Ilgvars Zalāns (born 24 September 1962) is a
Latvian painter. He is generally identified as an
Expressionist
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
and is one of the most influential contemporary expressionist painters in northern Europe. In the course of his career he was influenced by
Gutai group
The was a Japanese avant-garde artist group founded in the Hanshin region by young artists under the leadership of the painter Jirō Yoshihara in Ashiya, Japan, in 1954. It operated until shortly after Yoshihara's death in 1972.
The group, tod ...
,
Fluxus
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental performance art, art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finishe ...
movement, and other modern art activists and has turned more to the scene of action-painting. Since 2007 Ilgvars Zalans had a 33-country world tour with his
action-painting performances.
In the past years he has actively taken the opportunities offered by artist residences, thereby traveling almost half of the world.
Lately, his art is better known in Indonesia, Malaysia, China, and Japan than in Latvia, because he has lived and worked while travelling abroad extensively. In his art Zalans focuses on images and motifs that are fundamental, archetypal, and universal in human experience, as opposed to those that are socially determined.
The exhibitions of the artist regularly take place in Latvia and abroad. In 2015 his works were showcased at the Scope Basel and Scope Miami Beach art shows during the ArtBasel weeks and at Art Copenhagen, the Scandinavia's International Art Fair for Contemporary & Modern Art.
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1962 births
Living people
20th-century Latvian painters
21st-century Latvian painters
Latvian male painters
Latvian Expressionist painters
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