Juris Zvirbulis
"Bill of exchange - 1000 Lats ", 20th century. 90's, canvas/oil, 30 x 70 cm.1 santime on the back of the work.
Price: 500 €
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"Bill of exchange - 1000 Lats ", 20th century. 90's, canvas/oil, 30 x 70 cm.1 santime on the back of the work.
If you interested in purchasing this work please contact gallery
Juris Zvirbulis (1944) – a watercolorist, painter, graphic artist, and book illustrator. He has also created mural paintings for public interiors in Latvia and abroad. Juris Zvirbulis is one of the most vivid representatives of Latvian surrealism, known for his unique personal technique in watercolor, painting, and graphics. He has been influenced by such European modernist masters as Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis and Hieronymus Bosch, whose imaginative spaces and symbolic systems resonate in Zvirbulis’ visual language. His works can be found in several significant collections: the Latvian National Museum of Art, the collection of the Artists’ Union of Latvia, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the collections of the Russian Ministry of Culture, the A. Pushkin State Museum, the collection of the Bank of Latvia, and the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art at Rutgers University (USA).
The artist’s fascination with ancient objects and documents is no coincidence. A clairvoyant once revealed to him that in a previous life he had been a pirate. Old documents may have lost their monetary value, yet they preserve evidence of transactions, people’s handwriting, and the signs of their era. The artist searches for these documents meticulously at collectors’ gatherings and in antique shops. In his works, they are woven in as intriguing historical artifacts and, now endowed with new meaning, regain their liquidity as works of art.