New Works
The pictures of Jānis Avotiņš seem like apparitions; they have great presence and yet remain intangible, fleeting and delicate. It is immediately visible how they construct a form of their own in their kind of allusion and omission, a form able to capture a moment or reproduce an atmosphere that can find expression only in this way. What Avotiņš formulates in painting is related to reality, and yet knows no reality outside the picture. What interests Avotiņš in his art is the ineffable, and something essential about it is its particular way of keeping silence. Continue reading Janis Avotins
