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Animation, 2012
According to the principle that happiness belongs to them who don’t realise they could be even happier, new commitments, works and thirst for more information are subjected to the questioning of their necessity. May be sometimes it is better not to see, not to hear, not to taste and not to know, in order not to raise requirements against the existing reality, because unhappiness resides in the distance between the expectations and this reality.
Downshifting? The idea of reducing workload to spend the earned income just for what is necessary is tempting. But working in a collective often complicates this goal.
Artist's Bio:
Mārtiņš Zutis is studying in the Masters programme in the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. His illustrations, comics and animation stay in mind because of their unusual characters and unexpected flashes of imagination, wherein word games and exact patterns are turned into visual language. The works of Mārtiņš Zutis are regularly published in the magazine of comic culture kuš!, and his works were shown in the group exhibitions “Laika nav” (There is No Time, Department of Visual Communication, 2011), “Eksplozīcija” (Explosion, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2010) and “Stādions” (Art Academy of Latvia, 2008), and elsewhere. (Z.Z.)