Right now, when most of us are still living at the flair of the beginning of a new year, considering events of the past and of the future, re-estimating values and searching for new encouragements that could help at raising upon casual routine, planning all kinds of travels, the solo-exhibition of the works by Gunārs Krollis in the Museum of Foreign Art can be regarded as a particularly stirring and relevant introduction into acquisition of culture and crossing the borders. At any rate every visitor here can regard from his own point of view the twenty five just created and mostly first exposed drawings by the artist. Though I would like to stress some crucial aspects, that are intrinsic and constitutive for the artist's whole work.
First, the idea of the exposed works partially roots at the film about Alexandria in Egypt, watched by Gunārs Krollis just at the Museum of Foreign Art. This probably serves as the formal source that is easier to capture, and the deepest inspiration comes from the artist's soul. He has always been curious about the unexplored, subtle, unsettled, incomprehensible and inconceivable. And his readings do not offer simple and rationally explicable answers. We can assert that Gunārs Krollis belongs to that part of the Latvian artists who most often has gone abroad to synthesize and recreate in his art the experience, revelations and cultural values gained from their travellings. Thus he has expanded our spiritual concepts, and the common atmosphere of the exhibition leads us up to our inner and outer worlds.
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