Rinalds Vanadzins

Rinalds (1986) has covered several art trends based on the freedom-postulating hip-hop culture - covering both the rap scene as an artist with the pseudonym RINIS ONE (the album “Uzzini Vairāk” released in 2009) and street art as well as graffiti art with the pseudonym HAWK. In recent years, he has...

Rinalds (1986) has covered several art trends based on the freedom-postulating hip-hop culture - covering both the rap scene as an artist with the pseudonym RINIS ONE (the album “Uzzini Vairāk” released in 2009) and street art as well as graffiti art with the pseudonym HAWK. In recent years, he has been actively focusing on painting, developing extraordinary techniques in which he expresses his deepest reflections on feelings. Being surprisingly talented, Rinalds is a creator and walker of his own path outside of the usual conventions and has always been fascinated by active and extreme lifestyles. His sources of inspiration can be found both in the dynamic urban space and in the peacefulness of nature.

Rinalds grew up in a district of Riga among the insignificant and grey block buildings of the Soviet era, wherein in the mid-1980s the first wall art and graffiti developed in Latvia. When he was a kid, they served as a strong source of inspiration for his first attempts to realize himself in environmental art, making the grey surroundings a little more colorful and interesting. It is important for him as an artist and messenger to convey street and graffiti art as an aesthetic form of art, not an environmentally degrading manifestation of vandalism.

For more than 10 years, Rinalds has developed a unique artistic direction based on the use of acrylic paint, as it is suitable for mixed techniques. Each work is uniquely handmade without the use of stencils. The artist draws inspiration for his art in travels and unprecedented urban environments, as well as in many other impressions that resonate in his subconscious. For him working with colors is a meditative process and it’s a journey to which he fully surrenders, often disabling the rational mind. Every work of art has a deep inner message that has emerged as a result of the search for creative freedom.