Gallery 427 is delighted to announce the group exhibition “A Guide To Making A Genie”! The poet Mirdza Bendrupe occasionally called herself a witch. In her notes “A Guide To Making A Genie”, written in the 30ies, Bendrupe sets forth instructions for summoning an accomodating spirit who would help “preserve the youthfulness and beauty of (..) face and body, to eliminate different beauty defects, to correct shapes and lines, skin colour, hair colour and thickness, eyelash length etc.”
With the summoning of a genie on the evening of December 12th the group exhibition will open where Atis Jākobsons, Raids Kalniņš, Lev Kazachenko, Zane Raudiņa, Ieva Rubeze, Viktors Timofejevs and Alexandra Zuckerman will help welcome prana through medulla ublongata. Exhibition curators: Ieva Kraule, Kaspars Groševs
While the city is dressing up in bright Christmas lights and children are having fun in the ice-rinks with their parents sweating in the shops’ queues, in this darkest time of the year the shiny white walls of the gallery are wrapping themselves into a cloak of rosy light. Every now and again dizzying swirls of sandalwood smoke veil what has never been disclosed to the ignorant. Lifeless flowers have hung their heads down in the presence of winter. Artists’ works hiding in the dark corners of the gallery are peering back at the viewer – some in remembrance of the beginng of the world and ancient rituals, others striving to heal the ones weakened by the Christmas hustle. In a place now hiding beyond the strict rules of the rational and the material, these words are heard quietly:
“Om! I wish, I plead and I command for a lot of pure, good, strong cosmic prana and akasha to flow, appear and accumulate right away in this space around me. May prana and akasha flow from the East, the West, the North, the South, the heights, the depths, the vastness, the faraway and all the states where they are currently free and can assist in the work of creation. May the prana and akasha flow that can extricate from water, fire, earth and air.”
The exhibition is open from December 12 until February 6 on Wednesdays and Thursdays 4pm – 7pm. To visit the exhibition at a different time please make an appointment via phone or email. Free entry
