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Rainis X 2
Rainis X 2
Sculptor – Aigars Bikše / Architect – Ilze Liepiņa
Two Rainis’s came into being according to the plan by Andris Vilks, director of the Latvian National Library, to set up a monument to the great Latvian poet Jānis Rainis (1865-1929) which would be close to the library building.
One of the basic ideas of the work “Two Rainis’s” is a personal growth and development possibilities: they are given to everybody, yet to understand them, find one’s place in the world’s expanse, is a hard task.
In layout-making process in natural conditions one found the most suitable disposition and lenght of the bench where the three-metre high big Rainis and the one-metre high small Rainis are sitting, i.e. 14 metres. Designing, planning and layout making was carried out in a creative cooperation between sculptor Aigars Bikše and architect Ilze Liepiņa.
Both figures of Rainis are identical. Rainis seems to be depicted in a moment of rest in a nature, barefoot, with a simple shirt, looking somewhere far away.
Sculpture and bench’s legs are moulded in bronze while the middle part of the bench, intended for sitting, is made of oak wood which is pleasant to touch in any weather conditions and fulfils this function correspondingly.
/Ināra Appena, Mg.Art/
Rainis X 2
Sculptor – Aigars Bikše / Architect – Ilze Liepiņa
Two Rainis’s came into being according to the plan by Andris Vilks, director of the Latvian National Library, to set up a monument to the great Latvian poet Jānis Rainis (1865-1929) which would be close to the library building.
One of the basic ideas of the work “Two Rainis’s” is a personal growth and development possibilities: they are given to everybody, yet to understand them, find one’s place in the world’s expanse, is a hard task.
In layout-making process in natural conditions one found the most suitable disposition and lenght of the bench where the three-metre high big Rainis and the one-metre high small Rainis are sitting, i.e. 14 metres. Designing, planning and layout making was carried out in a creative cooperation between sculptor Aigars Bikše and architect Ilze Liepiņa.
Both figures of Rainis are identical. Rainis seems to be depicted in a moment of rest in a nature, barefoot, with a simple shirt, looking somewhere far away.
Sculpture and bench’s legs are moulded in bronze while the middle part of the bench, intended for sitting, is made of oak wood which is pleasant to touch in any weather conditions and fulfils this function correspondingly.
/Ināra Appena, Mg.Art/