On Friday 26 April, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Centre will celebrate its sixth anniversary with a lecture, a film screening, a discussion and the opening of the new exhibition season.<\/p>\n
Peace and tension, tension and peace beat the changing rhythm to the passage of time, linking yesterday, today and tomorrow. Together or separately, they stir the minds of individual artists and the general public. Tension grips the exhibition \u201cArtist and Witness\u201d by American artist Boris Lurie, the founder of No!Art movement. In a similar vein, peace and tension are the two basic concepts directly or indirectly contemplated by participants of the traditional spring exhibition of artists from Latgale region. An equal degree of tension and peace is conjured and sustained by two ceramic artists from Hungary \u2013 M\u00e1rta Radics (\u201cKingdom\u201d) and Zs\u00f3fia Karsai (\u201cStep by Step\u201d). Even at times when we declare to ourselves that we like something, as Maija B\u0113rzi\u0146a has done in her artist statement, quiet confidence is inconceivable without straining emotional undertones of lived experience. The experience and traditions of 40 years have found their reflection in a group project from the Funen Printmaking Workshop (Denmark), where peace and tension alternate to create a constant drive to move forward.
\nAll these blends of peace and tension, so distinct yet also alike in their individual tones and qualities, can be traced in the six new exhibition projects, which will mark the sixth anniversary of Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, declaring it a home for \u201cart in motion\u201d.<\/p>\n