Sigita Daugule, The Autumn Fields, 2005, Oil on Canvas

The autumn fields. 2005. Oil on canvas, 100x100 cm How to understand Sigita Daugule's work? At the cradle of her style (emerged in late 90s) there are significant memories of the expansion of modern art with its uprising against classical culture and against man as a whole mayor. The criteria of modernism are abstract concepts, abstract emotions, and the order set by chaos. Sigita Daugule's painting has closely merged with these criteria, but not only with them. It also merges with the dynamics of postmodernism – with those fragments of classics, larger or smaller, which floating slowly through the cultural space and spreading their energy, particularly tempting since the 70s. Postmodern situation determines the composite essence of Daugule's paintings – they contain both classical elements, such as color harmony, narrative and imaginative plots, and are modernistic, with typical too self-sufficient, too ambitious masses of colors and strokes, that create abstract dramas. Sigita Daugule paints as an agent of chaos theory, who provokes "deep" color dramas. And "deep" here must be understood literally, because it happens not like a cultural drama of color harmony that shakes taste, as it is, let’s say, in expressionism, but rather the chemical collisions of paint on canvas. Varnishes and solutions are applied on oil paints that converts them beyond recognition. It sounds and also resembles alchemy. Sigita Daugule Member of the Artist's Union of Latvia since 1998. EDUCATION 1995 - 1998 Art Academy of Latvia, Class of Mural Painting 1996 - 1998 Art Academy of Latvia, Master's Programme 1992 - 1996 Art Academy of Latvia, Bachelor's Programme SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 "Painting" Art Station Dubulti, Jurmala, Latvia 2019 Gallery Kunstraum, Vienna, Austria (together with Vineta Kaulača) 2018 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia 2017 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia 2017 "In one room". Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia 2016 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia 2015 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia 2013 Gallery Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria 2012 Riga City exhibition Hall Art Space Riga, Riga, Latvia 2011 gallery Seywald, Salzburg, Austria 2010 Showroom for Young Art, Gallery Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria 2009 gallery ASuna, Riga, Latvia 2009 Galerie Malmede - Kunst, Cologne, Germany 2008 Kunstsalon Franz Leuwer, Bremen, Germany 2008 Galerie Malmede - Kunst, Cologne, Germany 2007 Galerie Malmede - Kunst, Cologne, Germany 2007 Kunstsalon Franz Leuwer, Bremen, Germany 2006 gallery alpha, Vienna, Austria 2005 Kunstsalon Franz Leuwer, Bremen, Germany 2004 as part of the project compilation 2112 m europe, Galerie am Hauptplatz, Hainburg, Austria 2004 Artists' Union of Latvia gallery 2002 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia 2001 gallery alpha, Vienna, Austria 2001 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia 2000 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia 2000 gallery ASuna, Riga, Latvia 1999 gallery Korotan, Vienna, Austria 1999 KulturKontakt Gastateliers, Vienna, Austria 1999 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia 1998 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 " Location/Dislocation. Between remembering and forgetting " Art Station Dubulti, Jūrmala, Latvia 2019 "Location/Dislocation. Between remembering and forgetting" Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art centre, Daugavpils, Latvia 2019 "Couples" Mūkuslas Art salon, Riga, Latvia 2019 "Fear Not" Mukusala Art Salon, Riga, Latvia. 2018 100 in Latvian Art, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art centre, Daugavpils, Latvia 2016 Barricades 25 - Autumn 2015. International exhibition if Baltic artists, Artists' Union of Latvia gallery, Riga, Latvia 2015 Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection. Mappa dell'arte nuova - Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. Italy (Catalogue) 2014 "Transfers", Joyart, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China 2014 "Kelias/Ceļš/Kett" travelling exhibition of the artists of Baltic states - gallery Arka in Vilnius, Lithuania, gallery of the Artist's Union of Latvia in Riga, Latvia, Pärnu Museum in Pärnu, Estonia 2014 "Latvian contemporary painting" Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art centre, Daugavpils, Latvia 2013 "Latvian Art" exhibition of Latvian Contemporary Art, Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland 2012 "Such a Place Latvia/Takie miejsce - Łotwa" gallery Bielska BWA, Bielsko Biala, Poland 2012 Exposition of Latvian Artist's Union at International Art Salon "CDH-2012", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia (Catalogue) 2011 " Is It That He Does Not Seek The Truth, But Does Want To Influence?" exhibition of Latvian Contemporary Art, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia 2011 "Dense space" works from the collection of Dr. Guntis Belevics, Exhibition Hall of the National museum of Art Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia (Catalogue) 2011 "By the Amber Sea" Latvian National Museum of Art collection, Exhibition Hall of the National museum of Art Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia (Catalogue) 2010 "Viecherei" Gallery Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria 2008 "European cities in the paintings of Latvian artists", European Commission Representation of Latvia, Brussels, Belgium (Catalogue) 2006 "Lebenslust" gallery derKunstraum, Vienna, Austria 2005 "Wind Art festival 2005" Sangaksan, Sangmori, South Jejugun, South Korea (Catalogue) 2005 "Stilla kaos - Förgänglighet" in Rydals Museum, Sweden 2004 "Still life. The 20th - 21st Centuries" in the Exhibition Hall of the National museum of Art Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia 2004 International art project "Tourist City", Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, Bremen, Germany (Catalogue) 2003 "Autumn 2003: Private space" in the Exhibition Hall of the National museum of Art Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia 2003 76eme Salon de Lyon et Sud - Est, Palais des expositions, Lyon, France (Catalogue) 2003 "Invasion of Latvian Art in Tartu" exhibition of young latvian artists in the library of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia 2003 "Abstractionism in Latvian Painting" in the Exhibition Hall of the National museum of Art Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia 2002 "Reaktion" exhibition of young Latvian artists in the Central Bank of Rheinland - Pfalz and Saarland, Mainz, Germany (Catalogue) 2001 "Autumn 2001" in the Exhibition Hall of the National museum of Art Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia 2001 "Metropolis. Riga" Multimedia art exhibition in Riga Stock Exchange building (Catalogue) 2000 "Autumn 2000" in the Exhibition Hall of the National museum of Art Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia 1998 "Autumn 98" in the Exhibition Hall of the National museum of Art Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia Since 1994 has taken part at more than 70 exhibitions in Latvia, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Estonia, France, Sweden, Belgium, South Korea, Russia, Poland. SCOLARSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2010 quartier 21 scholarship in Museumqartier, Vienna, Austria 2007 scholarship of Kulturkapitala fonds in Riga, Latvia 2006 scholarship of Kulturkapitala fonds in Riga, Latvia 2003 the Second International Plain Air in Urban Environment, Valmiera, Latvia 2002 scholarship of Kulturkapitala fonds in Riga, Latvia 2001 artist in residence in Künstlerhaus Lukas, Stiftung Kulturfonds, Ahrenshoop, Germany 2000 scholarship of KulturKontakt Austria 1999 international Artists' Colony MMM ART in Medana, Slovenia 1999 artist in residence at KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, Austria 1997/1996 summer camps for creative youth in Borl, Slovenia AWARDS 2008 "Painting of the year" prize of the "Swedbank" in cooperation wirth the gallery ASuna 2000 Prize at the competition of Agency Riga 800, Riga, Latvia 1998 Prize at the competiotion "Riga in contemporary art", Riga, Latvia PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Latvian National State Museum of Art Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre Collection of Modern Art of Swedbank Zuzanu family collection Belevics family collection Luciano Benetton Collection Imago Mundi PUBLICATIONS Dace Lamberga, Laima Slava "Sigita Daugule", monograph, 284 pages, Publishing house Neputns, 2017, Riga, Latvia Sigita Daugule "Jānis Liepiņš", monograph, 120 pages, Publishing house Neputns, 2015, Riga, Latvia