At the Riga Porcelain Museum from 15 December, 2016 to 29 January, 2017
The Riga Porcelain Museum continues the series of exhibitions focusing on artists who worked at Riga Porcelain Factory and created industrially produced designs there as well as unique art pieces.
This year solo exhibitions of Dace Bluma, Inese Margevica, Beatrise Karklina and Aija Murniece works have been already held. The concluding exhibition of this year is "All life with Porcelain" by Ilga Dreiblate (1933). The exhibition will run from December 15., 2016 till January 29., 2017 and will feature pieces like decorative vases and plates, tea and coffee sets, toiletteries, sets for spices and other designs created in 1970s as well as conteporary work thus giving insight into Ilga Dreiblate’s creative oeuvre.
Almost all Ilga Dreiblate’s life has been dedicated to porcelain. After graduating from the Ceramics Department of the Riga Applied School of Art in 1953, Ilga Dreiblate worked for the Riga Porcelain Factory for many years. There she was mostly engaged in designing decorations for industrially produced goods as well as doing original handpaintings for special commissions. On occasions she created porcelain forms, too. After closing the factory she still continues her creative work by working on various souvenirs for cultural institutions. Her strengths mainly lie in ornamental decorations. As Veronika Kucinska has stated in the 1996 encyclopaedia „Latvia and Latvians. Art and architecture in biographies 2" Dreiblate is an “outstanding master of graphic designs". The artist’s style can be characterized by usage of botanical motifs and their stylizations, animalia as well as figural compositions and depiction of architecture.
In the solo exhibition "All Life with Porcelain” along with original and industrially produced pieces created in 1970s and 1980s Ilga Dreiblate will also offer new ones, developed as souvenirs for local cultural institutions and city councils or implemented as finalized works of once envisioned pieces such as decorations for dishes for children. The exhibition features pieces from the collection of the Riga Porcelain Museum, Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation and the artists' own property.
Publicity photo: Decorative plate. 1970. Author Ilga Dreiblate. Collection of Riga Porcelain Museum.