effect at King's Leap (New York, 2019). Recent group exhibitions: The 4 Gate Connection, Tatjana Pieters (Ghent, 2020); Doors of Paradise, Union Pacific (London, 2018); Superposition, Joshua Liner Gallery (New York, 2018). Ģelzis lives and works in Rīga, Latvia. His works are featured in the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art; Museum of Recent Art / Romania; S.M.A.K. The Municipal Museum of Contemporary / Belgium; The Lewben Art Foundation / Lithuania; CELINE ART PROJECT / FRANCE; Paul Thiers Collection / Belgium; Alain Servais Family Collection / Belgium; Antoine De Werd Collection / The Netherlands; Tanguy Van De Weghe Collection / Belgium; Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection / Belgium; Wang Jianlin Collection / China; Colin Fernandes Collection / US; Zuzāns Private Collection / Latvia. ...
Indriķis Ģelzis: Artworks
Kim? is an art centre devoted to ideas, gestures, textures and interventions that shift from “a well-trained chameleon face” (Zane Onckule) to a cadavre exquis, from “a polygon, a laboratory, a lighthouse” (Jānis Borgs) to a hybrid organism. Founded in 2009, Kim? has actively contributed to the art discourse both in Latvia and on a global scale with extensive exhibition programming, as well as international collaborations, discussions, publications, talks and performances. Over the years, Kim? has worked with both emerging and renowned artists, theoreticians, curators, philosophers, translators and thinkers of other spheres, aiming to provide a responsive context to their work and to make critical practices accessible to a wider audience. Kim? with its name being a question itself (“kas ir māksla?” – what is art?) inhabits an ongoing series of questions – what it means to be a cultural agent today and to contribute to the vast landscape of contemporary art, how to show and talk about art, thinking about how art functions in differing contexts of local and global economies, traditions, cultures and subcultures, between the disappearance and reappearance of identities. ...