02.10. - 05.10.2025

LITEXPO

Laisves av. 5, Viļņa, Lietuva

Maksla XO Gallery at ART VILNIUS 2025

Artists: Roman Korovin, Arturs Berzins, Michel Castaignet

Booth  3.05

www.artvilnius.com

MAKSLA XO Gallery are very pleased to welcome you as our guest to ART VILNIUS 2025 – one of the largest contemporary art fairs in the Baltics. In this year ArtVilnius will place special emphasis on art collecting in the Baltic States, and for the first time ever, will comprehensively present a curated range of private and institutional collections from the region.
MAKSLA XO will present three contemporary artists from Latvia and France: Roman Korovin, Arturs Bērziņš, Michel Castaignet. The collection unites three different visions of the landscape: landscape as a line, landscape as an essay, and landscape as an identity. Each artist brings a mature and recognisable visual language, offering a nuanced exploration of place, memory, and perception within the broader context of contemporary landscape painting.

Arturs Bērziņš has developed a distinctive drawing-painting technique that lies halfway between photography and painting – a process he describes as a “long-exposure photography” in terms of time. His works serve as conceptual studies of contemporary events and historical contexts. In his latest series “Trees Grow Where They Are Allowed; Trees Grow as They Are Allowed”, the artist continues his exploration of the structures that shape culture and environment, space and time, modes of thought, and archetypes. For over a decade, the artist primary source of insight has been nature and the environment in which he lives and works – the world, place, territory, and his home – Latvia.
https://www.makslaxogalerija.lv/eng/artists/arturs-berzins/

Roman Korovin – winner of the Purvitis Prize 2025, most prestigious Latvian prize in fine arts.Hisartistic language is defined by the poetics of the anti-sublime. His works are created as witty and anecdotal series of episodes, most often grouped in diptychs or triptychs, thus creating new meanings in mutual interaction. Its are characterized by precise observation, visual paradoxes and humor about ordinary objects and everyday episodes. Roman Korovin’s painting invites reflection on the medium itself – the chiaroscuro, contrasts, semi-tones – where the depicted object can be brought to abstraction. His painting glows quietly with a particular picturesque sensuality, marked by simplicity and truthfulness. Melting snow, autumn leaves, a blue towel in grass, a birch tree and its shadow, a road between a pine tree and a bush... these are the modest heroes of Roman Korovin’s stories about painting, inviting the viewer to meditate on timeless themes.
https://www.makslaxogalerija.lv/eng/artists/roman-korovin/

French painter Michel Castaignet’s extensive knowledge of art history and his love of art history allow him to work in different styles, driving a constant search that leads from one series of works to the next. In recent years, he has been interested in graphically simplifying the complexity of the art world, looking for new links between drawing and painting. This approach is reflected in his series “Landscape as a Line” – a formal meditation of landscape. The artist is looking for ways to make a very minimal landscape. Just a few lines to suggest a tree, a hedge… It could also be a tree and a cloud, depends on the colours. Maybe just trees… or tree, haystack and horizon… The plain and colourful shapes become signs and their balances create minimal landscape that invite the viewer to reflect about the impermanence of the world.
https://www.makslaxogalerija.lv/eng/artists/michel-castaignet/

Support:
Ltd “Mākslas galerija Māksla XO” on the 10th of April 2024 signed an agreement No 17.1-1-L-2024/189  with the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia on receiving support for export assistance under the project “SME Innovative Business Development” co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.