Guntars Sietins Art
Latvian, b. 1962
Sietiņš was born on October 23, 1962 in Kuldiga, Latvia. Since 1986 Sietiņš has kept up a full schedule of exhibitions in Europe, where his prints often win prizes. Sietins is also professor of Graphic Art at the Latvian Academy of Art, where he is currently department head. His prints are in numerous museums in Europe.
Guntars Sietiņš is one of the finest graphic artists of his generation. Using the difficult medium of mezzotint, he combines hyper-realism and surrealism to create a very distinct aesthetic. Sietiņš transforms reality into a world of surreal objects that exist outside normal confines of time and gravity.
Recent awards include:
2017 - International Mezzotint Festival Prize
2009 - International Print Triennial, Poland
2009 - 15th Space International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea
2008 - 1st Printmaking Triennial, Thesaloniki, Greece
2007 - Aomori Print Triennial, Aomori, Japanto
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Characters - Levitation I
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Elements in his prints seem to defy gravity. Si...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Characters XVIII ∞-C, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The numbers reflect up into the ball, along wit...
Category
2010s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Origami, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. This is one of the smallest prints done by Siet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Origami, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. This is one of the smallest prints done by Siet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Characters XVIII ∞-C, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The numbers reflect up into the ball, along wit...
Category
2010s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Characters XIX ⌘-A, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotint with aquatint
Image Size: 8.6 x 10.25 inches
Edition of 35
Year: 2016
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Characters III - Light, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered. The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Reflection of real world ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Kastani IV (Chestnuts) by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. His surreal constructions of Kastani (chestnut...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Characters IX / ∞
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Elements in his prints seem to defy gravity. Si...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Characters XX ∞-B
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The numbers reflect up into the ball, along wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Levitation XVII - Infinity
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Elements in his prints seem to defy gravity. Si...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Characters - Levitation I
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Elements in his prints seem to defy gravity. Si...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Kastani VII (Chestnuts)
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The hyper realistic detail of each chestnut in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Black Circle III, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotint and aquatint
Year: 2014
Edition: 30, signed in pencil.
Image Size: 12 x 15.75 inches
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
The illusions and reflections in Si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Characters VIII / Eclipse
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The letters on the background reflect up into t...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Black and Red
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. This print is from a recent series that explore...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Rakstzimes (Characters) XVII / ∞-B, mezzotint by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotint with aquatint
Year: 2015
Edition: 35 copies, signed in pencil.
Image Size: 10.25 x 8.66 inches
The surreal illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Chestnuts V
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. His surreal constructions of Kastani (chestnut...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Characters X / Color Wheel
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Reflection of real world on a metallic sphere ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Black Circle 4, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 20. Completed to accompany the exhibition of his work 'Squaring the Circle', at the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga in 2017.
The illusi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Levitation XVIII
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 15.
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Photogravure
Chestnuts IV
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. His surreal constructions of Kastani (chestnut...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Inertia II, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. This print is a slight departure from other ser...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Lidzsvars III (Balance III)
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Surrealistic image of a snake balancing a reflective sphere. Signed and numbered from the edition of 55. This is an older print, and one of Sietins larger images.
The illusions and ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Photogravure
Characters V - Light
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The reflection of reality on a metallic sphere is one of Sietins' most frequently used motifs. He is fascinated by the possibility of opening an extra dimension in the dialogue ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Characters XV / Black and White Wheel
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 25. The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Kastani III (Chestnuts)
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Surreal composition of Kastani (chestnuts) with a floating tree limb suspended above. Chestnuts are a comman subject for Sietins, and the level of detail he creates in his mezzotints...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Characters XX ⌘-B, by Guntars Sietins
By Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotint with aquatint
Image Size: 8.6 x 10.25 inches
Edition of 35
Year: 2016
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Guntars Sietins Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
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