The Bright Sky is an exhibition containing a new sort of paintings - Photonpainting.

Photon*painting - term by which Latvian artist Gints Gabrans describes how he makes his art is similar to painting where images are created by breaking a laser beam inside a drop of water. The beam is reflected through the drop in the surrounding space taking a huge leap of scale, while at the same time the reflected white light of a RGB laser beam disperses into all colours of the spectrum. The resulting projection is then fixed on a light sensitive surface - photopaper. After processing the paper with photochemistry a unique laser made photonpainting is created. It is one of its kind and has its surface informatively packed with traces left by photon (light quanta).

Each projection captures an amplification of the microscopic processes of light's electromagnetic wave interference allowing us to look into the mysterious nature of light waves. Visually it resembles a network of unknown worlds by showing the "dark", invisible side of the light.

At first the perceived image resembles abstract art but there is nothing abstract about it. The image is created from a very small point of light which has been increased to a scale where our eyes are able to view the insight of the light - the light itself. These are the landscapes of another world, which on a daily basis is hidden from our sight. In a words of artist "I call it an extended realism."

Gints Gabrāns (born1978) is a well-known contemporary Latvian artist. He mainly works with installations and new media art. His work has been widely exhibited in East and West Europe as well as in Australia and America. He won many awards and has represented Latvia at the Venice Biennale and San Paulo Bienniale to name a few. In his work Gabrans explores unsteady borderline between the artificial (‘art') construction and reality itself.

* photon is an elementary particle, a quantum of electromagnetic field, as well as the fundamental unit of light and all the other kinds of electromagnetic radiation. It is the carrier of electromagnetic force. Photons display the qualities of wave-particle duality, namely, photons are characterized both by wave and particle qualities. For example, one photon may be able to break the light in a lens but it might as well demonstrate wave interference, it also shows the nature of its particles, which produces certain result, when determining its locus. (Fragment from Wikipedia).