Andris Eglītis is one of the most brilliant Latvian painters of his generation. In his practice he continuously creates tools to facilitate new ways of thinking through painting for himself and others. In his work with the artistic community in various spaces and locations - balancing between urban and rural, he enabled himself to achieve tremendous artistic freedom bringing a huge variety of works in scale, style and material. Focusing on the very notion of Eglītis' creative practice this major exhibition of a locally and internationally acclaimed artist is created not just as Eglītis' solo exhibition, but the exhibition as a reflection of collective art practice in its creation involving other creative community members, their artworks, and ideas.
Together with the creative team Eglītis sees the exhibition as a particular personal and local spatial phenomenon in Western culture, and its process can be understood as a creation of an ecosystem, a collective consciousness, as well as an inquiry into how it relates to local contexts and identity. Andris Eglītis’ artistic practice and upcoming exhibition makes use of the imagination and the language of painting as an instrument, constituting a proposal and a testimony of the environment as a life-affirming and meaningful space with which one has an earnest and non-hierarchical relationship.