Works on the open-air exposition of the new season “Stone. Colour” are under way. More than fifteen new environment art objects are being created now. Part of the new artworks will be found in places not used for expositions so far and viewers will have a chance to walk new paths in Pedvāle Art Park.

Both Latvian artists and guests from the Netherlands and the USA are working in the Park now.

The symposium “In Pedvāle Bushes” takes place within the season in collaboration with Talsi Regional Museum; the idea originated from the creative activities of the Bush Group of Talsi artists. Several artists from the Bush Group take part in the symposium alongside other artists. The bushy ravines and valleys of Pedvāle Park landscape influenced the works created during the symposium along with the two major expressive means of the creative season – stone and colour, used both as physical materials and instruments of symbolic expression. Artists are serious and philosophical in their works but also witty, ironic and surprising. Environmental objects of the symposium “In Pedvāle Bushes” are created by Andris Biezbārdis, Uldis Balga, Dainis Kārkluvalks, Guna Millersone, Līga Žimante, Pauls Jaunzems, Jānis Kupčs, Māris Grosbahs, Laura Feldberga and Ojārs Feldbergs.

Dutch artist Chris Peterson is working on a new piece for Pedvāle sculpture exposition with the support of the Royal Dutch Embassy. The granite sculpture is made for the exhibition “Stone. Colour” and it will also complement the permanent sculpture exposition on view in the Park.

The artists Kenneth Pane and Carl Billingsley together with the students from Buffalo State College and East Carolina University in the USA have visited Pedvāle Park several times before. Now fourteen art students together with their instructors are working in Pedvāle Park, and their works will also add to the environment art exposition of the season “Stone. Colour”. Young artists experiment with the most varied scope of natural materials – wood, stones, sand, clay, turf, water, fire. Their works are based on the simplest of means, using them in a surprising way to create works that are inspired by the typical landscape of Pedvāle and nature’s elements peculiar to it.

The new exhibition of open-air art objects “Stone. Colour” will be opened in Pedvāle Park on 11 June and will be on view till the end of the season in October.   

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