Gints Gabrāns
Art is a mutation that creates changes in culture
Since the first exhibitions in the 1990s, Gints Gabrāns has “violated” conventions and created works (installations, performative work, communication-based work, light sculptures, etc) that provoke the viewer to critically evaluate notions of order (Art Is Not for Eating (1994), The Knife With Which to Cut Your Ass (1995), Biosport (1996), Riga dating office (2000), Starix (2001), if point out on some. Paradoxically, he has been able to design these moves in an aesthetically appealing way, revealing his classical competence - the ability to love beauty in contemporary situation. For example, his Beauty Mirrors (2007), that brought about properties of reflected and radiated light that affect the skin in the so-called “therapeutic window”, regenerates cells of the facial skin, making one more beautiful.
Gints Gabrāns (1970) created the augmented reality application SAN in 2015, using virtual 3D models and GPS addresses as art material. The SAN application is based on a new unique solution that allows to create GPS-based large-scale virtual structures that appear on smart devices as augmented reality 3D objects. They can be seen from different points of view, and you can move through them. Virtual objects have an independent GPS location in the room without optical markers or planes, as in other augmented reality applications. www.gabrans.com
