Painter
· Born in 1962
- Latvia
Ilgvars Zalans
48 Artworks
Ilgvars Zalans
Latvia
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Art Fair Participant
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
« I focus on images and motifs that are fundamental, archetypal, and universal in human experience, as opposed to those that are socially determined. »
Ilgvars Zalāns is a Latvian visual artist working primarily with abstract painting and mixed media. His practice investigates borders as conditions of tension, control, and transformation rather than fixed geographical lines. Using repetitive structures, grid formations, and deliberate material disruptions, he reflects on how systems of order reveal their fragility over time.
Zalāns’ works combine vivid, often contrasting color fields with graphic elements and traces of erosion, allowing the painting to function as both an image and a physical record. His recent projects focus on border zones as spaces where political, social, and perceptual boundaries intersect, positioning abstraction as a critical tool for examining contemporary instability.
Zalāns’ works combine vivid, often contrasting color fields with graphic elements and traces of erosion, allowing the painting to function as both an image and a physical record. His recent projects focus on border zones as spaces where political, social, and perceptual boundaries intersect, positioning abstraction as a critical tool for examining contemporary instability.
- Nationality
- Latvia
- Nationality
- 1962
- Nationality
- Painter
2nd Velasquez painting & sculpture Award- Best Abstract Second Prize- Shanghai, China
scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture And Science of NETHERLANDS- myinfo.cv.awards.award.is_winner- Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gangwon Triennale 2021 / Hongcheon Art Museum - Gangwon, South Korea
Roots&roofs / G.art gallery - Berlin, Germany
SCOPE Art Basel 2015 / Basel Art Fair - Basel, Switzerland
SCOPE Miami Beach 2015 / SCOPE MIAMI BEACH - Miami, United States
Orange art centre - Bacolod, Philippines
Perahu Art center - Yogyakarta, Indonesia
ArtexParte II - Buenos Aires, Argentina
HOM Art Center - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Organhaus Art center - Chongqing, China
Kamiyama artist residency - Tokushima, Japan
Mark Rothko Art center, Latvia
Benetton Art Collection, Italy
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