Art Rezidence Gallery "Inner light" - theatre of luminous paintings by Vitaly Ermolaev is is a unique tourist object in Jurmala. This is one of the most interesting and memorable sights of this city. It is located in the artist's own house in Jurmala.
Vitaly Ermolaev is a native of Kazan. He studied at the Kazan Art School. In 1973 he graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad, and in 1983 took a design course at the Latvian Academy of Arts. In 1973, Ermolaev arrived in Riga. Here he began to live and work. He moved to Jurmala in 2004. Currently he continues to work as an artist, designer and architect.
The composition of colours and the order of their preparation, invented by Vitaly Ermolaev, is patented.
From 1998 to 2004, a permanent exhibition of light paintings by Vitaly Ermolaev was exhibited in Riga at Rezidence RP. For the first time his paintings, made in the unique “Inner light” style, were presented to the public in 2000 at the Radisson SAS Daugava-Templis art gallery. In 2002 light painting was seen by visitors in Moscow, and a year later the unique paintings were exhibited in Paris and in Riga (in the House of Chernogolovs). In 2004 the inhabitants of Germany were able to enjoy the artist's work. The exhibition was organised in the castle "Schloss Horst". In 2005-2006 in the City Museum in Jurmala and in the House of Art Workers in Riga. House of Art Workers in Riga, visitors saw the luminous paintings.
Vitaly Ermolaevs has organised 23 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 40 exhibitions in Latvia and abroad.
A distinctive feature of Vitaly Ermolaev's work is a unique technique. The artist called it light painting "Inner light". His art is devoted to the themes of "Earth", "Space", "Soul". They seem to take visitors to the stars, helping them to unlock the secrets of their own heart and soul without leaving our wonderful planet Earth.
In the special lighting, the effect is three-dimensional and it seems that from under the of the overhead image, a hitherto invisible picture begins to appear. In his In his work, the artist successfully combines reflective colours and the ancient wax painting technology, which is over 2000 years old.
Yermolaev's paintings appear before visitors in 2 variants: "day" and "night". Sometimes they are very similar, and sometimes they are very different from each other. It depends on the artist's idea. The transformation of the “day” option into the “night” option can be gradual. Some images disappear and others appear. Vitaly Ermolaev's work is filled with romantic mood. In his works he, as if, conducts a thread from consciousness to subconsciousness. Paintings of the artist are based on the idea that there is a vital, boundless force as energy, present in every facet of life. It's this energy that the paintings possess, that give off a special light.
