DĀVIS OZOLS

STICKY FINGERS

On October 18 at 18:00, painter Dāvis Ozols will open his solo exhibition “Sticky Fingers” at the MABOCA Gallery, Visuma centrs 2. The opening event will feature live music performances by Andrejs Gradinārovs and Tv Maskava.

Dāvis Ozols is an artist who has been skillfully refining his painting practice in the airbrush technique for several years.

“In painting, I’m interested in pure and beautiful forms — the content is often secondary. A woman’s shoe is just a shoe, but when multiplied many times across canvases, it begins to tell a story and gains new meaning. In my works, the comic often plays with the romantic. I paint with an airbrush and use stencils. In this technique, the works emerge hazily sharp — the depicted forms merge and blur, like a dream you’re trying to recall, but only fragments remain.

The exhibition title “Sticky Fingers” references the Rolling Stones album cover “Sticky Fingers”, which features a sexualized image of a man in jeans. The author of that image is Andy Warhol. Just as Warhol used screen printing to reproduce and elevate pop culture icons of his time, I too, through the language of painting, have multiplied various motifs to reveal the ideals and symbols of human bodily beauty.”

The exhibition will be open from October 18 to November 11.
Opening hours: Mon, Tue, Sat: 12:00–16:00; Sun: 12:00–18:00.
For visits outside regular hours or to book a private tour, please contact the gallery at 22564227.

The exhibition is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation.

Image by Aksels Bruks.

Photos by Līva Priedīte