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"The Ghost" - a new art object is unveiled in Riga Old Town. 30.10.2015.
An art object "The Ghost" has been erected in the capital (In Riga’s Old Town, alongside the rampart on Trokšņu iela) under the auspices of the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation’s “Art in Public Space” programme.
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In Riga’s Old Town, a permanent art object in the form of Ieva Rubeze’s “The Ghost” was unveiled alongside the rampart on Trokšņu iela.
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"The Ghost" has been erected in the capital under the auspices of the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation’s “Art in Public Space” programme. It was launched in 2013 and is the philanthropists’ contribution to transforming Riga into an outstanding cultural metropolis.
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This programme is rendered particularly significant by the circumstance that it began to fully function in 2014 when Riga became a European Capital of Culture. The programme is implemented in collaboration with Riga City Council.
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“This art object has been executed using the technique of bronze casting. “How many awful and secretive tales can an invisible object covered in cloth hide? In a way, this art object is a monument to "veiled sculpture" and to the traditional ghostly technique of hiding under cloth,” explains artist Ieva Rubeze.
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“With this work of art, Ieva Rubeze is continuing her often dream-like poetry. Her work was chosen by philanthropists, as well as Māra Lāce, Juris Dambis and Aleksejs Naumovs last year in the draft competition “Riga Smiles Again”,” explains the programme’s curator Helēna Demakova.
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Pictured: “TÊTE-À-TÊTE” Arts Programme Director Elīna Vikmane and artist Ieva Rubeze.
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Ieva Rubeze (1977) was formerly categorised alongside the so-called “digital romantics”, but she has also created objects, photographic works and worked in other media.
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The practical aspiration of the “Art in Public Space” programme is to create permanent works of contemporary art in the urban environment.
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The programme’s leitmotif is THE JOY OF THOUGHT, accenting the pleasant surprises, paradoxes, global spirit and thinking that contemporary art can bring to the urban environment.
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