I SEE NATURE LIKE PAINT: GILLIAN AYRES PAINTINGS 1972-83, Gillian Ayres, the British artist of PIFO Gallery, first solo exhibition in Latvia, has presented on 12 April at Mark Rothko Art center in Daugavpils.

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Gillian Ayres(1930-2018)

Gillian Ayres was born in London in 1930, studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1945 to 1950. 

Gillian Ayres was the only woman in the most important postwar exhibition of British art, ‘Situation’ (Royal Society of Arts) in 1960. In the nearly 30 years since her graduation, Ayres has held several teaching positions. She was the first female Head of Painting at a British art school in1978. She was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize in 1989, elected Royal Academician in 1991 and awarded an Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2011. 

As a pioneer of Tachisme (or Tachism, a style of non-geometric abstract popular in Europe after World War II), Gillian Ayres was greatly influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and subsequently created art in a lyrical variant of action painting. From the late 1970s to 1980s, Ayres created a number of works known as “erotic, sublime paintings” which depict the encounter of the female body with nature and result in paintings full of whimsy color. Ayres also attempted to go beyond one single dimensionality and push boundaries in all likelihood, manifesting how an artist could explore all the possibilities of pigment and painting through continued practicing. 

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PIFO Gallery was founded in 2006. Which is China's premier gallery to present abstract art. PIFO brings together the works of contemporary Chinese artists with European post-war masters. At PIFO we believe that the experience of art is profoundly transformative. Seeing the world differently through the works of artists is an inspiration. We encourage our collectors to develop their individual vision and share our expertise in art to help them build excellent collections. The goal is to spread connoisseurship for Asian and Western abstraction in art and deepen the understanding and appreciation for the artists that we (re-)discovered and believe in. 

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