"Pedvale"
Sabile, LV3294,
Latvia
- Arts
Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum conception is to integrate natural landscape, cultural heritage and art in a unified entirety. The territory covers an area of 100 hectares, formed of wide natural landscapes. Artists occupy the landscape with their presence, ideas, thoughts and their artworks. They are invited to seek inspiration and impressions from nature, and to use environmental motives in their works. In creating their works, artists generally use simple materials available in nature. The landscape comes to form a part of the piece of art, providing the emotive and conceptual content of the work.
Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum has become an important cultural center that is valued by artists and visitors alike.
According to the situation that Latvia was occupied by USSR for 50 years, the main objectives for Pedvale Ltd. is to promote intercultural dialog, cultural exchange in the field of contemporary art and to ensure cultural education process.
Since 1993 Pedvale offers individual residencies for artists as well as the opportunity to carry out various creative projects individually. Artists from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Ukraine, Switzerland, Spain, the USA, and Japan have worked in the residence. Pedvale Museum also organizes symposia, workshops, exhibitions and other events for sculptors, painters, printmakers, writers and other artists.
Since 2007 Pedvale has a new programme "S.T.O.N.E.” - stone aS a culTural symbOl and inNovative dimEnsion . Stones have an important role in the historical development of mankind and since ancient times people from different cultures ascribe to stones mythical qualities. As a result stone is a cultural symbol for different epochs and nations. The task for the artist is to integrate the cultural heritage into the form of contemporary art and show an innovative dimension in the traditional stone sculpture.