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When Raimonds Stapr膩ns last staged a personal exhibition at The Latvian National Museum of Art in 2006, he wrote in the catalogue: 鈥淭here is a broad grey area between realism and abstract or nonobjective art, where those who don鈥檛 really prefer one or the other wander in search of their own path. And it seems I鈥檓 one of those.鈥� The 2006 exhibition was seen as an outstanding art event in Latvia, with 35 works ranging from the 1970s to recent creations. Over the past 10 years, the Latvian art audience has remembered this exhibition as one of the highest artistic quality.

 This year, the museum has invited Raimonds Stapr膩ns to present works that have been painted since his previous exhibition. Stapr膩ns paints each and every day; his slow and methodical process results in paintings that have a tense situation of balance. The artist has sent five paintings from his studio in San Francisco for this exhibition 鈥� four landscapes and one still life painting. Dialogues of colours, proportions of planes, and relations between sunny and shadowy areas are in total balance, bringing together the contradictory concepts of tension and peace.