Poster and painting exhibition of Juris Dimiters “Signs of my Time” invites the viewer to follow the interests of the legendary artist and his versatile creative activity. When looking for designations for J. Dimiter’s art, several designations come to mind at the same time – surreal, provocative, erotic, decadent, professionally perfectly implemented.
“I am an absolute skeptic, I doubt everything. And what leads me most pessimism is the problem of infinity, because there is something incomprehensible, superhuman. I am an educated materialist. For me, art is, firstly, a profession and, secondly, a way of self-expression, as a language – I present my phrase, not in words, but as a picture, and therefore I need to have the viewers, the audience would express its thoughts and appreciation. Let there be a resonance, because I don’t paint for myself. Sometimes I specially provoke. If we consider art to be a language, a conversation with the viewer, then a poster allows for a much faster response, especially in this age of social networking. The reaction is instantaneous, but it is in the ideal case. Now such a poster of the time of Toulouse Lotrec (French painter) is dead, completely democratized, dissolved on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest. Everyone can open a program on the phone, make their own poster, and if you hit the top ten, you will get ten thousand “likes”. Artist Juris Dimiters
Juris Dimiters was born on October 15, 1947 in Riga in the family of painter Džemma Skulme and actor Artūrs Dimiters. He is a representative of the famous Skulme family in the third generation – the artist’s grandparents are the painter Oto Skulme (1889-1967) and the sculptor Marta Liepiņa-Skulme (1890-1962). J. Dimiters graduated from the Janis Rozentāls Riga Art High School (1965) and the Scenography Department of the Art Academy of Latvia (1973). Since the end of the 1960s, the artist has been equally active in several fields – painting, scenography, graphics, poster, photography. Participated in more than 200 group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, where the posters of Juris Dimiters have received the greatest recognition. Arranged over 20 solo exhibitions. Member of the Latvian Artists’ Union since 1975. He has created scenography for the Latvian National Theater, Valmiera Drama Theater and Dailes Theater, where the legendary productions of Kārlis Auškaps – the play of Ādolfs Alunāns “Jānis Neilands” and Arthur Konan Doyle “Sherlock Holmes” – have become the gold classic of theater art in the second half of the 20th century. The works of the artist Juris Dimiters are located in the collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Latvian Artists’ Union Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Ludwig Museum of Modern Art in Cologne, Cremon Foundation in Maryland, New Orleans Art Museum, Nancy & Norton Doge Collection, the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick and in the private collections of the family Zuzāns, Guntis Belēvičs, Edgars Jaunups and other private collections in Latvia, USA, Russia, Germany, Sweden, etc.
