Echo Gone Wrong Photo reportage from the exhibition 'SAVAGE' at the open air studio of Latvian contemporary artist Andris Eglītis

The exhibition SAVAGE is open from July 10 till the end of the year in the wild between Dūķi and Jaundrusti in Latvia. In the open air studio of Latvian contemporary artist Andris Eglītis.

Currently the artists Andris Eglītis, Raitis Hrolovičs, Kate Krolle in collaboration with Reinis Bērziņš, Austris Mailītis, Elza Sīle in collaboration with Laimdota Malle, Katrīna Neiburga, Jānis Noviks, Kaspars Podnieks, Liene Rumpe, Kristīne Upīte, Linda Vidgorčika and Teemu Korpela are exhibiting their works in the “SAVAGE”.

The exhibition has been designed as an experience with no opening hours or attendants – you can immerse yourself for 15 minutes, or even stay for a week. The artists’ works are placed along three routes of varying complexity on which visitors can experience the meeting of art and nature.

Everyone can choose how to experience Savage – via a mowed, easy path, a longer meandering trail, or wander around the lake with approximate directions and not always dry feet. Visitors determine the pace of the exhibition – experience for themselves. You can swim in the pond and observe the natural horizon, crouch under the fountain, lay in the canvas hammock while reading the Savage Notebook, erect a tent and spend the night, settle under a canopy and create something of your own, or you can just stop by for a moment – nature and art will do everything for you on their own.

Savage is a process based art exhibition– the opening took a place over a period of three days from July 10 to 12, while in the 1st of August the exhibition had the second opening where joined Elza Sīle & Laimdota Malle and Teemu Korpela artworks. Austris Mailitis together with Zilvinas Landz built a sauna on the pond. And in the evening happened the first Savage Notebook author – reading event.

The online journal Satori created the Savage Notebook in collaboration with Latvian writers – Ivars Šteinbergs, Lauris Veips, Marija Luīze Meļķe, Andris Kalnozols and Henriks Eliass Zēgners. The book consist of contemporary literary notes of prose and poetry about both closer and more distant connections to the exhibition. Now on the paths You can enjoy the art of words while laying in huge canvas like hammocks. Also the Latvian beer brewery MALDUGUNS released a special beer SAVVALA which has brewed for one year and is a special beer type – ironically in Latvian also called SAVAGE. You can buy it in shops and bars in Riga city.

There will follow more events before finissage.

For the latest updates on next happenings go to savvala.lv or fb.me/savvala.lv.

Artists: Andris Eglītis, Raitis Hrolovičs, Kate Krolle in collaboration with Reinis Bērziņš, Austris Mailītis, Elza Sīle in collaboration with Laimdota Malle, Katrīna Neiburga, Jānis Noviks, Kaspars Podnieks, Liene Rumpe, Kristīne Upīte, Linda Vidgorčika and Teemu Korpela.
Exhibition title: SAVVAGE
Organized by: Andris Eglītis, Elīza Elizabete Ramza, Marta Krivade
The graphic design: Aleksandrs Breže [also signs in photos 14 and 27]
Venue: 57°12’43.4″N 25°58’05.7”E / in wilderness of Drusti, Latvia
Date: 10th of July till 31st of December 2020

Photography by: Madara Gritāne

Andris Eglītis excerpts from past and future works, 2011 – 2020
Luxury replica, 2011, sculpture

Andris Eglītis excerpts from past and future works, 2011 – 2020. The smoke beyond the hills, 2012, wooden sculptures

Andris Eglītis excerpts from past and future works, 2011 – 2020. Sculpture from exhibition Playground for accepting mortality in Kloisterruine, Berline, 2019

Andris Eglītis excerpts from past and future works, 2011 – 2020. Solar panels, pump and tuft, 2020, site specific object

Austris Mailītis, Wind observers, 2020, kinetic installation

Iveta Pole and Katrina Neiburga Contemporary pseudo-rituals, 2020, performance based on Katrina Neiburga video Kūku Marija, 2018,
https://ieej.lv/vimeoKatrinaNeiburga2018

Katrīna Neiburga, Kūku Marija, 2018 [visitors could and can try this rebirth experience, as artist calls it, in the exact same pit]

Jānis Noviks, Industry Beaver 17, 2020, installation

Elza Sīle and Laimdota Malle, Sediments, 2020, installation

Kaspars Podnieks photgraphy from Levitation series, 2008 – 2010

Kate Krolle and Reinis Bērziņš, Return, 2020, wooden sculpture

Katrīna Neiburga, Pickled long cucumbers, 2017, video https://ieej.lv/vimeoKatrinaNeiburga

Katrīna Neiburga, Pickled long cucumbers, 2017

Kristīne Upīte, Far away beaches, 2019-2020, sculpture

Liene Rumpe, The kingdom of fungi is chaotic, 2020, installation

Linda Vigdorčika, Castaways, 2020, installation

Raitis Hrolovičš, We reach two large trees by the riverbank, 2020, diptych

Teemu Korpela, Intercourse between two worlds, 2020, installation

Sauna building by Zilvinas Landz and Austris Mailītis

Reading hammock