Atis jakobsons biography

Since graduating the master studies in painting department of Latvian Academy of Arts in till this very day my creative works were based in painting traditions. Also during the last five years ( — ) I have worked mainly in the painting technique, however along with this I experimented also with other arts media and forms of expressions — coal drawings, sculptures, ceramic, spatial installations, and experiments with sound.

Conceptually, most of my pieces of art are the research of the primary impulse of creation (both in arts, in philosophy and in context of quantum physics). During the process of creating art, I try to maintain intuitive, free approach that purifies from all what is odd by playing with boundaries between a subject and an object, the impossible and daily things, between the humane and divine, and corporeity and conceptual.

My current practice of arts is deeply related with the research of mental heritage and a