Valdis Putnins

PAINTER. GLASS ARTIST. PHOTOGRAPHER. VISUAL ARTIST.

Painting - Multilateral personal experiments in oil-coloured smears on the surface, discovering and clarifying oil-coloured blending innovations. Composing contemporary and conceptual compositions. Themes: symbiosis of sacred and secular elements, interaction between religion and iconographic character, formation, sexuality and mental capacity. Reflections of semiconscious reflections on canvases, surfaces …

Glass art - Integrating a timely and conceptual whiff into glass, releasing light games into glass surfaces, both in melting and stained glass. Theatrical reflections in glass tectonics, often integrating text, photographs, and self produced faces and body lines. Themes: life-to-death patterns, religious notes, paranormal phenomena of sexuality. Taking photographs: photographs of glass, textiles, concrete, metal, colouring materials in reciprocal live-in (installation) formats …

Photography - Minimalist saturation of the outside world, a synthesised vision outside time and space, perpetuating contrasts in parallel with the right perception of the world from another view. I limit the perception of themes to my unique expression, bordering between conventionalism and unattai...

Art Academy of Latvia, Visual Plastic Art, Glass Art, BA 2021 - ...
ISSP Contemporary Photography School, Riga, Latvia, 2020 - 2022.

*Glass Art Group exhibition “Fine Fraction”, Livani Glass and Crafts Centre Gallery, Livani, Latvia, 2023.
*Glass art. Group exhibition “On Water God's Shoulders”, Art Biennale “Marina 2023”, Jurmala Museum, Jurmala, Latvia, 2023
*Group photo exhibition “Noise”, Art Centre “Totaldobze”, Riga, Latvia, 2023
*Glass Art Group exhibition, “Traction” - “Riga Last Thursdays”, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 2023
*Publication in photo edition, “ISSP Agenda”, Art Gallery ISSP, Riga, Latvia, 2022
*Group photo exhibition “Turn the World, 20 x 20”, Radio NABA, Riga, Latvia, 2022
*Painting group exhibition “Latvia State Forests Scholarship of Art- 2022”, Latvia State forests Gallery, Riga, Latvia, 2022
*Solo - painting personal exhibition “Creator”, exhibition point “Nail”, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 2022
*Publication of the Latvian Contemporary Photography in the Book “Yet another boring book on Latvian Photography”-”Latvian Photography 2022”, FK magazine, Riga, Latvia, 2022
*Painting group exhibition “Beautiful was Father's District”, Baldone Culture Centre, Baldone, Latvia, 2022
*Stained-glass art group exhibition “Then and Now”, Kuldiga Old Town Hall Gallery, Kuldiga, Latvia, 2022
*Glass Art Group exhibition “Clear,...