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Imants Tillers
Remembering the unknown

“Critical Forests” is the evocative name of a gently meandering essayistic text on aesthetics by 18th-century German philosopher Johann Herder; it is also the title of Imants Tillers’ new series of paintings that define this exhibition. Like Herder, Tillers takes us on a journey, not only through clear regions, but deeply thicketed tracts of country, along meandering paths that dead-end themselves just as often as they continue. Each work shows us a different guise of forest: closed or open, wintery or vernal. Regardless, the forest Tillers paints here is …