Auction exhibition of modern art “Virus of happiness” will be held in Riga
After several months of self-isolation, representatives of the contemporary art gallery ArtAlea offer to remember the beautiful and invite to the pre-auction exhibition of modern art “Virus of Happiness”, which will be held from June 3 to July 05.
In the frameworks of the summer auction collected works by nine Latvian artists: paintings by Edmund Lucis, Dita Lusa, Artur Akopyan, Lasma Puyate, Marek Gurecki, Baiba Abelite, Diana Adamaite, Justine Luce and Eduard Dubrovsky. Through their work, art masters express their indifference to what is happening around, since each event affects feelings, emotions, memories and hopes.
The exhibition "Virus of Happiness" is named after the painting of the same name by the Latvian artist Arthur Akopyan. The concept is based on an attempt to convey the individual's worldview under conditions of physical distance, which forces one to plunge into happy and serene memories. Time and reflection create a nostalgic sense of harmony and airiness. The conditions of reality are the pursuit of a global virus of happiness with a widespread risk of infection and a nagging longing for the ease of being.
Anyone can participate in the auction online. The first two weeks of June on the platform of the contemporary art gallery artalea.com it will be possible to bet on lots and track the current value of the work. Bidding will end on July 6 at 20:00 on the website ArtAlea.
The physical pre-auction exhibition "Virus of Happiness" will be held from June 3 to July 5 in the interior design gallery CREA (Brivibas street 103). On weekdays the exhibition will be open from 11:00-19: 00, on Saturdays - from 11:00 - 16:00, Sunday is a day off. Free entrance.