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TIME AND REFLECTIONS, 2020 PORCELAIN ON-GLAZE PAINTING 4.7X3.9X3.9 IN. | 12X10X10 CM.
INVITED ARTIST
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JURIS BERGINS

Lives and works in Riga, Latvia
http://www.porcelain.lt

Juris Bergins, born and raised in Riga, the capital of Latvia, did not as it may seem, it was actually an advantage that Bergins had not
come to ceramics by a direct route. He first studied painting at the passed through an academic programme of ceramics, as he was
Janis Rozentals Art High School in Riga, and later, design at the protected from clichés and taboos arising from a traditional ceramics
Art Academy of Latvia. As he began his artistic journey, the young education. The search for his own creative identity coincided
artist tried various areas of creative activity, but found his true with the time of an historical breakthrough: Gorbachev’s policy
calling in ceramics. He displayed his first ceramic works, dishes of liberalization (perestroika) in the Soviet Union and the ‘singing
and vases with over glaze decoration as well as a painted toilet, in revolution’ of the Baltic republics (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania)
1987 at an exhibition at the “Jana seta” Gallery in the Old Town of which made it possible for the restoration of their independence in
Riga. It was the success of this show that led Bergins to develop his a largely peaceful way. Bergins’ maturation was influenced by the
individual style that produced a stand-out series of works at the 1989 broad spiritual up-welling of this period, and the increased attention
exhibition held at the Dzintari House of Artists in Jurmala. Strange paid to the historical past of his country and its people. (excerpt)

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