Latvian artists Klutsis' exhibition unveiled in Spain’s Seville

From November 26 to February 28, two exhibition halls in Spain's Seville: "Caja San Fernando" and "Cajasol Cultural Centre" host an exhibition of works by the Latvian artist Gustavs Klutsis, as LETA learned from the Latvian National Museum of Art.



Gustavs Klutsis (1895-1938) is one of most prominent and internationally best-known Latvian artists. More than 100 pieces of his artwork from the Latvian National Art Museum's collection will be exhibited in Spain.



Latvia-born Klutsis is best known internationally as a representative of Russian avant-garde art – a constructivism devotee, pioneering photo montage artist and creator of landmark posters. His work marks a whole new era in art history, while his life story mirrors the fate of thousands of Latvians who stayed in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and later became victim of Stalin's terror in end 1930's.



Klutsis worked in a variety of experimental media; their dynamic compositions, distortions of scale and space, angled viewpoints and colliding perspectives make them perpetually modern.



The exhibition in Seville will include also several pieces by Klutsis from the collections of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (Spain) and the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece.



At the exhibition visitors will have a chance to see documentary about Gustavs Klutsis by Peteris Krilovs in Spanish; exhibition catalogues will be available in Spanish and in English.



Source:baltic-course.com