Guntars Sietiņš ( 1962)

Guntars Sietiņš is the most outstanding master of Latvian contemporary graphic arts, who chooses to work in the complex and time-consuming "black" technique of mezzotint. Now and then the black is diluted with warm brown or green tone.

His compositions are pronouncedly aesthetic and deeply meditative. The artist is dealing with the relationship between the space and the volume, the darkness and the light.

Guntars Sietiņš transforms the reality into the world of surreal objects and things, existing outside time and free of human presence. The objects depicted in the conditional landscapes levitate somewhere between the sky and the earth.

                                                                     Ilze Žeivate, 2007.