The exhibition hall “D.FAB” (the name is an abbreviation of Design Factoru “Dizaina Fabrika”) is situated in Riga, at 52 Slokas Street and over the course of four years of operations, the Design Factory has grown to be a home for artists’ exhibitions, the cultural centre of art enthusiasts, and a peculiar image-maker of the West bank of River Daugava, leaving impression not only on the local exhibition visitors, but also on the guests of Riga

Exhibition hall is suitable for presentation events, advertisement filming, private and corporative banquets and parties. For further information about D.FAB call + 37127545779 or write to us info@dfab.lv

We Have Band started as a musical ménage à trois. This buzziest of the new British hype groups began when husband and wife Thomas and Dede WP [Wegg-Prosser] invited a fellow desk-jobber from EMI Records, Darren Bancroft, over for dinner. After a little tipple, the trio found themselves writing a song over a fuzzed-out old drum machine, and We Have Band was born. Initially, Dede thought of the group as a marital aid. “Thomas was making music, but he was uninspired,” she explains. “Like a good wife, I said, ‘Let’s do it together.’ ” “I was fascinated,” Bancroft confesses. “A married couple making music together instead of just sitting in front of the TV is quite strange!”

On their debut album, WHB (Naive Recordings), all three bandmates alternate vocals and instruments, creating an uproarious disco-synth hootenanny. The shiny, homemade grooves belie the songs’ poignant narratives. “It’s the geeks’ revenge,” Bancroft notes. “We’ll do something weird and then trick you into dancing to it.” Indeed, their dance card has been full since WHB made their live debut in 2008 at the tastemaker showcase Club Motherfucker in London. At the time, however, they weren’t entirely sure they had band at all. “It was the first time Dede had ever stepped onstage,” Bancroft says. “We had a contingency plan if she couldn’t go on,” Thomas continues. “If I’d known that night that by now we’d have gone to Russia twice, toured France, Germany and America, I would’ve been terrified too!”

Live: www.grandcrew.com/en/videos/we-have-band-concert-festival-generiq-la-vapeur-dijon

Videos to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8isDJtv1w

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQUC5WbCSrg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGJ1lD23-U

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September will surprise us with an extraordinary and splendid event in the world of art photography. It will be the first solo exhibition of the young artist Linda Kletniece “PhotoHaiku” that will give the opportunity to enjoy the poetic haiku message in the exhibition hall “D-Fab”.

Linda Kletniece’s debut in photography took place in August 2008 in St. Peter’s Church in Riga during the exhibition of 10 Latvian photographers “100”. There she convincingly participated together with most outstanding Latvian masters of photography – Gunars Binde, Leonid Tugalev, Vilhelm Mikhailovsky, Ulvis Alberts and others. This success enabled the artist to overcome the gravity of amateurism and to rise in a new orbit of artistry. It could have been perceived as a huge confidence in advance that Linda Kletniece is trying to justify in her first solo exhibition.

In the exhibition she continues to develop the already created aesthetic positions in the spirit of minimalistic and abstracted generalization. Realistic concreteness gains exquisite, concise and compositionally subtle expression that never immerses into literar loquacity. The photo language in her works is really close to poetic language. The mediative message of texture, shape and colour indicates the presence of sensual spirituality, which is closely associated with Japanese haiku culture.

Linda Kletniece’s works express refined artistic taste based on talent. She gained her art education in Cesis Art School, Valmiera School of Applied Arts and in Santa Monica College in California, (USA), where she studied figurative painting. Linda has also gained higher education in business management and administration and successfully applies her knowledge in advertising business.

Wish to perform in art photography comes from her family, because Linda’s great-grandfather Roberts Gerins owned a photo salon in Gostini. Charm of photography archive and the fascinating aura of the profession evoke Linda’s interest about photography that gradually developed into a creative passion.

”PhotoHaiku” is like a visit to a stone garden in a Buddhist monastery, where everyone can indulge in the spirit of meditation in zen traditions. In a slow meditation, in the sounds of wind rustling and grasshopper chirping…..

The exhibition is on view from September 17 to October 1, exhibition hall “D-Fab”, Riga,

Str. Slokas 52d, every day 12:00 – 20:00.

Janis Borgs
Art critic