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To kick off its 55th anniversary year, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle is delighted to present Latvian artist Jānis Avotiņš in his eighth solo exhibition. Atmospherically dense, his mysterious paintings reveal cinematographic sceneries with contemplative figures embedded in natural, architectural, or void settings. Appearing alongside his usual subtle paintings are more concrete and multicolored works.
Jānis Avotiņš’s paintings take us to a temporal and spatial vacuum, a state of suspension. Timeless and time-specific, indeterminate and multivalent, real and imagined aspects ofreality seem to …