Open until December 31, 2012!
On July, 2012, in the middle of the summer, at Mazmežotne palace a workshop took place organised by Regīna and Adris Deičmanis. The workshop was particularly significant because of its participants who had come not only from Latvia but also from foreign countries and all of them had to paint porcelain objects. As a base-shape for the 9 day creative works served the teapot and phial, designed by Āris Segliņš. Those objects were painted by various contemporary artists such as Yulia Zhukova who is one of the leading artists at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in Saint Petersburg, internationally recognised Lithuanian artist Dala Laučkaite – Jakimavičiene, and local artists – Tatjana Kirvenkova, Helēna Heinrihsone and Ivars Heinrihsons, some of those artists usually do not work with porcelain. Even though in the last decade the porcelain manufacturing in Latvia reached the standstill – apart from few manufactures – the workshop at Mazmežotnes palace as well as the Zvārtava Symposiums organised by Egils Rozenbergs and the collection of Zvārtava Art Centre, where a part of the objects from this workshop will find home, allows to maintain alive the porcelain art’s and production’s thread in the fabric of Latvian culture. The Riga Porcelain Museum expresses its gratitude to the organisers and participant of this symposium for the possibility to introduce the public with some of the original artworks created there.