Ivars Heinrihsons
1945, Latvia
Ivars Heinrihsons is one of the most vivid personalities in Latvian fine arts scene of this time – a painter, a brilliant representative of neo-expressionism in Latvian contemporary painting, and for many years a Professor of Painting at the Art Academy of Latvia.
The artist follows his favoгrite themes – horses, ballet, piano and man in the city. This image system personifies the human ego (including Heinrihsons himself) – nature, spirit and intellect in the first place. These are both thoughts, body and mind, which contain the opposites – fights and all anxieties (a horse). This kind of juxtaposition covers the entire oeuvre of Ivars Heinrihsons – both in the system of images, in the use of colours, and in the gesture of the brush. White and black, light and dark, peace and movement like inhalation and exhalation – everything is pulsating and mutually replaces each other, mutual attracting, interweaving and repulsing.
Ivars Heinrichson’s works are in public collections – the Latvian National Art Museum and the Latvian Artists’ Union Museum in Riga, Latvia; Antonio Pérez Fonda at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cuenca, Spain; In the Friedemann Stockart Collection, Munich, Germany; Graphics in the Hus Collection in Mariefred, Sweden; In the collection of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, Great Britain; State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia; Zimmerly Art Museum – Collection of Norton and Nancy Dodge, New Jersey, USA.