BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Exhibit: Visvaldis Ziedins: Travels in the Imagination

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Exhibit: Visvaldis Ziedins: Travels in the Imagination:

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Description of Pictures: Visvaldis Ziedins: Travels in the Imagination
June 13 through July 26, 2015
Working quietly and in near obscurity during the dark days of the Latvian Soviet period, artist Visvaldis Ziedins amassed a remarkable body of over 3,000 works. This survey brings his witty assemblages, sculptures, collages and paintings to American audiences for the first time. These works reveal a vivid imagination unfettered by material and political pressures and bear comparison to contemporaneous explorations by such better known avant gardists as Pablo Picasso, John Cage, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Antoni Tàpies and Arman.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. KATZIE_150612_016.JPG: Working quietly and in near obscurity during the dark days of the Latvian Soviet period, Visvaldis Ziediņš amassed a remarkable body of work comprising over 3000 sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations. These works engage a wide array of human experiences, touching on everything from the vastness of the cosmos and the mysteries of religion to the hidden structures of nature and the absurdity of human civilization. Ziediņš employed the materials at hand, creating works out of the simple stuff of everyday life – crushed cans, metal tins, driftwood, old tools, bottle caps, marmelade boxes and discarded packing materials. Largely cut off from the international art community, Ziediņš lived outside the capital of Riga and was only marginally connected to the Lativan art world. But while his material and physical circumstances were extremely limited, his imagination was not. His formal and conceptual explorations bear comparison to work being done across the globe during his lifetime by avant-gardists as diverse as Pablo Picasso, John Cage, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Antoni Tàpies and Arman. At the same time, Ziediņš' wit and the universality of his concerns make his works immediately accessible to modern audiences. This exhibition highlights Ziediņš' work in painting, assemblage and collage, with a particular focus on works that address his ability to leap across the artificial boundaries created by national borders, political ideologies and pre-established social networks. A number of his witty and penetrating self portraits in various media are included, along with works that reveal his sense of a world in flux, as quotidian objects and oppressive realities are reimagined through the transformative power of art. This small selection of Ziediņš' phenomenal output reveals a rich inner world that could not be suppressed by external difficulties.
2. KATZIE_150612_214.JPG: Visvaldis Ziedins Compositions with Berlin Wall Fragment, 1990
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