Personal exhibition of the artist Lina Nikolaeva “From the Void”
March 12 6 p.m. On the 2nd floor of the Kaunas Cultural Center, the personal exhibition of the works of the artist Lina Nikolaevė “From Void” will be held. “Emptiness is the space from which everything originates – ideas, thoughts, worlds, living creatures. That’s how my works come about. They come to me like thoughts. Lots of them! I manage to capture some on canvas. Here you see the ones that succeeded.” – the artist tells the story of the creation of the continuous cycle “From Void”. Lina Nikolaevė lives and works in Kaunas, Lithuania. The cycle “Iš tuštumos”, which was started 11 years ago, proved once again that the author has a volatile artistic imagination. At the exhibition, the artist presents abstract works of art, the influence of Eastern philosophy, Hinduism, and Buddhism can be felt in most of the works. Some of the abstract works were created using graphic techniques. The world of art has been close to the creator since childhood. As long as the author remembers herself: she painted, sculpted, embroidered, crocheted. Already 25 years old, Lina, who graduated from physiotherapy studies, has been working with physical training techniques. The author delves into Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, studies psychology, painting, natural agriculture, realized her old dream – learned to sew professionally. The author also works in the field of sculpture. The artist actively participates in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. The creator’s biography includes exhibitions in Spain, India, Turkey, Lithuania, as well as an upcoming international collective art exhibition in Italy.
Exhibition curator Gabriele Kuizinaitė Organizers of the exhibition: VšĮ Gabrielės meno galerija and Kaunas culture center
Personal exhibition of painter Anna Oleinik “From dreams”
From March 1 In Business Park AUŠRA (Vytautas pr. 23) the personal exhibition of paintings by the painter Anna Oleinik “From dreams” will be held. Painter Anna Oleinik lives and works in Vilnius. The creative path of the artist began in her childhood. Her progress as an artist is huge at the moment and it is reflected in her creative work. The artist is a graduate of art, visual design and media studies, which helped Anna not only improve her artistic knowledge, but also allowed her to go on a spirited journey where she found a niche and gained experience. Her creative path is diverse: creating animated characters and video clips in the Lithuanian film studio, later in her own studio. The author of the exhibition participates in various artistic, social and innovative projects, one of them: “Interactive 3D mopping show on the water screen”. Several projects were realized during the city celebrations “Klaipėdos jūra”-2015. The artist realized artistic ideas and realized them in various events and projects and participated in one of the most important projects “FASHION ALCHEMIJA” with fashion designer and historian Aleksandar Vasiljev. Currently, the author’s main field of creativity is abstract painting. Currently, the artist presents abstract ideas on canvas by implementing them with acrylic paints. It opens up new horizons for the viewer. This painting opens unseen horizons for the artist to the viewer. Her works invite a dialogue with existence and the world, which is achieved through the infinite variety of colors that are reflected in the prism of our subconscious. In the work of Anna Oleinik, the vibrations of the artist’s own creative energy and ideas are important, which undoubtedly still have many undisclosed possibilities and secrets. The artist currently cooperates with the Public Enterprise “Gabrielės Meno Galerija” and participates in international projects in Japan and Italy. The exhibition will be open until June 1.
Exhibition curator Gabriele Kuizinaitė Organizers of the exhibition: VŠĮ “Gabrielės meno galerija” and Business park AUŠRA.
International group exhibition of artists “Veprių landscapes” at Ukmergė museum of local Lore
On October 1. The Ukmergė Museum of Local Lore will host an international group exhibition of artists “Veprių landscapes”. Artists from Lithuania, Ukraine and Latvia exhibit their works in the exhibition. The organizer of the plein air and the exhibition is painter Zita Tarasevičienė, curator art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė. The following present their works in the exhibition: Zita Tarasevičienė (painting), Gabrielė Kuizinaitė (photography), Nelė Jurgelionienė (painting), Marijus Petrauskas (painting), Maryna Chopey (painting), Utah Malah Migunova (painting), Natalija Mitjanova (painting), Marija Rastenienė (watercolor), Ina Loreta Savickienė (oriental painting), Daiva Nevardauskienė (painting), Audronė Dambrauskienė-Šiurkienė (watercolor), Mantas Maziliauskas (contemporary painting). Although the exhibition is dominated by the landscape genre, but it is distinguished by a variety of themes and styles. Artists in their works seek to make sense of the impressions they have experienced during the week of living living in the homestead “Crane Meadow” located in Vepriai, visiting the surrounding area. Although the exhibition is dominated by landscapes, the participants of the plein air also captured the buildings of the surrounding area, water bodies, all that excited and encouraged them to create emotionally. Stylized motifs of plants, cranes often switched to abstract expression. The authors of the exhibition show works of various formats, the exhibition is marked by a large coloristic variety: no gray to bright colors and shades. Plein air’s works are still filled with summer moods and their expression. The exhibition will run until October 31.
Organizers of the exhibition: Ukmergė Museum of Local Lore, VšĮ “Gabrielė Art Gallery”, partner – homestead “Crane Meadow”.
Curator of the exhibition Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Exhibition of the painter Sigitas Petrauskas “Metamorphoses”
From October 27th, an exhibition of personal paintings by the painter Sigitas Petrauskas “Metamorphoses” will be held at the Jurbarkas Regional Museum, exhibition and concert hall (Vydūno g. 21). In the exhibition, the author presents twenty works of various formats. The author lives and creates in Kaunas, participates in group exhibitions. Sigitas Petrauskas discovered the painting a few years ago. It took time for the author to find his own theme and stylistics. He was born by creating works of an abstract nature, minimizing and symbolizing the object being created, refining the most important idea and philosophical content of her works. Raising existential questions, the author purifies the object as a symbol, it can be a plant motif, an urban detail, a portrait. His transformed imagery accommodates in himself a universalized consideration of being, destiny, the place of man in the world. In summary, the idea is also described by the names of the works exhibited in the exhibition: “Above the roofs”, “In the gaze”, “Sharm”, “, “Midnight Sun” and others.
The painter’s work is distinguished by prominent, embossed, roughened, multi-layered surfaces. Sigitas Petrauskas uses an exclusive technique that resembles the principle of collage and is created with acrylic paints. This technology provides staticity, but at the same time aspects of the mysticality and unreality of space and the world being created.
The exhibition will run until November 30. Organizers of the exhibition: Jurbarkas Region Museum and Public Institution “GabrielėGallery” .
The exhibition will run from 2020-10-27 to 2020-11-30.
Exhibition of the painter Zita Tarasevicienė “Staying in Spring”
Since March 8th, AUŠRA (Vytauto pr. 23) has been hosting a personal exhibition of works by the painter Zita Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė “Staying in Spring” in Business Park AUŠRA (Vytauto pr. 23). In recent years, the painter is actively involved in exhibition life. She has organized solo exhibitions in Lithuania, Latvia, Greece, Iran, Canada, as well as participated in exhibitions presenting Lithuanian art in Germany and Italy.
In the exhibition “Staying in spring”, the artist presents two new series of paintings, which combine pastel and blue and red motifs. Painters are characterized by a loose, expressive style of painting and spring contrasting color combinations. The author’s favorite natural motifs, fragments of the landscape are abstracted in order to express mood and emotion. In the next cycle, a fragment of architecture is moved away from nature, brightened, but in the general composition of the painting work it becomes a motif of a threat, an apocalypse. In yet another work, the one above the depicted environment gains
It is like a signal of the volatility, uncertainty of today’s life, warning that everything that happens around us, in the world, is unpredictable, contradictory, but also hopeful.
Zita Tarasavičienė’s recent works, which are elsponient in the exhibition, are distinguished not only by contrasts, contradictions and diversity, but some of the works exhibited in the exhibition testify to a shift towards a new style, which is distinguished by subtlety, deliberately highlighted by an expressive line, color combinations and contradictions that testify to emotional experiences.
Presenting her latest works, the author says: “The Exhibition Staying In the Spring ya is tied to today, a difficult stage in our lives, marked by a pandemic that paralyzed communication between all of us, limited people’s meetings. But the spring is dawning, the awakening nature is reborn to the joy of all of us. The exhibition reveals the communion of human nature and nature, the communication of people. In portraying their inseparable connection in my works, I argue that life is wonderful.”
Exhibition organizers: Verslo Parkas AUŠRA and public institution “Gabrielegallery”.
Curator of the exhibition Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Exhibition of photographs of Robert Misiukonis’ nudes
July 10 6 p.m. Remis Tattoo gallery (Daukšos str. 16) will host a personal exhibition of deeds “SapnoVizija” Krist Gi Naktin… ”opening. R. Misiukonis lives and works in Kaunas. He develops in the fields of analog, digital and nude photography. Since 1981 he is a member of the Lithuanian Photographic Artists’ Union. 1984 he graduated from the KPI Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1976. founded KPI-FOTO club, since 1986. was the leader of this club. 1991-2014 was the head of KTU-FOTO studio. Since 2013 works as a teacher of photography at Kaunas School of Applied Arts and is the curator and founder of the creative workshop Beyond the Frames.
Robertas Misiukonis has organized several exhibitions of photographic acts: “As a living space”, “For her or the whirlpool of life”, “Nostalgia as an amazing thread”. This exhibition, consisting of several cycles, is associated with different periods of the author’s life and the people he met.
The exhibition is extremely theatrical, highlighting the beauty of a woman’s body, symbolizing and mystifying it. It’s a kind of studio study of a woman’s body, many of whose photographs highlight an erotic motif. The exhibition features erotic motifs, important harmony of movement, change of light and shadows, subtle white expression of black photography. By framing the details of a woman’s body, hiding the most intimate parts of the body, the author creates a photographic story about the secret of femininity, the harmony of corporeality and spirituality. The author of the exhibition plays with details, light effects, creates intrigue for his viewer, giving him the opportunity to interpret.
Organizers of the exhibition: Remis Tattoo gallery and GabrielėGallery.
The exhibition of personal paintings by Aistė Jurgilaitė “Color spaces”
Aug. 19 this year at 6 p.m. The Thunder House-Museum (Aleksoto g. 6) will host the opening of the exhibition “Color Spaces” of the artist AistėJurgilaitė’s personal works. The author lives and works in Trakai and Vilnius. She has completed a master’s degree at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 2000, she has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union, and in 2005 she was awarded the status of Art Creator. The painter creates paintings and computer graphics. Since 1998 she has been participating in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. A. Jurgilaitė has organized solo exhibitions in Lithuanian exhibition spaces, Italy, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, France, USA. The exhibition “Color Spaces” exhibits works created in recent years. In painting works, color nuance, expression, abstraction are important, but also the importance of mood, emotion, impression, moment. The author’s painting narrative combines an abstract color element with a specific fragment of the human figure, architecture and nature. All this forms a seamless strain, a connection, when unexpected light at work illuminates, highlights the detail that speaks universalized language, testifies to existential fullness, sometimes anxiety, and takes to the reflection of the inner world. The viewer of the exhibition has a choice: a free interpretation of the works is the key to the color sense of the work.The opening of the plein air exhibition “Kaunas in Painting, Painting in Kaunas”
will take place on July 8 at 5 pm. The plein air on the topic of Kaunas city is organized for the second time. 2019 the plein air was dedicated to the year of the Provisional Capital, focusing on modernist architecture, this year on the theme of the city’s courtyards. Professional artists and members of Kaunas Culture Center Art Studio “Rainbow” participate in the plein air: Gintautas Vaičys – artistic director, Gitas Markutis, Sigitas Petrauskas, Daiva Kupstienė, Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė, Vilius Ksaveras Slavinskas, Rūta Barniškytė-Klusienė, Vida Natalija Karpinskienė, Gražina Ašmienė, Teresė Draugelienė, Eleonora Čepulienė, Virginija Jaskytė-Rūkienė, Jelena Tamilina, Nijolė Brencienė, Juozas Ivanauskas and Raimundas Majauskas.Last year, the participants of the plein air were invited to present images of the temporary capital in paintings. This year, they are invited to explore Kaunas courtyards and present their own reflection, they are invited to find their own relationship with a specific space, perhaps an event, a person related to the place. An exhibition of works created during the plein air is planned to be held at the Kaunas Culture Center in July. Organizers of the plein air: Kaunas Culture Center and GabrielėGallery.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Personal exhibition of paintings by painter Jolita Lubienė
From July 4, a personal exhibition of paintings by the painter Jolita Lubienė will take place in the Jurbarkas Regional Museum, exhibition and concert hall. The painter was born and raised in Panevėžys, currently lives and works in Kaunas district. Since 2014, he has been participating in exhibitions and plein airs, as well as organizing personal exhibitions. Jolita Lubienė has been interested in art since childhood. However, she started participating in exhibitions intensively just a few years ago. For some time now, the artist has been deepening her knowledge in the studio of the famous painter Antanas Obcarskas. With her works, he often participates in the annual student exhibitions organized by this painter’s studio. In the exhibition, the author presents 25 pieces of paintings of various formats, which are dominated by the theme of the landscape. Although the paintings are dominated by various bright colors, all the paintings are connected by blue color. What is characteristic of the painting of the artist Jolita Lubienė? The paintings are united by the linear dynamic style of painting, the color of blue-green-yellow tones. In the paintings presented in this exhibition, not only color but also mood and emotion are important. Jolita Lubienė creates subtle female paintings that are inspired by natural moods and various contexts. The works speak to their viewers in the language of expressive strokes. In each plane of the picture, color and rhythm are important, presented to the viewer in a unique way. Every painting by a painter is different. The paintings are abstract, with a distinctive plot, creating a dynamic atmosphere. Color compositional nuances are especially important. The paintings are characterized by bright colors and their contrasts. These paintings by the artist are like fragments of different stories. The author’s painting is expressive and compelling. The new cycle of landscapes not only gives her works a more even color nuance, but also directs her to the search for form and improvisation exercises. When creating a landscape, the painter follows the path of summarizing and abstracting the details of nature.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Personal exhibition of paintings by painter Ina Loreta Savickienė
July 1 6 p.m. The opening of the exhibition of personal paintings by painter Ina Loreta Savickienė will take place in the Perkūnas House-Museum (Aleksoto St. 6). Ina Loreta Savickienė graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in psychology. She started attending traditional East Asian painting studies in 2011, in Chinese painting and calligraphy courses organized by the VU Confucius Institute, led by teachers Dalia Dakšaitė and Wang Lei. She later deepened his skills with renowned masters Henri Li, Ning Yen and others. The author has been participating in exhibitions since 2017. The painter Ina Loreta Savickienė became using traditional East Asian tools: ink, brush, rice paper, natural pigments derived from minerals, following the philosophical and aesthetic principles polished over the centuries. The connection with nature is crucial: plants and trees. In her work, the author at the same time seeks intercultural contact and modern meaning of old traditions. Aims for tradition to be a beautiful art. Some of the paintings are inspired by Chinese, Japanese and masterful compositions. It is a search for artistic creation and improvisations. The work has a very strong aesthetic and the influence of Eastern philosophy. The author’s works are dominated by red, blue, orange and green. The author has won awards for her outstanding work. The author has created a distinctive style with expressive and virtuoso graphics of black contours and lines, the laconic presentation of colors is extremely important. Distinguished by various ornaments and motifs on the themes of plants, flowers and trees, the author’s works have connections with the art of painting, graphics and even calligraphy. These are harmonious paintings. The purity and decorativeness of the form are very important in the paintings. The exhibition will run until August 10. Organizers of the exhibition: Perkūnas House-Museum and Public Institution “GabrielėGallery”.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Exhibition of painter by Aušra Bartkutė-Deviatnikova
From June 1. An exhibition of paintings by Aušra Bartkutė-Deviatnikova will be open at Kaunas Culture Center (Vytauto Ave. 79). Although the opening of the exhibition will not take place due to quarantine restrictions, the author promises a surprise to the visitors of the future exhibition, who will have the opportunity to participate in the lottery while visiting the exhibition, and the author promises to donate his painting to one lucky visitor.
Painter Aušra Bartkutė-Deviatnikova lives and works in Ukmergė. In art she has been interested in since she was little. He attended Ukmergė Art School and A. Smetona Gymnasium, where enhanced art was taught. 2005 She obtained a bachelor’s degree in painting at Šiauliai University. graduated with a master’s degree in painting from the same university. Since 2004, Aušra has been participating in group exhibitions, as well as organizing solo exhibitions. The artist has organized exhibitions abroad as well.
In the latest exhibition, the author presents about 15 works. Aušra Bartkutė-Deviatnikova’s abstract painting is dominated by natural motifs, coloristic effects, and a dynamic and expressive narrative that creates mood and emotion. These are works that create images of beauty, present a distinctive vision of the world, a world dominated by light, harmony and beauty. Flashes of light are common in many of the painter’s works, they become the most important motif in frequent work, uniting the harmonies and opposites of pastel colors. The author talks about her work: I never have any preliminary sketches, but I always “carry out” some kind of emotion-based vision, which only takes the color and visual expression when I take the canvas. For me, painting is the most wonderful form of meditation, which revitalizes, gives spiritual peace, and in the end, visually delights not only myself, but also the people to whom my paintings go. ”The author’s creative attitudes only testify to her intuitive relationship with her work. who are emotionally extremely influential and exciting. The exhibition will run until July 4, the organizers of the exhibition: GabrielėGallery and Kaunas Culture Center.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Painter Daiva Kupstienė’s personal painting exhibition “Rain Subtitles”<
The personal exhibition of paintings by the painter Daiva Kupstienė “Rain Subtitles” will take place in the Jurbarkas Region Museum, Exhibition and Concert Hall (Vydūno St. 21) from May 6. This is the fourth personal exhibition of paintings by painter Daiva Kupstienė. In the exhibition, the author presents about twenty-five pieces of various formats, older and newly created paintings. Painter Daiva Kupstienė lives and works in Kaunas. In 1977-1988 he studied at Kaunas 27th Secondary School. 2007-2011 at A. Martinaitis Art School. Currently, he is improving his acquired knowledge in the studio “Antaniniai ob” by the famous painter Antanas Obcarskas. D. Kupstienė is not only a painter, but also an organizer of exhibitions and plein airs in Lithuania, London and Sweden. Painters are a close abstract genre of landscape. Landscape is not just an image for the author, it is a unique and distinctive creative language of each artist, each artist interprets and presents the genre of landscape in a unique style. In the exhibition, the painter presents a different cycle of abstract landscapes. D.Kupstienė is a great colorist who likes a wide range of colors and shades, we will not find real moves or fragments of nature in contrasted landscapes, but the most important feature of her works is the emotional expression of colors and shapes, play and enjoyment of artistic image. D.Kupstienė’s landscapes are dominated by decorative lines, color tones and halftones, a sense of space and subtle expression. The painter’s works engage the viewer in the mysterious, mystical world of images he creates. The author’s works presented in the exhibition are distinguished by the integrity of style, composition and form. And so is the flight that leaves no one indifferent. The exhibition will run until June 20. Organizers of the exhibition: Jurbarkas Regional Museum and GabrielėGallery.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Kaunas City Museum Castle Department for art and history lovers from May 5. A new exhibition “Temporary Capital in Painting” will be opened in 2019. The works of the plein air organized by Kaunas Culture Center and Public Institution “GabrielėGallery”, which reveal the creators’ relationship with the history of Kaunas and today.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė about the works presented in the exhibition:
“The head of the artistic part of the plein air was the painter Gintautas Vaičys. Members of the Kaunas Cultural Center Art Studio Vaivorykštė and artists participating in the activities of the Gabrielė Art Gallery: Gintautas Vaičys, Gitas Markutis, Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė, Daiva Kupstienė, Valentinas Jankauskis, Vūta Barniškis, Rūta Barniškis, participated in the exhibition. Regina Cemnolonskienė, Natalija Karpinskienė, Gražina Ašmienė, Teresė Draugelienė, Eleonora Čepulienė, Virginija Jaskytė-Rūkienė and Juozas Ivanauskas.
During the plein air, the aim was for each creator to present his / her relationship with the history of Kaunas or today, to capture his / her own image of the temporary capital through different points of view.
The main theme of the exhibition is the reflection of Kaunas historical and cultural context. Artists were encouraged to search for and make meaningful reflections of Kaunas ‘historical memory, Kaunas’ self-awareness as a temporary capital and its signs. The works created during the plein air stand out for their abundance of both thematic and stylistic diversity. A modern look at the history of Kaunas, the phenomenon of architecture and the spirit of the city encouraged artists to create new artistic interpretations and creative images. The exhibition intertwines traditional and abstract painting trends.
Many of the authors of the plein air focused on the artistic meaning of Kaunas landscape, architecture or their fragments, others chose abstract expression. The works of all the authors participating in the plein air are unique and exclusive. The painters chose various stylists and techniques, and most importantly – each expressed their individual relationship with Kaunas, looked for non-traditional means of expression or characteristic signs of the temporary capital and made them meaningful in their works. ”
The exhibition will take place in the Castle Department of Kaunas City Museum (Pilies St. 17) from May 5 to 30.
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In March 10 6 p.m. Remis Tattoo gallery (M.Daukšos str. 16) will host the opening of the painter Sigitas Petrauskas’ first exhibition of personal paintings “Metamorphoses”. In the exhibition, the author presents twenty works of various formats. The author lives and works in Kaunas, participates in group exhibitions. The painting was discovered by Sigitas Petrauskas a few years ago. It took time for the author to find his own theme and style. She was born by creating works of an abstract nature, minimizing and symbolizing the object being created, refining the most important idea and philosophical content of her works. By raising existential questions, the author purifies the object as a symbol, it can be a plant motif, an urban detail, a portrait. His transformed image contains a universalized reflection on being, destiny, man’s place in the world. In general, the title of the works exhibited in the exhibition defines the idea: “Above the Roofs”, “At a Glance”, “Sharma”, “Flowers of Fate”, “Midnight Sun” and others.
The painter’s work is distinguished by prominent, embossed, rough, multi-layered surfaces. Sigitas Petrauskas uses an exceptional technique that resembles the principle of collage and is created with acrylic paints. This technology provides aspects of static, but at the same time space, mysticism and unreality of the world being created.
The exhibition will run until April 15. Organizers of the exhibition: Remis Tattoo gallery and GabrielėGallery.
Exhibition curator Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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From March 3, the personal exhibition of paintings by the painter Janina Audra Toleikytė-Fiserienė “Painting is to Live” has been open at the Perkūnas House-Museum (Aleksoto St. 6). The artist was born in 1963, lives and works in Kaunas. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Union of Folk Artists, cooperating with the Public Institution GabrielėGallery. Participates in the exhibition and plein airs organized by the famous artist Gintaras Zubrys. Since 2018, the author has been organizing personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, participating in group exhibitions. Since 2019, the artist has been participating in an international project under the Creative Europe of Borders Art program. Recently, the painter is known as the author of large-format walls. She is an active member of the Šančiai community. On the concrete in this area is captured fragments of the history and everyday life of Šančiai.
In the solo exhibition “Painting is Live”, the author of the exhibition presents about 30 medium-format paintings created in different periods. The main genre of the painter is landscape, the author has precisely perfected this genre. By capturing natural motifs, it is consistent and creates a compositional whole, highlights the detail of the landscape, and pays a lot of attention to coloristics. The works of the painter Janina Audra Toleikytė-Fiserienė are engaging the viewer with their charismaticism, mystical mystery and harmonious whole. The author does not avoid bright colors, in her works the change of light creates an enchanting and playful mood. It is important for the author to capture the forest, lake and sea area illuminated by morning light or sunset. Quite photorealistic, but at the same time symbolized images of nature take the viewer to another reality, which is created by stopping time, giving meaning to the beauty of nature, creating an inseparable connection between nature and man. The painter’s works fascinate with her precision, manner of performance and idyllic romanticization of the untouched natural landscape, invite the viewer to look back and look again and see the beauty of the forest, sea, landscape, to feel the fullness of nature.
The exhibition will run until April 4, the organizers of the exhibition: Perkūnas House-Museum and Gabrielė Gallery.
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Personal photography exhibition “2XItaly” by photographer Eglė Ščerbinskaitė
From February 20, the personal photography exhibition “2XItaly” by photographer Eglė Ščerbinskaitė will take place in the Jurbarkas Regional Museum, Exhibition and Concert Hall (Vydūno St. 21). In the exhibition, photographer Eglė Ščerbinskaitė presents about 20 large-format photographs. Photographs printed on plexiglass. A frequent series of photographs by this author is staged. The author creates a script for the stories, then a scenography for that story, in which she places the characters. All this is captured in one series or another. The exhibition has already been presented in Kaunas once, in Jurbarkas for the second time. The series of photographs presented in the exhibition is created in Italy, so the landscapes of this country are natural motifs. And mainly the participant of the photographic scene is a woman who emphasizes the mood, emotion, harmonious inner and outer beauty of the above-mentioned national contexts and backgrounds. The author of the exhibition helps to highlight the aestheticized world of a woman in an unconventional costume, make-up, dance element. It is a theatrical story about a woman who stands out for her dynamics, vitality, aesthetics. According to art curator Eglė Könyvuskaitė-Liakienė, E. Ščerbinskaitė practices the rare art of directorial photography, thus standing out from other Lithuanian photographers and elevating the genre of directional photography to a higher level. ”The first portraits were attempts to introduce personal, stylistically transforming kt. Later, the artist realized that she did not have to run away from herself, but on the contrary, towards self-knowledge, she had to trust her own thoughts and experiences. So he photographed from the comfort zone in harsh conditions, during storms, rain, snow. When it’s hard, you’re sure because there’s no time and effort to pretend and disguise yourself. This path to self-knowledge has evolved into the creation of a social image through personal experience. ”
The author of the photographs raises the question of when people are real and when they imagine they want to be. And what is more important to be or look like? Analyzes how the image of clothing, style influences and reflects human behavior, well-being, even political views. The artist often experiments in journeys where portrait fossils evolved into performances when many curious people gathered to observe the incomprehensible behavior of the photographer (the camera was standing on a tripod, photographed herself at a distance with the remote control), the frequent spectator did not even notice the camera.
The exhibition “2XItaly” is best described by the author herself “Welcome to the performance of my life.
The sun is my spotlight, passers-by are my spectators. The precise performance of my role confuses the viewer, watching my every movement with blinded eyes. No, I’m not crazy, I’m not trying to inject you, in fact, you don’t even care about me. My theater doesn’t need spectators. I’m an actress, I play my life, I’m a reflection in the mirror, in the water, in the shadow on the wall, I’m me. Cut out what others think about it, because you didn’t buy a ticket to my performance, you are not worth watching, condemning, praising, admiring it. Unless I invite you, I will organize another performance “2XItaly”. The exhibition will run until March 20. Organizers of the exhibition: Jurbarkas Regional Museum and GabrielėGallery.
Information for the press was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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An exhibition of paintings by the painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė will open at Kaunas Culture Center (Vytauto Ave. 79) on February 3, and the author will show the works of the cycle “Ode to fall”. The meeting with the author will take place at the exhibition on February 18. (Tuesday) 5 p.m.
Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė lives and works in Kaunas. In recent years, the author has been actively involved in artistic life. Last year, the artist was granted the status of Artist. The author has already organized her personal exhibitions in Lithuania, Latvia and Ireland. She participated in group exhibitions presenting Lithuanian art in Germany and Italy. The painter collaborates with the Public Institution “Gabriele Gallery in Lithuania and Bougie Art Gallery in Canada.
The latest exhibition “Ode to fall” is associated with the time of the autumn season, so the exhibition is dominated by the play of autumn colors and natural motifs. Each work expressively creates a small miniature of autumn motifs, colors, and emotions. The composition of the frequent work is united not only by color harmonies or contrasts, which create a reflection of uncertainty, melancholy, but also by an expressive narrative about the state, the mood, which in this exhibition is extremely transparent and timeless. The painter’s paintings stand out for their mysticism, mystery, subtexts, dialogue with the tradition of abstract art. The connection with nature and dialogue with nature are very important in the author’s work.
Speaking about autumn, the painter says: “Autumn. Wonderful time of year. Nature transmits a lot to us. Recalling what a wonderful and meanwhile fragile human life it is. That’s why there are so many colors and proof that life is wonderful. ” The painter expresses these attitudes in her works. The cycle of paintings “Ode to fall” is extremely dynamic, marked by emotion and ease of painting, playfulness, and infinitely different colors. In the works exhibited in the exhibition, the author proves her ability to infuse figurative elements and natural motifs into abstract stylistics. The exhibition is engaging, elegant in its entirety.
The organizers of the exhibition are Kaunas Culture Center and Gabrielė Art Gallery. The exhibition will run until March 3.
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In January 20 th on 3 p.m. The opening of the exhibition “Painting is Living” by the painter Janina Audra Toleikytė-Fiserienė will take place at the Jurbarkas Regional Museum (Vydūno 21). The author lives and works in Kaunas. She is a member of the Union of Folk Artists, she participates in group exhibitions and plein airs organized by the painter Gintaras Zubrys. In recent years, she has also organized personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. Since 2019, the artist has been participating in an international project under the program “Creative Europe, Art of Borders”. Recently, the painter is known as the author of large-format works on the wall. She is an active member of the Šančiai community and has captured fragments of the Šančiai history and everyday life on the concrete walls in the area.
In the solo exhibition, the author presents her works created in different periods. The main genre of the painter is landscape, the author has precisely perfected this genre. By capturing natural motifs, she consistently creates a compositional whole, highlights the details of the landscape, and pays special attention to coloristics. The works of J. A. Toleikytė-Fiserienė are engaging the viewer with their charismaticism, mystical mystery and harmonious whole. The author does not avoid bright colors, her works combine symbolic signs, images, constantly accentuated light, the important accent is the sun’s rays, the glow of dawn or rainbow, constant darkness and the change of light, which creates an enchanting and playful mood. It is very important for the author to capture the forest, lake and sea area illuminated by morning light or sunset. Quite photorealistic, but at the same time symbolized images of nature take the viewer to another reality, which is created by stopping time, giving meaning to the beauty of nature, creating an inseparable connection between nature and man. The painter’s works fascinate with her precision, manner of performance and idyllic romanticization of the untouched natural landscape, invite the viewer to look back and look again and see the beauty of the forest, sea, landscape, to feel the fullness of nature.
Organizers of the exhibition: Gabrielė Gallery and Jurbarkas Regional Museum. The exhibition will run until February 20.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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January 8 this year. 6 p.m. The opening of the personal painting exhibition of the painter Diana Maldeikytė-Behm will take place at the Remis Tattoo Gallery (M. Daukšos str. 16).
The author of the exhibition lives and works in Šilutė district, near Švėkšna, where he lived in Germany for some time. 1982 she graduated from the Faculty of Theater Arts of Klaipėda Conservatory. In the painting of the artist Diana Maldeikytė-Behm, there is a very important plot, a story in which the author accommodates a wide variety of characters: angels, children, animals, a consistent and thoughtful composition. The author creates transparent theatrical plots with a lot of action, wonder, mystery, waiting for a miracle, lightness and play. In her works, the painter uses bright coloristics, her drawing is highly developed, clear, stylized. The works are dominated by bright, cheerful and playful motifs, clear symbolism, frequent work testifies to the fullness and harmony of life, the inseparable connection between man and nature, the importance of fairy tales and miracles in the life of any person. Diana Maldeikytė – Behm’s works are extremely seamless, light, engaging the viewer in a fabulous world and allowing the second to break away from reality for at least a short time.
The exhibition will run until February 18. Organizers of the exhibition: GabrielėGallery and Remis Tattoo Gallery.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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The fourth photography exhibition by the photographer Valentinas Jankauskis “Photoworks paintings”
In January 9, 2020 17:30 p.m. The opening of the personal photography exhibition “Photoworks Paintings” by the photographer Valentinas Jankauskis will take place at the Lithuanian Museum of the History of Education. The author of the exhibition lives and works in Vilnius, he created this cycle in Tauragė. While still in school, he was an active participant in art competitions and was awarded various prizes. V. Jankauskis studied photography in Kaunas and attended composition courses at Kaunas College. The author of the secrets of photography studied with photographers Regimantas Meilutis, Kristinas Meilutė and Jonas Danielevičius. The author has already organized seven painting exhibitions and even three photography exhibitions, as well as participates in group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. These photographs were presented in the spring of this year, at the group exhibition of Lithuanian artists “8”, at the Berlin City Hall. Valentinas Jankauskis came to photography from the art of painting, therefore his photography has many allusions with painting. In his exhibition, V. Jankauskis presents non-standard photographs of various formats, photographs printed on canvas.
In the fourth personal photography exhibition from the cycle “Photoworks Paintings”, which was created in 2017-2018, the author pays great attention to the decorativeness of photographs through the nuances of content and form, color and experimental symbols. The abstract visual images in the work of the photographer V. Jankauskis are extremely individual, vividly transforming into signs, in which the landscape, moods and emotions, and cultural associations merge. This type of photography becomes a distinctive feature of the artist’s work. In V. Jankauskis’ work, the photographic idea is expressed through colors and transformed, often deformed images, the contacts of those images. The abstract photographs of V. Jankauskis are dominated by thematic diversity of works, complementary motifs that complement each other. The harmony of shapes and colors in artistic photographs takes you to areas of mystery. Frequent photography invites the viewer to a dialogue and moves him into a certain meditative state. In the series of photographs “Photographic Paintings” the author deliberately highlights the contact between photography and painting, the color texture, the focus is on photographic plots and intermediate stories that do not leave indifferent, involved in the process of color, reflection, mystery and pleasant discoveries. The personal photography exhibition of the photographer V. Jankauskis will run until January 31. Organizers of the exhibition: GabrielėGallery and Lithuanian Museum of Educational History.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Indrė Bagdonė personal exhibition “3”
In November 12 on 6 PM at Perkūnas house-museum (Aleksoto str 6) will be opening of the third young generation photographer Indrė Bagdonė personal photoworks exhibition ”3″. Indrė Bagdonė discovered her way in photography in 2007 , when the tryptych “Gold Scaterred by the Winds” seen in this exhibition was born unplanned. Photographer Indrė Bagdonė is a member of Public institution “Gabrielegallery”. This time on a rainy automn day Lithuanian fields photographed with sample camera and the leaves of trees manging on them became the author ‘s bussiness card and iniative to look eloquent images in the usual, often gloomy fadded on gray so called everyday and environment.
“We are all in a hurry, we are flying, and photography allows us to stop for a moment and notice extraordinary stories right here under our feet, in the mud, in a ball or among ordinary stones. The paused moment evokes endlessly different thoughts, associations, insights for each observer of photography, we each see the same image completely differently. That’s where photography fascinates. And there is a good way to stop, see, feel and share it all with others “- this is how the author talks about her work.
In the works of Indrė Bagdonė, nature, landscapes, details of nature, silhouettes, patterns created by nature, which are highlighted by black and white photography. There is a predominance of both color and object minimalism, or, on the contrary, a maximalism of details and colors, from which, as the photographer says, “the eyes are dazzling”. After all, Indre tries to stop the moments that give space for thought and gaze so that we can each discover ourselves in the observed photography.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė drew attention to Indre Bagdonė’s photographs on social networks, and then Indre’s photography path began. So far, the exhibition “3” is the first exhibition that travels through different spaces, and why the number “3”, the author says: “Just coincided with the insertion of photo archives. The eyes themselves stuck behind the triptychs, the connections between the photographs. The names of the triptychs combine individual photographs into a whole. Individual photographs have their own stories, the triptych creates an even different narrative. Among other things, the number “3” dominates in personal life, and my favorite subtitle is already a company! ”.
As art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė observes, the titles of the photographs give deeper meaning to Indre’s photographs. They are not necessarily related to the depicted thing and therefore often significantly expand the perception of the observed photography, suggest a different thought, some mystery, intuition, offer a hint, as if giving the features of a photo short story – a long story can be created from one triptych.
The nickname of the photographer’s work is revealed by the nickname Capere Sensum on the Internet – in Latin it means “to catch the feeling”. Through photographs, Indrė seeks to convey an idea, a plot, to create a space for inner reflection, to tell the stories of the moment, but most of all, to look at the photographs, create new ones in them, or perhaps discover their own stories, “go further, deeper” visible paths, spaces. The exhibition will run until December 12. Organizers of the exhibition: GabrielėGallery and Perkūnas House-Museum.
More information about the work of photographer Indre Bagdonė can be found at: http://www.gabrielegallery.eu/indre-bagdone/
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Jeweler Ieva Zigunskaya personal exhibition “Bricabromania”
In November 12 on 6 PM, wiIl be opening of the personal exhibition of jeweler Ieva Zigunskaya “Bricabromania” will take place at Perkūnas museum-house (Aleksoto str 6). In the firsth exhibition I . Zigunskaya presents jewelerly that focus on visual language of signs and symbols. The exposition is combinated by the themes of Votes, memento mori and nature fun. I. Zigunskaya was studied goldsmithing at Kaunas School of Applied Arts and has been designing sculptural jewelry four four years. The author I. Zigunskaya has participated in the Amber trip art competition several times and has been awarded twice in raw Jewelry jewelry is dominated by medieval and printing motifs that combine variuos techniques, texture and methods. The artistic creation of brutal organic metal.
The artist’s creation of brutal organic metal shapes requires precise precision – all works are done without the help of digital technology.
The exhibition organisers: Perkūnas house-museum, public institution “Gabrielegallery”.
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Opening of the exhibition “Shapes and Colors” by Vilnius jeweler Anna Lazauskienė in Kaunas
November 12 6 pm The opening of the exhibition “Shapes and Colors” of jeweler Anna Lazauskienė, who lives and works in Vilnius, will take place in Kaunas, at Perkūnas House-Museum (Aleksoto Str. 6), on the 28th of June at 6 pm After turning to jewelry more than a decade ago, A. Lazauskienė not only changed her job by specialty, but also founded her own jewelery business, Dea. The jeweler makes exquisite and luxurious jewelry, usually for women. In Latin, dea means “goddess.” As the artist herself says, “Every woman should feel like a goddess.” The designer of original jewelry A. Lazauskienė pays great attention to the quality of work, likes to look for interesting shapes, textures, play with color contrasts. The jewelery pieces presented at the exhibition are made of silver, gold and semi-precious and precious stones. The author’s jewelry titles are extremely poetic and intriguing, such as rings: Goddess, Poetry, Honey Drop, Sea Legend; earrings: “Dreams”, “Donuts”; pendant “Lithuanian Meadows”, etc. Jeweler A. Lazauskienė draws inspiration from nature, painting, photography, architecture and handicrafts. The artist’s work intertwines motifs of applied art and various authoring techniques. Jewelry is extremely conceptual.
The author says about her path to jewelry: “It all started with bead piercing. Once upon a time, I made bunches of different size garnets, carnelian and quartz pebbles. They were quite heavy but looked flashy. After seeing them, a friend of the artist offered to exchange her work – I gave her these earrings and she gave me a picture of herself. Earrings caught the interest of her friend’s jeweler and suggested that she learn more about jewelry. At that time, jewelry seemed to me an almost impossible mission at all, so the offer was not only surprising but also very exciting. So I spent two weeks of my vacation in a jeweler workshop. Soon a friend’s brother offered an apprenticeship job. All I had to do was buy some basic small tools and learn how to work metal. This was followed by independent trials, experiments and discoveries. The number of tools was increasing and the ignition was increasing. Later, there was another opportunity to learn and improve at an art studio in Vilnius. Little by little I wanted to buy one or another piece of jewelery that I had created. Already then I realized that jewelry is my great passion. ” The exhibition will be open until 12 December. The exhibition is being organized by Perkūnas House Museum and Public Institution GabrieleGallery.
The curator of the exhibition is art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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October 18 at the Jurbarkas Regional Museum. The traveling exhibition of the famous textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė “Memory” will be opened at 3 pm. Marijona Sinkevičienė, a textile artist, was born in Tauragė and lives and works in Kaunas. This exhibition has already been presented in Kaunas, Vilnius, Kėdainiai, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Poland, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Estonia, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Latvia.
In 1971, she graduated from Kaunas Stepas Žukas Applied Art Technical School with a degree in clothing modeling. She was worked as a lecturer at Kaunas College and later became an assistant professor. Since 1987 she is a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union. Also belongs to the textile group “We are”. The author participates intensively in group exhibitions and organizes personal textile exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. She participates in the plenary workshops, workshops and implements textile art projects. M. Sinkevičienė’s works have been purchased by: Gdynia, Krosna, Lithuanian Art Museum, National Museum of Čiurlionis, Raseiniai Region Historical Museum. The author has created textile works for Kaunas National Drama Theater (1986), Ukrainian Slavich kindergarten and a series of five tapestries entitled “The Seasons” (1987).
Sinkevičienė’s works combine classic textiles and modernity. The artist’s works are diverse in her subject matter and textile technologies.
In presenting her exhibition, the author says: “The series of exhibitions on the exhibition tells about the history of our nation, the events that Lithuania has experienced: the centenary of Lithuanian statehood, the restoration of independence, 13 January. The works recall the historical memory of Lithuania as a document of our nation, which always reminds that Freedom has its price, dipped in the blood of heroes, in order to convey the path of the nation and its determination to preserve global values. ”
In the tapestries presented at the exhibition, the author weaves the verses of the Lithuanian national anthem and the song “Lithuania dear” in various textures, playing with fragments, appealing to each Lithuanian’s historical memory, feelings of national identity and self-esteem. modernizes, with modern textile language, invites dialogue on historical memory and its evolution. The exhibition runs until November 30. Organizers of the exhibition: GabrieleGallery and Jurbarkas Regional Museum.
The curator of the exhibition is art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Personal Exhibition of Painter by Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė from the cycle Life Full of Chaos. Opening of the personal exhibition of the painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė from the cycle “LIFE IN FULL CHAOSO” at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Latvia (Address Rūpniecības iela 24, Riga, September 26, 6 pm) Painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė She has organized about 40 solo exhibitions in Lithuania and Ireland, participated in group exhibitions in Germany and Italy.
The latest part of the artist’s painting cycle has already been exhibited in Lithuania, Germany and is now on display in Riga. The paintings of the painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė are distinguished by mysticism, mystery, subtext and dialogue with the tradition of abstract art. The composition of the painter’s work is united not only by color harmonies or contrasts, which create a reflection of uncertainty and melancholy on the flowing time, past and present, but also moods. The most recent cycle of a painter consists of more than twenty paintings of different formats, created in different periods.
Not only abstract style, but also yellowish-greenish colors, play of subtle shapes unite all these works, as well as one of the distinguishing elements of painting and work is a white expressive line that reveals the contradiction of both the creative world and the surrounding world. The paintings of the painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė are characterized by subtle nuance, dynamics of forms and variety. The author explores the philosophical dialogue between the individual and the environment, presenting visuals, both through symbols and through color and thematic motifs. Zita Tarasevičienė has a strong visual language of signs and symbols. The most recent works are characterized by the figurative interpretation of the object, the figure of the person, and in the frequent works the signs of the abstract landscape and the color symbolism appear. The expressive, dynamic composition of colorist variations adds to the artist’s original artistic world. The painter is constantly searching and experimenting. In the latest cycle, she highlights the contradictions and diversity of her visual world, combining both lyrical and symbolic sides of the chaotic world and environment. Since 2018 the artist has been collaborating with the public institution Gabriele Gallery.
Organizers of the exhibition: Public Institution GabrieleGallery and Lithuanian Embassy in Latvia. The exhibition will be open until 5 November. Visiting the exhibition – by appointment +371 673 209 19.
Curator of the exhibition Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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The personal photography exhibition of Alvydas Šalkauskas, a photographer from Šiauliai, will be opened at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, in Estonia (UuS 15) on the 20th of September at 5 pm The exhibition is presented by Public Institution GabrieleGallery. The author will attend the opening of the exhibition.
The most important photography cycles of Alvydas Šalkauskas: “Lithuanian Manors”, “Playing with Light”, “Memories of the Native Village”, “Birthdays”, “Colleagues”, “Vilnius”, “Under the Sign of the Sun”, “Through the Flow of Time” , panoramic photographic cycles of “Native Village Remnants” and more.
Exhibition “Endangered and Rebirthing Manors” has already been presented in Klaipėda at the premises of the Union of Architects Gallery, J. Liaudansko Gallery of Kelmė Cultural Center, Biržai Region Museum “Sėla”, Biržai Castle, Kaunas Perkūnas House-Museum, Joniškis White Synagogue.
Photo artist Alvydas Šalkauskas was born in 1958 in Molėtai. Currently lives and works in Šiauliai. In 1985 he graduated from the Art Faculty of Šiauliai Kazys Preikšas Pedagogical Institute (now Šiauliai University, Faculty of Social Sciences). From graduation to 1993, the work of photographer Alvydas Šalkauskas was related to Šiauliai University. Since 1993 A. Salkauskas has been engaged in individual activities. Since 2004 he is a member of the Lithuanian Union of Photographers. In the same year, he was granted the status of Art Creator. Also cooperates with the public institution Gabriele Art Gallery. Photo artist Alvydas Šalkauskas has organized about 15 solo exhibitions, has participated in 36 group exhibitions, plenaries and art events with professional artists.
The author has been interested in photography since childhood. Manor project has been under development since 2010. When he created the manor project, the photo artist has traveled to 50 Lithuanian manors. The artist’s photographer are not only documentary, but his photographs represent the field of architectural photography, which is important not only for aesthetics, but also for the context, as a whole. The photographer displayed in the exhibition show not only the facades of the mansions, but also the whole of the manor, the natural environment, fragments of the interior, but also the whole of the manor, the natural environment, fragments of the interior .
The project is dedicated to the centenary of the Lithuanian statehood. The project is currently ongoing. The exhibition invites you to get acquainted with the history of manors immortalized in photographs. Discover and see their changes, their history, the unexpected and seen details of the artist, bringing the forgotten story closer. Organizers of the exhibition: Public Institution Gabrielle Art Gallery and Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Estonia. The exhibition will be open until August 8, 2020.
Press release prepared by art critic Gabrielle Kuizinaitė
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On September 12 at 5:30 pm, Zita Vilutytė, an internationally recognized artist and painter, will open her personal painting exhibition Terra Nova at the Business Park AUŠRA Art Zone (Vytauto Ave. 23). Some of the paintings in this collection have already been exhibited in Lithuanian and foreign exhibitions, and some completely new ones will be presented for the first time. Zita Vilutytė has organized over 50 solo and group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad (Denmark, Italy, India, Netherlands, Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary, Portugal, Malta, etc.).
“We are going through a very exciting, broad and fundamental time of transformation, where everything is changing, from lifestyle to technology. Although it is a time of great opportunity, it is still full of dangers. Now is the moment when we have to make a decision and become responsible for our own lives, not just for our own, but for our lives in general. For thoughts, words, every action and everything we do. To think that changes in the consciousness of all mankind will be easy and fast is a utopia. But those who realize it must act.
Where is the artist’s place in this period of change?
Being an artist in today’s world requires a lot of effort. Not only is it the duty of the artist to create an original expression, the artist must also be able to share what has already been created. A constant threat to the artist’s authenticity is commercialism, a consumerist society that can easily defeat the artist’s spiritual growth and blur the line between true living art and dead, stagnant art.
We live in a peculiar country that, after the fall of communism, has transformed itself into an era of extinguishing capitalism, torn by crises, by fierce competition for production and consumption. The old period has left us with a degraded environment and a sclerotic political culture enslaved by prejudices and interests. Nevertheless, this new period offers great opportunities. Everything changes, today becomes history tomorrow, and our time is now. ”Z.Vilutytė
Zita Vilutytė’s creative activity is very wide and diverse – holistic art, interdisciplinary art – painting, graphics, music, poetry, motion theater, video art. 2004 The activity of the Holistic Movement Theater “S”, established in 1944, has expanded from motion performances and music production to interdisciplinary educational project activities and various other events in Lithuania and abroad. Since 2006 Zita Vilutytė is a member of Ambient music garden’s Ambient music garden (UK), has released 17 music albums, has written music for documentaries and plays. She conducts interviews and writes art and culture publications on various portals, curates international exhibitions of artists in Lithuania and abroad. Her poetry is published on the US World Press portal and in Indian literary magazines.
2016 IAF ANIMA MUNDI is an association of professionals and innovators from different countries in the fields of culture, art, science and education. Zita is president of this association, and the art, education and research project ANIMA MUNDI is aimed at artists from around the world.
Starting in 2018 The Association organizes the International Project of Art of Social Practice and the International Biennial of Contemporary Art NO standART. IAF ANIMA MUNDI events never take place in the same spaces, they migrate in Lithuania and often move to other countries. Preparations are under way for the establishment of an International Migrant Academy, bringing together cultural and scientific professionals from around the world.
www.iaf-animamundi.com
2011 The Netherlands F.G.S. The exhibition collection ATLAS OBSCURA has won a bronze award in the international competition organized by the gallery. Later, I participated in the international exhibition of Scandinavian mythological art in Brondum, Katrineholm Gallery, to which I was invited as a guest curator after the Kerteminde International Art Festival in Denmark.
2012 The OPENART project took place in Rome (Italy) at the prestigious Sale del Bramante Gallery, where the ATLAS OBSCURA collection was presented. 2013 She participated in the International Art Festival in Brondum and her solo exhibition was opened at Mimers Gallery (Denmark).
2015 Zita Vilutytė’s work has been featured in the global artist almanac PEACE, which is published annually in Damascus (1200 pages). 2017-18 she participated in the International Contemporary Art Biennial in Malta APSMDINA BIENNAL, 2018. THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE in Valletta.
2018 The film “Caerdroia” (directed by Z. Vilutytė, music by Z. Vilutytės, G. Dapkevičius) was screened at the International Vigilia International Earth Art Festival in Norway. 2019 At the International Biennial in Belgrade (Serbia), organized by the Belgrade Cultural and Art Association, the artist received the Honorary Artist Award. 2019 In June, the International Exhibition of Miniature Art took place at the DUAL Gallery in Budapest (Hungary).
Paintings and prints are on display at the World Museum of Drawings in Macedonia, at the Mark K. Gregorovich Memorial Museum in Brewow, Montenegro, and at the D. Kipiani Memorial Museum in Georgia. Most of them went to private collections – in Portugal, Malta, India, UK, Sweden, Russia, Latvia, USA and others.
More recently, the artist has signed a contract with the contemporary art almanac FAKfulness in Poland to publish her paintings. There are exhibitions in various countries in the near future.
The exhibition is presented by Public Institution GabrieleGallery and Business Park AUŠRA ”.
Press release prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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A little heavenly life at a New York photo artist exhibition
September 6 5:30 p.m. The photography exhibition “Renay Elle Morris, Photographer – Reborn Life” will be opened at Kaunas Cultural Center on the 30th of May at 6 pm
“A little heavenly life fills a space that only a limited imagination completes. Going through the labyrinth of my life, I challenged what had become safe and perhaps too causal. I long for what could become a bump in trails, wrong stairs, steep climbs and gloomy waters. An unimaginable life is one that provokes exploration and shows what needs to be changed. For me, it’s a historical exploration along with aesthetic drawings and questions: who, when and where in this labyrinth found their place of creative intent, ”says Renay.
Renay Elle Morris is an internationally recognized writer, award-winning graphic designer and photographer with experience in advertising and marketing communications. Renay is a graduate of the prestigious Krannert School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This campus also includes the Krannert Museum of Fine Arts (KAM), the second largest art museum in Illinois with a permanent collection, with more than 10,000 works of art.
Renay’s career is interwoven with graphics and photography. She served as Creative Director and led teams in media development for both private and public organizations, including: Universal Pictures, Sony Music / CBS Records, CBS Publications, and TDS Time Warner. Renay Elle Morris works for CorporateIDeasWorldwide and renayellemorris.com, photopresseimages.com. portals and supports a visual communications and consulting platform for global clients.
As a journalist and member of the US and foreign press communities, Renay was an international news editor and co-author of Picture magazine, nominated for a very important Lucie Award. She collaborates on various portals and publications as an art critic. In addition, since 2016, she is editor of content development for photography and fine arts at Arstler.com. Her career in the arena has led her to a list of outstanding celebrity publications, including the profiles of members of the Magnum Group and among world leaders in the art publishing industry, leaders in the photography studio industry. She has taught alongside renowned professors to students of photography schools, drawing on innovative ideas and programs in her work. Renay participates in workshops on photography aesthetics, reviews, lecture programs, photography workshops and other photography related projects.
Currently, her main focus is fine art photography, presented in large format. Renay participates in gallery exhibitions in the US and abroad. 2017-2018 At the APS Contemporary Art Biennale at the MDINA Department of Malta, she presented a series of photographs on the theme “Mediterranean: Sea of Conflict”. Renay was awarded at the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Women Art 2018, No standART, My History in Lithuania. 2019 September. she returns to Lithuania, Kaunas, with her solo exhibition “renay elle morris, photographer – reborn life”.
The exhibition is organized by IAF ANIMA MUNDI International Association, Gabriel Gallery and Kaunas Cultural Center.
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Personal Photography Exhibition by the photographer Mindaugas Norkus ” Moments ”
August 30 at 3 p.m. Jurbarkas Regional Museum will host the opening of the photography exhibition of the photographer Mindaugas Norkus ” Moments ”. About 1980 the artist M. Norkus started working on Lithuanian television, then it was possible to take photos of cultural and public representatives, who had met at various events, to capture portraits of people they met, and to memorize memorable moments. M. Norkus started working in Lithuanian television at the age of 18, initially as a worker, decorator, requisitioner, later as an assistant to a cameraman. Later, the fate took the author of the exhibition to the Lithuanian Film Studio, where he worked as Deputy Director of Art Films and assisted the director Vytautas Žalakevičius in the film studio ” Studio 2000 ”.
Famous portraits of cultural and public figures, actors, writers and artists have been captured in the introductory photography exhibition ” Moments ”, nowadays many of them are no longer: actress Ruta Staliliūnaitė, writer Jurga Ivanauskaitė, photographer and traveler Paulius Normantas, poet Sigitas Geda, philosopher professor Leonidas Donskis and others.
The genre of portrait in art photography has its own specifics. The unexpected moment is very important in the documentary portraits of M. Norkus famous cultural and public figures and theater actors. Posture, relationship to the environment, accent detail, facial expression, and gaze are all very important in artistic portrait photography. Speaking of photography, the author of the exhibition says, ” Cinema is no longer interesting to me, but photography still attracts me. Maybe I just don’t like that new modernist photography, I stay at the portraits, ‘the author said. These portraits were created from 1975 to the present.
By taking artistic portraits, the author becomes an observer and fixator.
The exhibition has already been presented: in 2014 at the cinema ” Skalvija ”, in 2015 at Vilnius Town Hall, Marijampolė Culture Center, Kaunas Culture Center ” Nation House ”, Alvydas Jurgis Kunčinas Public Library and other spaces. The exhibition will be open until October 15. Organizers of the exhibition: Jurbarkas Regional Museum and Public Institution GabrielGallery. The press release is made public.
The press release was prepared by art critic Gabriele Kuizinaitė
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On June 17-21 th, the Kaunas Cultural Center together with the public institution Gabriele Art Gallery and the Lithuanian Museum of Education History is organizing a plein air of painters dedicated to the Centenary of the Provisional Capital “Temporary Capital in Painting”. In order to share the experience and to reveal the temporary capital of different perspectives in the exhibition that captures Kaunas today, artists representing professional painting and amateur art were invited to participate in the plenary. Painters Gintautas Vaičys, Gitas Markutis, Valentinas Jankauskis, artist from Ukraine Marina Čopei, Zita Virginija Taraseviciene, Ruta Barniškytė-Klusienė, Vida Bagdonienė, Regina Cemnolonskienė, Natalija Karpinskienė, Gražina Ašmienė and Juozas will participate in the plenair.
The main theme of the plein air is reflection of Kaunas historical and cultural context. Artists are encouraged to look for and reflect on the reflections of Kaunas historical memory, the self-awareness of Kaunas as a temporary capital and its signs. A contemporary look at the phenomenon of Kaunas city history, architecture, city spirit is likely to encourage new interpretations by artists and new creative imagery.
During the plein air, participants will be offered an excursion to the Museum of Lithuanian Education History, discussions, meetings of artists in the studios of the famous painter Gintautas Vaičys and painter Gitas Markutis. June 21 A joint exhibition of works created during the plein air will be held at Kaunas Culture Center on the 28th of September.
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Roberto Misiukonio personal photography retrospective exhibition “Dream of Vision”
From June 17 this year, the photography exhibition of Robert Misiukonis will be open at the Jurbarkas Regional Museum, Exhibition and Concert Hall.
Photo artist Robertas Misiukonis is an artist from Kaunas city. Since 1981 he is a member of the Lithuanian Union of Photographers. In 1984, he graduated from the KPI Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 1976 he founded the KPI-PHOTO Club. Until 1984 he was Chairman of the Board. And since 1986 he has become artistic director of the club. From 1991 to 2014 he was the head of KTU-PHOTO studio. Since 2013 she works as a photography teacher at Kaunas School of Applied Arts and is the project manager behind the workshops. During the implementation of this project, meetings with well-known photographers are taking place. Since 2015 has been cooperating with the public institution Gabriele Gallery. Organizes solo exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.
Photo artist Robertas Misiukonis presents an unprecedented retrospective-personal photography exhibition “SapnoVision”. Photo artist Robertas Misiukonis, in his retrospective photography exhibition “SapnoVision”, presents photographs of different periods using different photographic techniques and technologies. This new series of photos uses infrared, pinhol, studio cameras, manipulation, special filter magic. The photographs in the exhibition are subtle, sensitive, combining natural motifs, details of the environment, and in his frequent work the author uses a doubled image, the foreground and background of which is a portrait of a woman, an act of a woman. There are quite a few images of nature created at different times of the year. Often captured images of the native Kaunas are presented in single or double frames. Unexpected juxtapositions, a nuanced perspective, and a color tone that gives photography the impression of surrealistic photography magic are the hallmarks of these photographs. R. Misiukonis presents a photograph marked by the dynamics of emotional survival and thought, in which the fragment of dream vision or the reality of the day and their coherence are symbolically revealed through the narrative. Photographs often evoke allusions with directing photography. The exhibition runs until July 17.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Photographica exhibition “Poppy Dance”
June 6 4pm Opening of the exhibition “Poppy Dance” by the photo artist Gražina Pašakarnienė will take place at the Perkūnas house-museum on the 12th of April.
In mythology, poppy occupies a special place. In ancient times, poppy was considered a sacred plant by the gods, the Greek poet Theocritus (3rd century BC) came from the tears of Aphrodite, who fell to mourn the loss of her beloved Adonis, the poppy god Morpheus, a goddess of flowers. , a symbol of sleep and oblivion.
No wonder the ephemeral beauty of poppies fascinated me as well. Fragile and delicate like silk poppy rings have captivated my gaze and have not let go until now… red poppy rings are like passionate dancers in red skirts fluttering in a dance beat.
The works of the cycle “Poppy Dance” are organically intertwined with sentimental graphic images of digital poppies and photographs created by computer technology.
These are images of captured images that have passed through the prism of my feelings, thoughts, associations or memories and become new multi-layered and multi-sensory photographic works.
I loved photography techniques. I have used black and white works to illustrate poetry books. I have exhibited book illustrations printed on handmade paper at the Poetry Mysteries exhibition.
Grazina Pašakarnienė
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Exhibition of painter by Jolita Lubienė
Kaunas City Municipality, Panemunė branch of V. Kudirka Public Library (Vaidoto Str. 115) from 3 June. a personal exhibition of the young generation painter Jolita Lubienė is open. The painter Jolita Lubienė was born and raised in Panevėžys, currently lives and works in Kaunas district. Since 2014, she has participated in plenary shows as well as in group exhibitions. Jolita Lubienė started art since childhood, but I have been participating in exhibitions more intensively for several years. For some time now, the artist has deepened her knowledge of art in the studio of the famous painter Antanas Obcarskas, and with his work participates in the annual exhibitions of the students of this painter’s studio.
The author of the exhibition creates abstract and expressive paintings, which are united by linear dynamic painting style, blue-green, yellowish coloring. In this exhibition, painter Jolita Lubienė presents twelve paintings of various formats, united not only by similar coloring, stylistics, but also by mood and emotion, which give the artist great pleasure. The author talks about her work: “By touching the secrets of painting, I enjoy the strokes of expressive abstraction, the creative breakthroughs, because painting alone is a great opportunity to be” here and now “and to be released in freedom / captivity.”
Jolita Lubienė creates delicate feminine painting inspired by nature, moods and cultural contexts. The works of the author “speak” to the viewer in the language of expressive strokes, but at the same time help to immerse in a world of colors, sensual nuances and play with paintings, which harmonize, enrich and invite artistic meditation.
The exhibition runs until July 3. Organizers of the exhibition: Public Institution Gabriele Gallery and Panemunė branch of Kaunas City Municipality V. Kudirka Public Library.
Press release prepared by art critic Gabriele Kuizinaitė
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Photography exhibition “2XItaly” by Eglė Ščerbinskaitė
Starting from May 30, the photography exhibition of the photographer Eglė Ščerbinskaitė “2XItalija” will be open at Business Park AURA (Vytauto pr. 23). In the exhibition E. Ščerbinskaitė presents 12 large format photographs printed on organic glass. A frequent series of photographs by this author are staged. The author creates the narrative script, later the stage design of the narrative, in which the characters are placed. All this is captured in one series or another. The series of photographs displayed in the exhibition is created in Italy, thus the architecture, certain buildings and fragments of architecture of this country become an important and integral part of the artist’s image. Country landscapes, nature motifs are another important background. And the protagonist of the photographic scene is a woman, whose mood, emotion, harmonious inner and outer beauty are only accentuated by the aforementioned contexts and backgrounds. The author of the exhibition helps to highlight the aesthetic world of a woman in an unconventional costume of makeup and dance. Thus, the theatrical narrative of a woman enchants with its dynamics, vitality and aesthetics.
According to art curator Eglė Knygauskaitė – Liakienė, E. Ščerbinskaitė practices the rare art of directing photography, which sets her apart from other Lithuanian photographers and takes the genre of directing photography to a higher level. “The first self-portraits were attempts to hide under famous characters, personalities, stylistic transformations, leaving recognizable codes, and so on. Later, the artist realizes that she does not have to flee from herself, but on the contrary, she has to use her thoughts and experiences towards self-knowledge. So the photo was taken out of the comfort zone, in harsh conditions, during a storm, rain, snow. When it is difficult, you are sure, because there is no time and effort to pretend and disguise. This path towards self-knowledge has grown into a social image through personal experience. ”
The author of the photographs raises the question of when people are real and when they are what they imagine they want to be. And what is more important – to be or to look? Analyzes how attire, image, style influence and reflect people’s behavior, well-being, even political views. The artist often experimented on journeys where self-portrait photo sessions turned into performances, when many curious people gathered to observe the behavior of the photographer (the camera was standing on a stand, taking pictures with a remote control), and many viewers did not even notice the camera.
The exhibition “2XItaly” is best described by the author herself: “Welcome to the spectacle of my life. Italy is my scene today. The sun is my spotlight, the bystanders my viewers. Performing my role accurately puzzles the viewer, watching every movement of me with blinding eyes. No, I’m not mad, I’m not trying to make you forget anything, in fact you don’t even care. My theater does not need spectators. I’m an actress, I play my life, I’m a reflection in the mirror, in the water, a shadow in the wall I’m me. You don’t have to buy a ticket to my performance, because you do not deserve to watch it, praise it, admire it. Unless I invite you … I’ll have another performance. Two x Italy. “
Eglė Ščerbinskaitė’s personal photography exhibition “2XItalija” is open at Business Park AUŠRA I – V from 9 am. until 6 p.m. The exhibition is free of charge.
Press release prepared by art critic Gabriele Kuizinaitė
The exhibition is presented by Public Institution GabrieleGallery and Business Park AUSRA.
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If you’re in the mood for a nice May eve, you’re in the Old Town of Kaunas and are looking for experiences or unexpected discoveries, visit Remis Tattoo Gallery (M. Daukšos Str. 16). Here on May 10 th at 6 p.m. Exhibition of graphic works by Žydrūnas Šlajus will be opened. In which the graphic presents an undeservedly forgotten portrait genre. In this exhibition you will feel like a beautiful, recognizable company. Among the distinguished contemporaries, wonderfully charming women, or men reminiscent of James Bond (depicting the life-long passions and hobbies of the characters in the works), portraits of tender girls (youthful melancholy) speak of the author’s prowess. All the people who come to the exhibition live their lives in the paintings, which the author reveals to us through graphic means of expression, color and font. Predictably witty play of words, different technologies, details of different epochs and periods, sometimes adopting comic stylistics, show a sustained sense of humor, mastery of the genre and experience.
Speaking of the portrait genre, Ž. Šlajus says: “With the advent of Europe and, after a while, the spread of the euro in Lithuania, I have noticed that the portrait genre disappears, even in the form of banknotes. Then came the idea of fulfilling portraits of people in a manner that resembles portraiture in portraits. At the same time, they wanted a larger scale, format. Impression. Therefore, I started to simulate (simulate) the specifics of gravure expression using a computer. This provided the opportunity to execute any work without being limited in format and without compromising print quality. ”
This is the first exhibition of the graphic artist Žydrūnas Šlajus, but the author is full of new ideas and is purposefully approaching the second exhibition. Especially because the artist is a great painter, who received the basics of classical graphics at maestro Romualdas Čarna, Kaunas Art Gymnasium (then J. Naujalis Secondary School of Art). Graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts. She has a degree in applied graphics from the Department of Architecture and Design. He joined the show business while still a student. Žydrūnas Šlajus participated in performances as a creator and as a co-author with Post ars member Aleks Andriuškevičius. One of his most memorable performances in 1992, he was one of the most memorable performances he had with fellow students. It was an action to dress P. Mazur’s sculpture “Man” near M. Žilinskas Art Gallery. The event also received media attention. Since 1993 Žydrūnas Šlajus has been working in the field of graphic design. His creative areas include drawing and graphics. The work is accomplished by various techniques: linen carvings, silk screen printing, digital printing, computer drawings. His knowledge and skills in the field of computer graphics are appreciated by graphic and graphic design professionals and are frequently sought help. The exhibition runs until June 30.
The press release is based on the text of the graphic Žydrūnas Šlajus.
Organizers of the exhibition: GabrielleGallery and Remis Tattoo Gallery.
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On May 9 4pm The personal exhibition of paintings “Transformation of the surface” will be opened at the Thunder House Museum. The author will participate in the opening of the exhibition.
Artist Areta Didžionienė talks about her cycle of paintings “Transformation” in a very philosophical way.
The author’s work reflects the perception and recognition of changes and their analysis from a time perspective. She whispers in a nostalgic breeze about the changing city of Vilnius. With the help of imagination, the artist moves the image in the space of thought and can be seen in the canvas. Not wanting to create realistic paintings, the artist transforms the images, gives them her personal energy and positivity.Thinking about the past, the author deals with contemporary problems with the help of fine art, reviews the topicality of ecological problems, economic growth, and the importance of environmental protection. In her life as a river that never stops, the artist chooses vivid symbols. One is the tree. It speaks of solidity, security and, as a peculiar axis, mystifies urban growth, change and the charm of architectural masterpieces.
While presenting to the audience the metamorphoses of Vilnius Old Town, the artist reveals the spatial components of architecture that change in the haze of time by dissolving her clear outlines. Extra vibrations are provided by purposefully and accidentally leaked paint accents that uniquely express space, freedom, air, and become mysterious time strands that intertwine with buildings. There is an insurmountable need to touch the physical sensation of the image. Touch…In her work, the author follows the tale of old Vilnius, whose decaying but unending buildings have the hope of surviving by changing and creating new unheard-of stories.Part of the works are dreamed-up faces, kindred souls that blend in with architectural fragments, sky space, and landscape. For the author, this becomes a mystical blend of micro and macro worlds. Each painting under the peculiar veil of mystery perpetuates the need for harmony and aesthetics, and the dynamics of strokes reveal vital powers. It has to be admitted that the artist’s paintings tell rich, interesting and topical topics. The language of painting intrigues and engages the viewer, and the emotional integrity of the painting cycle allows for a sense of harmony.
The most important thing is that everything in Areta Didžionienė’s work goes from the heart and she is ready to share that warmth with the viewer. The press release is based on the text of the artist-technologist, heritage conservationist, art historian, chairwoman of Šiauliai Art Teachers’ Methodical Group, and LETA Šiauliai branch council member Aneta Koryznė.
The exhibition will be open until May 30, the organizers of the exhibition are Public Institution “.Gabriele Gallery” and Perkūnas House-Museum.
Group Lithuanian artist”s Exhibition “8” by Lithuanian artists at Berlin City Hall
On May 2 at 4 p.m. The group exhibition “8” of Lithuanian artists will be opened at Berlin’s Berlin City Hall (im Rathaus Mitte Berlin Karl Marx Allee 31, 10178). Eight Lithuanian artists representing different fields of art will present their works at the exhibition. The exhibition is presented by the public institution GabrieleGallery, which has been cooperating with art and cultural institutions in Germany for seven years, as well as organizing international exhibitions of foreign artists in Lithuania and abroad. Lithuanian Artists Exhibition-Project 8
Lithuanian Embassy in Berlin and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
Textile artist Danguolė Brogienė, painters Dalia Kirkutienė, Rūta Levulienė, Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė, photo artist’s Iridijus Švelnys and Valentinas Jankauskis, jeweler Nijolė Jovarienė, sculptor Gabrielė Biering-Žemaitytė are taking part in the exhibition.
Textile artist, professor of Vilnius Academy of Arts Danguolė Brogienė presents ornamental geometric tapestries at the exhibition. 2016-2017 The works “Lightning Lightning”, “Ancestral Signs”, “Kites”, “Meditation”, the tapestries are very important language of signs and symbols, which is presented in symmetrical geometric forms, highlighting the harmony of textures and color nuances.
The painter Dalia Kirkutienė is constantly experimenting with abstract forms and subtle coloring in her work, which denotes artistic images enriched with emotions and associations. The painting “Lake” by the painter Dalia Kirkutienė became the face of the exhibition, where abstract images form a unified composition of natural motif and sensual expression.
The painter Rūta Levulienė presents works from the series “Landscapes” created in 2017-2018. From the beginning of his creative career the painter has become an abstract manners. The author seeks inspiration from nature, the motif of a plant or a detail of nature becomes the basis for frequent improvisation of a work. The author’s works are distinguished by expression, dynamics of shapes and bright colors.
The painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė exhibits works that highlight subtle nuances of color and precision of abstract forms. While creating an extremely diverse and immediate world, the author explores the philosophical dialogue between the individual and the world of the environment. Provides visuals full of a variety of motifs and colors.
Photographer artist Iridijus Švelnys presents photographs from the cycle “Tree Graphics” at the exhibition. The artistic narrative of trees is coherent, and the author looks at every detail. Photographs stand out in a modern “framing circle” composition, in a distinctive style.
Photographer artist Valentinas Jankauskis presents a series of photographs entitled “Paintings of Photography” at the exhibition. The author is inspired by the environment – urban, natural, architectural themes that are expressed in abstract language. The author intentionally sharpens the interface between photography and painting, emphasizes the color texture of photography, and the impression that the photographs are printed on canvas reinforces the impression of painting.
The jeweler Nijolė Jovarienė exhibits the collection: “Crossing Fire and Water”. German mysticist Hildegard von Bingen, a deep, diverse understanding of the interplay between all phenomena, her sense of purpose on Earth, the perception that “endless creatures of nature” led to the creation of this collection. Jewelry brings to life antique, expressive details with their forms and textures. The author seeks to express the harmony between history and modernity in a new artistic language. . Improvisational combinations give the effect of magical meditation, the scorched enamel combines with pearls, crystal beads, metal lace and antique elements. It’s an exciting time travel. The collection was created in 2019.
The sculptor Gabrielle Biering-Žemaitytė lives and creates in Berlin. The sculptures of the author touch on the themes of family and dreaming woman. The works work with inner calmness, impressively concentrated. The exhibition will be open until May 31
The press release is based on the text of the exhibition curator, art critic Gabrielle K
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Latvian artist Aina Putnina’s parsonal exhibition of painting and computer graphics “Waiting for the Spring”
The exhibition of the Latvian artist Aina Putnina, personal painting and computer graphics “Waiting for the Spring” will be opening at the Exhibition and Concert Hall of Jurbarkas Museum on April 12 at 2 pm.
Painter Aina Putnina was graduated from the Latvian Academy of Fine Arts in 1992 and the Baltic International Academy in Riga in 2011. Since 1994 he has participated in exhibitions, workshops, plein airs and other projects in Latvia and abroad. Since 1993, Aina Putnina has been working at Children’s and Adult Art School, teaching painting and computer graphics.
“Like most artists in the northern countries, the wait for spring is a very important emotional state for every artist. And this exhibition is about dark and long winter time, ”says the artist. Aina Putnina uses traditional painting and digital graphics in her creative process, and the exhibition “Waiting for Spring” is an experiment that combines these quite different visual languages into one. Mixed technique helps to reveal the artist’s worldview.
“Aina Putnina’s work is dominated by modern technologies that offer many new ways of expression. However, painting remains a priority and technology is only used as an accessory. The dominant themes in creation are minimalist symbols, purified through deep internal contemplation and a long creative path. Aina touches on the very fragile problems of the human being and penetrates the subconscious to find answers. Her works have many pauses and defaults, so one can feel the breath of poetry. ”Z.Vilutytė
In the paintings presented by Aina Putnina, the dominant color range from gray to red, and the abstract style of painting conceals an abundance of metaphors and emotions. The artist’s work has a distinctive philosophical approach to the changing seasons, and here the relationship between nature and human fragility is important. There are many geometric characters in the paintings that create an interesting language of symbols. The artist’s work‘s are dominated by a harmonious balance and peace. The content of the paintings is complemented by light and shadow, giving the visual language a subtle expression. The exhibition runs until May 15. Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Curator of the exhibition – Gabriele Kuizinaitė, organizers of the exhibition: Jurbarkas Regional Museum and International Association IAF ANIMA MUNDI, exhibition partner Public institution GabrieleGallery.
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Personal exhibition by painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė „The Way of Chaos“
In April 3 at 5 p.m. Opening of the traveling exhibition of the painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė “The Way of Chaos” will take place at the Perkūnas House Museum (Aleksoto St. 6). The painter Zita Virginija Taraseviciene has been creating for 20 years and has held about 30 exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad: in Italy and Ireland. And at the beginning of May the author will present her work in the group exhibition of 8 Lithuanian artists at the Berlin City Hall (Berolina-Galerie im Rathaus Alt Mitte). Since 2018 painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė has been collaborating with the public institution „GabrieleGallery“.
The painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė also participates in group exhibitions and plenary sessions with professional artists. In her most recent exhibition of her paintings, the author will present about 17 paintings of various sizes, reflecting different emotions, and in her frequent work we see a variety of both color and form. The author often invites the viewer to discuss philosophical topics. Most of the paintings in the exhibition are untitled, but the subject of some of her works is described by the author under the title “Wanderings Under the Labyrinth of Dreams” and “Emotions.”
The work of the painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė is extremely diverse and constantly changing. However, in her work the author focuses on the abstract style of painting. Great attention is paid to the search for form. Her work is inspired by natural motifs, based on symbolic stylization of recognizable objects and motifs, philosophical insight, a flash of emotion, and creative search.
In the recent exhibition of the author, the relationship with the person becomes very important, with a great deal of attention paid to the inner human experiences and states. Often a ball symbol appears in the paintings.
The work of the painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė is varied in her stylistics: it is both figurative interpretation, abstract landscape and color symbolism. The relationship between man and world in his work acquires many coloristic variations, based on an emotion-driven composition that is expressive, dynamic and incorporates into the artist’s original artistic world.
The painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė is constantly looking for new themes in her works, experimenting with colorist color schemes. In her latest exhibition, the artist also highlights the ironic side of her depicted world, combining both lyrical and symbolic sides of the chaotic world and environment. The exhibition runs until May 1st. Organizers of the exhibition: Public Institution Gabriele Art Gallery and Thunder House Museum. The press release is based on the text by art critic Gabrielle Kuizinaitė
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April 2 at 5 p.m. Opening of the personal exhibition of the painter Gitas Markutis “Flight of Thoughts” at the Lithuanian Museum of Education History. The painter Gitas Markutis lives and works in Kaunas district. 1986-1993 He was studied construction economics at Vilnius Technical University. 2002-2006 studied art pedagogy at Marijampolė College. Since 2006 he has been participating in group exhibitions, plein airs, organizes solo exhibitions and is the organizer of international plein airs. Gitas Markutis is holding his first solo exhibition. This time the painter not only presents the intriguing title of the exhibition, but the works on display also highlight certain changes. This artist’s exhibition is dominated by several painting styles.
More freer strokes, active and expressive coloristic accents, unexpected compositional solutions appeared in the artist’s work. Abstract pictorial expression gives expression, dynamics, symbolic language to many of the works on display, while true emotions allow for improvisation in color and form. The themes of the works on display are quite diverse: sacred, natural, urban motifs are developed into artistic scenes that tell about the diversity, harmony and beauty of the painter’s visible world. The title of the exhibition works – Nature: Flight on the Water, Watering the Flowers, Trees by the Lagoon, Bottom, Trees in the Park, Coastal Trees and others.
The work of the exhibition “Flight of Thought” is distinguished by its conceptual nature. The path, painted in striking strokes, perhaps a flight painted in abstract manner, enhances the author’s view of the world of thought and existence. The dominant red color in this work is the accent, as are the geometricized, stylized fragments of flight and path, the particles of the whole forming an indivisible whole. The harmonious balance in the works of G. Markutis becomes the main line of his artistic creation, inviting the visitor of this exhibition to dive into the delicate world of painting. The exhibition will be open until April 30. Organizers of the exhibition: Lithuanian Museum of Education History and Public Institution GabrieleGallery.
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The press release was prepared by art critic Gabrielle Kuizinaitė
Exhibition of painter by Asta Kuzmickienė at Jurbarkas Regional Museum
The first solo exhibition of the painter Asta Kuzmickienė will be open in Jurbarkas Regional Museum Exhibition and Concert Hall on March 16. Asta Kuzmickiene lives and works in Vilnius. She was studied economics at Vilnius University. She was started painting several years ago and is actively involved in exhibitions.
In her most recent exhibition, Asta Kuzmickienė presents twenty-five works of various formats. The author has chosen an abstract form of painting, in which abstract visuals, coloristic combinations and contrasts, emotional expression expressed in color and line are very important.
The artist’s works speak of universal values: very often, therefore, the abstract basis of her paintings becomes an abstract, stylized nature motif, subtly and aptly incorporated into the overall color whole. Or, a stylized portrait, a figure in the painter’s work often extends beyond genre boundaries and becomes part of the mysterious, sensitive narrative of the world and man, the quest for the spiritual world. Firsth of all, Asta Kuzmickienė’s work‘s “talk” to the viewer with the emotional language of painting, openness, subtle, sometimes mystical allusions, the boundary between everyday realities and existential abstract imagery disappears. This is also emphasized by the titles of works exhibited in the exhibition: “The Light of Happiness”, “Summer”, “Conversations with Yourself”, “In Search of Your Way”, “Rise Above Reality and Become a Queen”, “Not Remembering Your Face”. In her creative world, the author presents a harmonious and aestheticized world that is fascinated by its sensitivity and dynamics.
Organizers of the exhibition: Jurbarkas Regional Museum and Public Institution „GabrieleGallery“, the exhibition will be open until April 12.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Photography exhibition by Valentinas Jankauskis „Photographic paintings“
In Kaunas Cultural center (Vytautas Ave. 79) In March 13 th on 5 PM will be open the second personal photographer Valentinas Jankauskis exhibition”Photographic paintings”. The author of this exhibition lives and works in Tauragė and in Kaunas cities. When he learned at school he was an active participant in art competitions and he was awarded in a variuos art prizes. V. Jankauskis was studied photography in Kaunas, in 2017 and learned compositions courses in Kaunas College. He was studied photography art at teacher’s into photographer’s Jonas Danielevičius, Regimantas Meilutis and Kristina Meilutė. The author was organised seven exhibition‘s of painting. Photographer Valentinas Jankauskis became photographer from painting art field. This is the second solo exhibition in photo art field. For the artist, this photo exhibition also is a start to working in field of photoart. In this exhibition V. Jankauskis present non-standart hihgly artistic photoworks. Photoworks is printed on canvas. The second personal photography exhibition „Photographic paintings“ created on this period 2017-2018 years. The author focuses on the ornamentation of photographs through nuances of content and form, color, experiments, symbols. The abstract visuals in the work of the photographer by Valentinas Jankauskis are very individaul, vivid, transforming into signs the blend, nature, mood and emotions, cultural associations.
This type of photography becomes an artist’s distinctive creative feature. In V. Jankauskis’ work, the photographic idea is expressed through colors and transformed, often deformed images, the conditions of those images. In the abstract photographic plane, details, signs, grow into symbols, emotions, create a visual narrative that can be related to the existential state of modern man, his feelings, reflection and feeling of the global world. V. Jankauskis’ abstract photographs are dominated by thematic variety of works, complementary and extending motifs. The harmony of artistic, photographic forms and colors takes us into the zones of philosophy, mysticism and mystery. Frequent photography invites the viewer to dialogue and takes them into a certain meditative state. In the series of photographs “Photographic Paintings”, the author consciously emphasizes the contact between photography and painting, the color texture, and focuses on photographic scenes and intermediary narratives that do not leave indifferent, involved in the process of color, reflection, mystery and pleasant discovery. V. Jankauskis’ photographs combine techniques of drawing, painting, engraving, computer graphics and photographic editing.
The exhibition will be open until April 22. Organizers of the exhibition: Kaunas Cultural Center and Public Institution “GabrieleGallery”.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė exhibition „Memory“
At the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Poland on March 8 th at 6 PM will be openining of famous textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė exhibition „Memory‘‘. Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė was born in Tauragė, but now lives and works in Kaunas. In 1971 years she graduated Kaunas Stepas Žukas Applied of Arts technical School with a specialization clothing modeling asnd construction. In 1976-1982 years she was studied at Vilnius academy of Arts, graduated textile art speciality. She was worked a lecturer at Kaunas college and later became an asociate professor. Since 1987 years she is a member of Lithuanian artist Union. She also is member of the textile artists group „We are“. She is take participate in group exhibitions and solo exhibitions in Lithuanian and also foreign countries too.
She also is take participate in plenairs, workshops and realizing textile art projects. M. Sinkevičienė works have been obtain by the Gdynia, Krosna, Lithuanian Art Museum of Poland, M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Raseiniai Region Historical Museum.
She has created textile art works for National Kaunas drama theater (1986), for the Slawitch Kindergarthen in Ukraine, she has created in a series of five tapestries called “The Seasons” (1987). M. Sinkevičienės works combined between classical and Modern textile art. The artists are quite diverse in her subject motter and textile technologies. In this exhibition M. Sinkevičienė presented the tapestry, which is associated with Lithuanian statehood symbols, national weaving tradition, Lithuanian statehood state sustainability marks, January 13 and other historical events of the Lithuanian state.
While presenting her exhibition, the author says: “The series of works exhibited in the exhibition tells about the history of our nation, the events that Lithuania has experienced: the 100th anniversary of Lithuanian statehood, the restoration of independence, 13 January, etc. The works epitomize the historical memory of Lithuania as the document of our Nation, which always reminds us that Freedom has its price, dipped in the blood of heroes, seeks to convey the path taken by the nation and its determination to preserve global values. ”
In the tapestries presented at the exhibition, the author weaves the verses of the Lithuanian national anthem and the song “Lithuania dear” in various textures, as if playing with fragments, appealing to each Lithuanian’s historical memory, feelings of national identity and self-worth. In other tapestries of the exhibition, M. Sinkevičienė improvises on the ornamentation and colors of traditional folk patterns, modernises them and invites for dialogue about historical memory and its change in modern textile language. The exhibition will be open until April 19. The exhibition is presented by the public institution „GabrieleGallery“.
Press realized preapered by Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Viktorija Jasisnskaitė-Bobina personal exhibition
From March 4th, the personal exhibition of the painter Viktorija Jasinskaitė-Bobina “Gentleness” is open at the Business Park “Aušra” Art Zone (Vytauto ave. 23).
Talking about her works, the painter Viktorija Jasinskaitė-Bobina says: “Creating is mostly inspired by the desire to have a benevolent world and to perceive it more beautifully. It is also highly inspired by beautiful music, prayers, sunlight and all nature: lakes, rivers, seas, forests, flowers, mountains and all that is beautiful in our universe, as well as by the wonderful people who have crossed my path and are still in my life”.
The works of the painter are dominated by the motifs of a woman, angel and nature. The author identifies angels with the symbol of a guardian angel. In her work, a woman becomes mysterios and mystique with an element of unpredictability. The paintings are extremely decorative, dominated by subtle colors and expressive details of nature. In the works of the artist, the image of a woman and a man is often identified with that of an angel. Natural motifs – stylized illustrations of wood and flowers are extremely fragile, poetic, nuanced and evoke associations with the eternal harmony of man and nature. All works of Victoria Jasinskaite-Bobina are extremely transparent and light-coloured, they are optimistic, radiate joy and positive emotions, invite to see light and love and claim the fullness of life. The creative work of the author is inspired by love for people, nature and the spiritual world.
In the exhibition, the painter presents works whose titles signal the bright side of life and which wish to convey an optimistic message to the viewer of the exhibition: “The Angel’s Wing”, “The Autumnal Blossom in the Flutter”, “Love among Blossoms”, “Spring in the Flutter of Blossoms”, “It feels like the time has stopped”, The Meadow of Happiness, “The Meadow of Love and Peace” and others.
It is gratifying that the Business Park “Aušra”, located in the very heart of Kaunas city, is friendly not only to its established and successful companies, but also to the city residents and guests.
We invite you to visit the Art Zone, where Viktorija Jasinskaitė-Bobina’s personal painting exhibition “Gentleness” is on display. In the future, there will be more exhibitions of other artists in the Art Zone.
Visitors are welcome every working day (I-V) from 9:00 am to 18:00 pm, at Vytauto Ave. 23, Kaunas.
Organizers of the exhibition: Public Institution “Gabrielė’s Art Gallery” and Business Park “Aušra”.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
The first personal painting work exhibition of Daiva Kupstienė “The Subtitles of Rain”.
At the Kaunas Culture Center (79 Vytauto Avenue), on 14 February, at 05:00 PM, there will be an opening of personal painting work exhibition of the painter Daiva Kupstienė “The Subtitles of Rain”. The painter Daiva Kupstienė lives and creates art in Kaunas. In 1977-1988, she attended the 27th Kaunas Secondary School and in 2007-2011, the painter attended the A. Martinaitis School of Fine Arts. Currently, Daiva Kupstienė is developing acquired knowledge at the painter’s Antanas Obcarskas study “Antaniniai ob”. She is not only a painter, but also organizer of exhibitions: the painter has participated and organized four group artists’ exhibitions in Lithuania and London, organized seven plenary sessions of artists and three plenary sessions in Sweden. The abstract landscape genre is the most closest for the painter. For D. Kupstienė the landscape is not only a view, it is a distinctive and exceptional artistic language of each painter, because each painter interprets the landscape genre and presents it in his or her own style. In the exhibition, the painter presents the cycle of different abstract landscapes. D. Kupstienė is an exceptional colorist, she likes a wide gamma of colors and shades, contrasts; in the abstracted landscapes we will not find real motives or fragments of nature motives, however, the most important feature of her works is the emotional expression of color and form, game and enjoying the created artistic view. Decorative lines, color tones and half tones, sense of expanse and subtle expression dominated the landscapes of the painter. Her works immerses the viewer in to a mysterious, mystic world of the painter’s created images. The works presented in the exhibition distinguish themselves by the integrity of style, composition and form. As well as by drive, which does not leave anyone indifferent.
The exhibition will be open until 11 March. The organizers of the exhibition: Kaunas Culture Center and Public Institution “Gabrielės meno galerija”.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
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Photography exhibition “Paintings of Photography” of Valentinas Jankauskis, who is a photographer.
The photography exhibition of Valentinas Jankauskis, who is the photographer, will be opened at REMIS TATTOO Gallery (Daukšos g. 16-15) on the 31st of January, at 5 P.M. The author of the exhibition lives and creates in Tauragė and Kaunas. While he was studying at school, he was an active participant in art competitions and he has won various prizes. Valentinas Jankauskis studied photography in Kaunas in 2017 and attended composition courses at Kaunas College. He studied photography with such teacher-photographers as Jonas Danielevičius, Regimantas Meilutis, and Kristina Meilutė. The author has organized seven personal exhibitions of paintings. Valentinas Jankauskis, a photographer, came to photography from painting. This is the first solo exhibition of photography by Valentinas Jankauskis. This photography exhibition is also a start for the artist in the field of photography. In this exhibition Valentinas Jankauskis presents non-standard highly artistic photographs.
The first solo exhibition of photographs includes photographs not yet exhibited, and a series of photographic images entitled “Paintings of Photography” created during the period of 2017-2018. The author will present 15 abstract photography stylistic works printed on canvas. The author focuses on the ornamentation of photographs through nuances of content and form, color experiments, symbols. Valentinas Jankauskis’ photography style is constantly changing. The author is experimenting with techniques, blurring of images, refinement of abstraction, his artistic experimental photography is distinctive, and colorism is distinguished by variety and contrast. With the help of computer technology, the photographer combines photography with graphic and painting art.
Abstract visual images in the work of Valentinas Jankauskis are very individual, vivid, and grow into signs that combine the landscape, mood and emotion, and cultural associations. This type of photography becomes an artist’s distinctive creative feature. In the work of Valentinas Jankauskis, the photographic idea is expressed through colors, transformed and often deformed images, and the visual contacts of those images. In the abstract photographic plane, details, signs, grow into symbols, emotions, create a visual narrative that can be related to the existential state of modern person, his feelings, reflection, and feeling of the global world. Valentinas Jankauskis’ abstract photographs are dominated by thematic variety of works, complementary, and extending motifs. The harmony of artistic, photographic forms, and colors takes us into the zones of philosophy, mysticism, and mystery. Frequent photography invites the viewer to dialogue and takes them into a certain meditative state.
In the series of photographs “Paintings of Photography”, the author consciously emphasizes the contact between photography and painting, the color texture, and focuses on photographic scenes and intermediary narratives that do not leave indifferent, involving in the process of color, reflection, mystery, and pleasant discovery.
Valentinas Jankauskis’ photographs combine techniques of drawing, painting, engraving, computer graphics, and photographic editing. The exhibition will be open until the 7th of March.
Organizers of the exhibition: REMIS TATTOO Gallery and Public Institution “Gabrielė’s Art Gallery”.
The information was prepared by Gabrielė Kuizinaitė, art critic.
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Personal painting exhibition of the painter Janina Audra Fiserienė-Toleikytė “While Chasing Time”.
In the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, in Latvia (Rūpniecības iela 24, Riga), on 28 January, at 06:00 PM, the personal painting work exhibition of the painter Janina Audra Fiserienė-Toleykytė “While Chasing Time” will be opened. The author lives and creates in Kaunas. She became interested in art since childhood. On 15-05-2017, she for the very first time visited the fine arts studio of the known painter Gintaras Zubrys. For a year, Janina Audra Fiserienė-Toleikytė actively attended the training sessions. For half a year, she worked only with a pencil, later, she began painting still-lives. On 03-01-2018, she painted a scenery at the Botanical Garden. Currently, she paints independently. In 2018, the painter was admitted to the Lithuanian Folk Art Union. Recently, she has organized personal exhibitions. She cooperates with SE “Gabrielės meno galerija”. In the Summer of 2018, Janina Audra Fiserienė-Toleikytė participated in the plenary of painters.
The creative motto of the painter: “Something always seems impossible until you do it”.
The author has chosen the genre of scenery, which is predominant in her creations. While painting the sceneries, the artist discloses her view towards nature, nuances the colors and shades, tries to uncover the harmony of nature and the idyll of the ever changing seasons. The sceneries created by J. A. Fiserienė-Toleikytė are not static, the author highlights and uncovers the expression of the nature’s landscape and the unpredictability of the sea elements. It is very important for the author to record the forest, lake or the area of the sea lighted by the morning light or sunset. Quite photo-realistic, however at the same time symbolized imagery of nature transfers the viewer as if to another reality, which is created by stopping the time, giving meaning to the beauty of nature and creating the inseparable link between the nature and man. The works of the painter captivates with precise manner of execution and the idyllic romantization of the scenery, which was not touched by time, it invites the viewer to again look back, look around and see the beauty of the forest, sea and landscape, and to feel the fullness of the nature. The exhibition will be open until 15 March. The organizers of the exhibition: The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Latvia and SE “Gabrielės meno galerija”.
The art researcher Gabrielė Kuizinaitė prepared the information.
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Personal-retrospective exhibition “Dream Vision” by photographer Robertas Misiukonis.
On the 17th of January, 2019, at 5 P.M. at Kaunas Culture Center (address: Vytauto pr. 79) a personal-retrospective photography exhibition of Robertas Misiukonis, who is a photographer, will be held. Robertas Misiukonis, a photographer, is an artist of Kaunas city. Since 1981 he is a member of the Union of the Lithuanian Art Photographers. In 1984 he graduated from Kaunas Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 1976 he founded Kaunas Polytechnic Institute-FOTO club. Until 1984 he was the chairman of the board. And since 1986 he has become artistic director of that club. From 1991 to 2014 he was the head of the Kaunas University of Technology-FOTO studio. Since 2013 he is working as a photography teacher at Kaunas School of Applied Arts and is the project manager of the workshops “Už rėmų”. During the implementation of this project, meetings with well-known photographers are taking place. Since 2015 he has been cooperating with the public institution “GabrieleGallery”. He organizes solo exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.
Robertas Misiukonis, a photographer, presents an unprecedented retrospective-personal photography exhibition “Dream Vision”. Robertas Misiukonis, a photographer, in his retrospective photography exhibition “Dream Vision”, presents photographs from different periods using different photographic techniques and technologies. This new series of photographs uses infrared, pinhol, studio cameras, manipulation, special filter magic. The photographs of the exhibition are subtle, sensitive, combining natural motives, details of the environment, and in his frequent work the author uses a doubled image, when a portrait of a woman, an act of a woman, is presented in the foreground plan and in the background plan. There are quite a few images of nature created at different times of the year. Often captured images of the native Kaunas are presented in single or double shots. Unexpected juxtapositions, a nuanced perspective, and a color tone that gives photography the impression of surrealistic photography are the hallmarks of these photographs. Robertas Misiukonis presents a photograph depicting the dynamics of emotional survival and thought, in which the fragment of dream vision or the reality of the day and its coherence are symbolically revealed through the narrative. Photographs often evoke allusions with directorial photography. The exhibition will be open until the 13th of February.
Gabrielė Kuizinaitė, art critic
Fragment’s from Robertas Misiukonis exhibition photo by Gabrielė Bilčiūtė
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Opening of photography exhibition “Views of Vilnius” and lecture of Saulius Paukštys, a famous photographer, in Kaunas
The opening of the personal photography exhibition “Views of Vilnius” of Saulius Paukštys, renowned photographer, and a lecture on photography techniques by Van Dyke Brown will be held at the Lithuanian Education History Museum (Vytauto pr. 52) on the 10th of January at 4 P.M. Saulius Paukštys lives and creates in Vilnius. In 1987 he graduated from Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Automation, and acquired a degree in engineering. Pretty early Saulius Paukštys became interested in photography. He is a member of the Union of the Lithuanian Art Photography and has held several exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. In 2007, Saulius Paukštys founded the photography studio “Fototeatras” and is still its manager. At the exhibition, the author will present 20 pieces of photographs from the traveling series of photographs “Views of Vilnius”. This entire photography cycle consists of 50 pieces of photographic images, and the series is constantly supplemented with new photographs. In his photographs, the author captures the historic spaces of Vilnius, the courtyards of the Old Town, using ancient nineteenth-century techniques that bring history and the present closer together, and mystify the architecture of Vilnius. Saulius Paukštys describes his cycle of photographs “Views of Vilnius” as follows: “Using the old Van Dyke Brown photographic technique, it produces images that are very textured, subtle and expressive. Each such print is unique. Architectural compositions look remarkably impressive – the contrasts of the architectural elements and the shadows of the textures of the multi-dimensional structures are highlighted. It is a kind of alchemical time machine model, several doses of Užupis images, where the ancient technology of the past intertwines with the moments of the present. It constructs a unique image that has both a cartridge of historical action and the fact of the unique time conspiracy of the present testimony which is inherent in photography. This very process of printing photographic images means that each print is unique. Paper texture brings the printed image closer to the graphic than to the photography”.
We invite you to explore and admire these almost century-old images of Užupis and its mysterious marks, subtleties of textures and shades. The exhibition runs until the 30th of January.
The works of the author are for sale. Contact Gabrielė Kuizinaitė, art critic, on mobile phone: 8-676-12745
Organizers of the exhibition: Lithuanian Education History Museum and Public Institution “Gabrielė’s Art Gallery”.
The press release was prepared by Gabriele Kuizinaitė, art critic.
Fragment’s from photographer Saulius Paukštys exhibition
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Painter Rūta Levulienė’s personal painting exhibition “Stages”
From November 22, the painting exhibition “Stages” by painter Rūta Levulienė will be in the exhibition and concert hall of the Jurbarkas Regional Museum. Tapytoja R. Levulienė holds personal exhibitions and is actively involved in group exhibitions and plein-airs from 2014. Famous teachers such as painter Antanas Obcarskas, Violeta Juodzevičienė and the artist Lukas Kalmogercovas influenced the work of the artist. Since the year 2018, the painter R. Levulienė studies at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Kaunas Faculty, a painting specialty. Painting artist Rūta Levulienė presents a personal painting exhibition “Stages” consisting of two parts from the early and middle stages at Jurbarkas Regional Museum. The first works of R. Levulienė are distinguished by informative content – it is like a message that the author wishes to convey to the viewer. Her work in colorful and emotional-abstract paintings is important for the artist to convey emotions, feelings and perceptions. Also, the painting process is important for the artist, when the geometrically different form of rhythm is unevenly incorporated into the picture space. In this way R. Levulienė broadcasts a story transmitted by the colors from the picture. In the early works of R. Levulienė, not only a symbol but also a metaphorical language is important. The author’s paintings are not solid, they consist of several styles, themes and different scenes. One group of paintings is dominated by abstract painting landscapes, in other decorative and abstract images that are composed of different themes. The artistic narrative of each painting is enhanced by a bright red color, as well as blue, green, yellow and other colors in almost every single painting. The work of the author is unique in his own story, in the form and line of rhythm, in neutrality. At the exhibition, R. Levulienė presents the following early paintings: “Oblivion”, “Broadcast”, “Overload”, “Improvisation of the Still Life”, “Birthday”, “Whim” and others. In another part of the exhibition, painter R. Levulienė presents the middle period of his creative work – the green stage. The author is often looking for inspiration in nature, so the exhibition presents a cycle of landscapes and new paintings: “This Day”, “Four Powers”, “Game”, “Landscape”, “Last Winter Day” and “Expectation”. From the very beginning of his creative career, the painter R. Levulienė turned to abstract painting. R. Levulienė is looking for inspiration in the latest cycle of inspiration in nature, the motif of the detail of the plant’s landscape, its fragment, becomes the basis of improvisation in the works of artists. In the newest cycle of paintings, paints are of paramount importance for the transition of adjacent to each other, the nuance of colors and shades, the continuity of abstract forms. All this creates mood swings and emotional aspects of natural reflection. The latest author’s painting cycle is dominated by green, yellow, brown, blue, red, and their parallels. R. Levulienė’s cycle of landscapes is dominated by extremely expressive, but at the same time united, and harmonious stylistics of paintings. All these paintings presented at the exhibition are united by the intriguing and at the same time poetic, philosophical names of paintings, the play of similar and, at the same time, different colors. The organizers of the exhibition are Public institution “Gabrielegallery“ and “Jurbarkas Regional Museum“. The exhibition will be open until December 15.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from painter Rūta Levulienė exhibition:
Photographer Iridijus Švelnys presents photo exhibition “Old Towns of Lithuania from a Different Angle”
From the 2nd of November, the photo-artist Iridijus Švelnys will take a photo exhibition “The Old Towns of Lithuania from a Different Angle” at Business Park “Aušra“, Art Zone. I. Švelnys will present eleven large-format photographs at the exhibition. This is a story about Old Towns in Lithuania. The author of the large-format photographs captures the old townships of Kaunas, Šiauliai, Kedainiai, Klaipėda and Ukmergė. Photographer Iridijus Švelnys lives and creates in Kaunas. He studied radioelectronics at Kaunas University of Technology, then a master’s degree in ISM Management. In 2018 at the Photography Institute in New York, graduated from photography studies. Photographer Iridijus Švelnys has already organized 35 exhibitions: in Lithuania, Germany, London, Spain. I. Švelnys presents the following photographs: “Gentlemen and Ladies”, “Neighbors”, “The Eye View”, “The Bird”, “Star”, “Neighbor”, “Giant”, “Bridges“, “Flight“, “Imprisoned“, “Hell’s Gate“, “Duet“. I.Švelnys emphasizes his creative triad: photography, psychology and philosophy in his presentations and opening exhibitions. By taking pictures of the Old Towns of Lithuania, the author chooses an unexpected angle, emphasizing the moment of surprise, using the non-traditional “fish eye” shooting technique, experimenting with photography by pressing on a glass plate. I. Švelnys uses the language of symbols and metaphors in the city’s expressions. Philosophical and ironic metaphor language. The concept of presentation of a smart city is presented in a geometrised circle, which allows the viewer to see the image at an angle of 180 degrees. The image of the Old Town is framed by the symbol of the broken star. Speaking about his work, photographer Iridijus Švelnys states: “Photography is a visual mean to feel and represent the concept tens of times faster than written in letters. Philosophy is my aspiration. This is my ideal world that I will go through my work, my own actions, my challenges. Psychology is the third dimension that helps to feel and convey the emotional feeling to the viewer and insert it into the existing visual vision”Švelnys creates a non-traditional photography, the artistic narrative that he creates, combines and complements psychological and philosophical attention, gaining a distinctive aspect of the visual observation and psychological emotional experience that is striking in his exhibitions as well as in the photography album. The exhibition will be open until February 28. Exhibitors: Public institution “Gabrielegallery“ and Business Park “Aušra“.
Fragment’s from Iridijus Švelnys exhibition photo’s by Iridijus Švelnys
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
THOMAS WEIGEL – PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION “THE BOOK OF RESTLESS DREAMS”
On October 30th, at 17 o’clock, Thomas Weigel, a German historian, will present his personal photography exhibition “The Book of Restless Dreams” at the Library-Museum of Lithuania by Valdas Adamkus (S.Daukanto g.25, LT 44249 Kaunas). T. Weigel was born in Czechoslovakia, currently living and working in Berlin. He studied history at the University of Berlin (Freie Universität), in Portuguese and Spanish, and earned a Master’s degree. Since 2010, Thomas Weigel has participated in group exhibitions as well as contributing to the implementation of exhibitions and projects for his wife, textile artist Almyra Weigel. In 2010, Tomas Weigel was awarded Kaunas City Municipality Diploma, became one of the finalists and winners of the competition “Kaunas Day“ and “Idea for Kaunas“ by Kaunas City Municipality. The first photographs created by Thomas Weigel were exhibited at the Quadrennial 2014 – Painting on a Flag Stick in Vilnius.
Photographs exhibited at exhibition “The Book of Restless Dreams” captures the Lithuanian landscape. This is a series of black and white conceptual photography. The series of photographs consists of nine photographs, divided into three parts: “Children’s dreams”, “Dreams about the homeland”, “Dreams about the future”. Each photo of a photograph is accompanied by a short text commentary, which is either a quotation from a literary classic or a film for children, or an individual departure and arrival word for an airport electronic chart. On the one hand, these intertexts are like the framing of T. Weigel’s photographs, but at the same time it is a philosophical photography that stops the landscape fragment in a certain moment. In this photo, the image and text dialogue creates a certain tension and intrigue. Through it, T. Weigel’s photography presents existential questions, creating a symbolic language that causes the viewer to stop, think, and consider. All the dreams of “The Book of Restless Dreams” – like our dreams which intertwines the elements of speech and visual impressions, expressed in text fragments and photographs. The first cycle of “Children’s Dreams” uses the titles of popular children’s films in the Soviet times and quotations of children’s songs, they are written in Russian and represent allusions of the historical and cultural Soviet-era memory. The visual content of photographs capturing Kaunas natural images dissociates, creates a dialogue.
The “Dreams of the Homeland” cycle is quoted above the line of Adam Mickiewicz “Mr Tadas”. The fragments of this quotation are in Yiddish, Polish and Lithuanian. Thus, the fragmentation of the classical line is the contradiction between the concept of identity and the variety of photographic images that is being created, which forces one to rethink what is traditionally settled.The “Dreams of the Future” cycle focuses on the notes on the electronic chart at the Vilnius airport. They become the ironic motto of all three photographs, in a direction that directs the viewer not to a particular location, but to the space of inner reflections and dreams.Weigel’s conceptual exhibition is unconventional in the field of Lithuanian photography through its intertexts, an attempt to change the concept of identity and memory in artistic language. The author describes the essence of his series of photographs as follows: “Identities and reality are constructs that are created by human imaginationer’ and the power of the word. I try to express not only the emergence of these constructions and stereotypical efficiency, but also their characteristic crispness and illusions. Exhibition partner art gallery – “Golden Cut“.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from Thom Weigel exhibition photo’s by photographer Antanas Antanas Untydi.
Photographer Robertas Misiukonis‘s personal-retrospective photo exhibition “Dream Vision”
This year, on October 10th, at 5 pm, photographer Robertas Misiukonis’s personal-retrospective photo-exhibition “Dream Vision” will take place at Kaunas County Public Library (address: Radastų St. 2, 4th cc.). Photographer Robertas Misiukonis is an artist from Kaunas. Since 1981 he has been a member of the Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers. In 1984, he graduated from KPI Electrical Engineering Faculty. In 1976 he founded the KPI-PHOTO club. Until 1984 he was chairman of the board. Since 1986 he has become a club art director. Head of the KTU-PHOTO studio from 1991 to 2014. Since 2013 he has been working as a photography teacher at Kaunas Applied Arts School, and is the head of the Creative Workshop “Behind the Frames”. During the implementation of this project, meetings with well-known photographers are held. From 2015, he collaborates with the Public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. Conducts personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.
Photographer Robertas Misiukonis presents an unprecedented retrospective-personal exhibition of photographs “Dream Vision”. Photographer Robertas Misiukonis at the retrospective photographic exhibition “Dream Vision” presents photographic images created at various times, using different photographic techniques and technologies. This new series of photographs uses infrared, pinhol, studio cameras, manipulations, and special filter magic. The photographs of the exhibition are subtle, sensitive, connecting the natural motive, the detail of the environment, and the author uses a duplicate image in his frequent work, the first and second plan of which is a portrait of women, a female act. There are a number of natural images in the photographs created in different seasons. Often, pictures of the native Kaunas are captured in single or doubled frames. Unbelievable matching, nicer angle, color tone, giving the photo an impression of surrealistic photography magic, is an outstanding feature of these photographs. R. Misiukonis presents the dynamics of emotional survival and an image depicted in the thought, in which the narrative symbolically reveals a fragment of dream vision or day reality and their coherence. Photographs often produce allusions with directing photography.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from Robertas Misiukonis exhibition photographer Antanas Antanas Untydi.
Alvydas Šalkauskas‘s personal photography exhibition “Lithuania. Vanishing and reviving estates“
This year, on October 5, at 18 o’clock, photo exhibition “Lithuania. Vanishing and reviving estates” will be held by photographer Alvydas Šalkauskas (Aleksoto St. 6) at Thunder House-Museum. Alvydas Šalkauskas was born in 1958 in Molėtai, currently living and working in Šiauliai. In 1985 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Kazys Preikšas Pedagogical Institute of Šiauliai (now – the Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Šiauliai University). Since the graduation from 1993 until 1993, the work of the photographer was related to Šiauliai University. Since 1993 A. Šalkauskas is engaged in individual activities. Since 2004 he conducts photography lessons at Šiauliai Art School. He‘s a member of the Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers. A. Šalkauskas has organized 12 personal exhibitions, participated in 36 group exhibitions, various art events and plein-airs. He has been interested in photography since his childhood. Šalkauskas has been going around Lithuania and immortalizing 50 manors. The artist’s photography is interesting – not only for the documentary or cognitive function, but his photography also represents an area of architectural photography, which is important not only to aesthetics, but also to the context, the overall picture of photography. The photographs presented at the exhibition contain not only mansion facades, but also manor complex, natural environment, interior fragments, other buildings of the manor house, old and new relationship, beauty and authenticity of other unnoticed, unregistered architectural details.
Asked when he became interested in the manors, A. Šalkauskas says: “It was the time of studies when, along with Professor Pranė Dundulienė, along with the historians to go on an ethnographic expedition. Then I had to work with the historians. Clearly then it was a little different, everything needed to be painted: folk items, ornaments, patterns of fabric. Later, when I was working at a fine arts school for five years, we went to plein-airs with our colleagues, and at that time we became acquainted with the architectural monuments of Kelmė. Everyone in our field has been working: who has drawn, who pressed and who photographed. Well, from that, there was the thought of fixing these objects, their change, because it was possible to see how the object itself changes after some time slot. Well, and eventually it turned into a weekend ride and camera capture. We went with my wife, during the holidays, on weekends and we traveled to where, even half. This is how the material, which I represent in a small part of this exhibition, accumulated. There are still places to go and what to do”.
The most important cycles of Alvydas Šalkauskas’s photography series include: “Lithuanian manors”, “The game of light”, “Memories of the native village”, “Birthdays”, “Colleagues”, “For Vilnius”, “Under the sun sign”, “Through the flow of time”, panoramic photographic cycles “The Remnant of the Homeland Village”, “The Last Supper”.
The exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of Lithuanian statehood. The project of Lithuanian manors started to be implemented in 2010 and continues to this day. The exhibition invites you to get acquainted with the history of the manors painted in the photos, to discover and see their beauty, changes, and discover the unexpected details seen and captured by the artist, bringing them closer to the forgotten story.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from Alvydas Šalkauskas exhibition photo by Alvydas Šalkauskas:
Jeweler Nijolė Jovarienė’s personal jewelery exhibition “SOFT BEING OF METAL”
At Thunder House-Museum (address: Aleksotas st. 6) on September 30, at 12 PM, the jeweler Nijolė Jovarienė’s personal jewelry exhibition “Soft Being of Metal” will be held.
Nijolė Jovarienė is a German teacher in professional life. One of the forms of leisure time self-expression is the metal products manufacturer. In 2015, at Kaunas Applied Arts School, she received a diploma from the “Metal Handicraft Manufacturer” and organized an exhibition “Saint being”. N. Jovarienė‘s teacher, jeweler Egidijus Strackas, says that she is an artist with a unique concept and style, using new, informal working methods, adding to her original view the jewelers’ guild with works that can courageously align with the work of other creators are carried with love: “I hope that the artist will continue to be faithful to the chosen themes and will surprise us more than once with our new collections”.
The exhibition presents the latest works by the artist from the following collections: “Noble Heart”, “Pens on the Palm”, “Votai”, “Spoons Full of Welfare”, “Care”. The created jewelry comes alive with ancient, expressive, interesting details of its past. This is a timely journey, ancestor’s and grandfather’s watches, the prosperity of spoons newly, delicate improvisation: will those antique accents love their new space, the new artistic fantasy. Improvisation combines magic meditative effects, the burning enamel combines with pearls, crystal beads, metal lace and antique elements. The luxury of jewelry is expressed in fantasy and ancient accents. It should be emphasized that jewelry is created solely by hand, and is therefore archaicly rough. In the artist’s opinion, the perception of the quality of the jewelery is determined by the feelings it causes, and her extravagant creations claim that wearing individually designed piece decoration, she feels a unique spirit of antique details.
Speaking about her inspirations, the artist says: “A respectful attitude towards the whole of Creation, in the past, the journey through the museum – this is the most important for my work and is the greatest inspiration. I really appreciate the meaningfulness, originality and, most importantly, the creative process itself. I see beauty when I am looking for it, and creating emotional connection with the work, an ancient detail. I think that individuals who are interested in antiques are educated, intelligent, sensitive, attentive and respectful to the past, ancestors, history and true values”.
The artist is grateful to the art school’s professional teachers. The author is also grateful to the teacher jeweler Egidijus Strackas, the head of “Vilijampolė Art Center”, who encouraged her to work with enamel, to complete various concepts, to identify and discover her own style.
The exhibition will be open until November 23.
Exhibitors: Public institution „Gabrielėgallery“ and Thunder House-Museum.
The press release is based on the text of art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from Nijolė Jovarienė exhibition:
A look at painting “Art is my emotions“ by painter Valentinas Jankauskis
At the present time, in Jurbarkas Regional Museum, the exhibition and concert hall, there is a personal exhibition of paintings by young generation painter Valentinas Jankauskis “Art is my emotions”. The exhibition was already presented at Vincas Kudirka‘s Public Library, in Kaunas, in the Youth Art and Music Department, Pagėgiai Library Branches, Tauragė Culture Scene, Pagėgiai Frontier Units. He has graduated from Kaunas College of Painting, and has become a Class 8 student. Lives and works in Tauragė and Kaunas: he takes pictures and paints. In the personal exhibition V. Jankauskis presents paintings created in 2014-2018. Over the course of a few years, the works created are abstract stylistics. The works can be divided into the ideas, the realization and dissemination of the meaning, and the symbolic, metaphorical cycles, in each work, to look for deeper answers and meaning. A lot of attention in V. Jankauskis’s work is devoted to color nuance, decorative and variety, and artistic composition. The stylistics and coloring of each painting are varied, constantly changing and developing. The artist constantly emphasizes the importance of emotion when it comes to his work, which is included in the name of the exhibition. Emotion dictates artistic solutions, as well as determines and improvises the expressive language of the work and colouristic. Through the geometrised forms, details V. Jankauskis expresses his own concept of the world, in a frequent work of the painter, attention is paid to creating and purifying lines, uniforms and colors.
Emulating pulsating works, expressive shapes and details, sufficiently bright, non-shadowed colors, their contractions and contrasts are expressive in their visual dynamics, framing at least some meanings for their own viewers, creating a united but distinct world in which mysticism exists, is not a mystery, and at the same time the fullness of the inner and outer world, the diversity of the world, its spectrum of change, which is always marked with a sign of emotion and certainty.
Looking at the of V. Jankauskis, the theme diversity of his works is astonishing. His work combines abstract stylistics as a tool for artist’s improvisation and constant search. Using various means of expression and their help in creating individual symbols, the painter presents artistic narratives dominated by transformed natural motifs and their interpretations. The exhibition will be open until October 16. Exhibitors: public institution “Gabrielegallery“ and “Jurbarkas Regional Museum“.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from Valentinas Jankauskis exhibition. Photo’s by Valentinas Jankauskis.
This year, on September 11th, at 17:30, the opening ceremony of painting exhibition “My world“ by painter Sigitas Orantas-Sausis will take place at Kaunas City Municipality’s Public Library of Vincas Kudirka (address: Laisvės al. 57). Sigitas Orantas-Sausis lives and works in Kaunas. He studied Art at A. Martinaitis‘s Art School, he is a folk artist. Exhibitions have been taking places from 2014. This exhibition presents his work for the 2014-2018 period. The painter is constantly looking for new topics, experimenting with shapes, and improvising color combinations. This determines that the work of the painter is constantly changing. Each world reflected in the work of S. Orantas is expressed through a variety of colorful paintings, oriental forms, minimalist geometrizations, and overlapping stylistics. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Kazys Simonis, Claud Monet influenced the artist’s work, fragmented works of these authors reveal interdisciplinary works.
The works of Sigitas Orantas-Sausis are characterized by a clear composition, decorative, repetition of the motives of different cultures. The natural motive comes from an abstract image, which undoubtedly inspires emotion, mood and uncertain, expressive forms, which are well reflected in the diversity and dynamics of coloristics. One of the most important symbols of the artist’s work is the mandala, which is both the composition of the work, and the way of artistic self-expression, which embraces the perception of the world and its expression in creativity, which helps to find the inseparability of artistic form and spiritual harmony. At the exhibition Sigitas Orantas-Sausis presents his latest works: “The Spring Wings”, “Near Neris”, “Roads and Little Roads”, “The Story of the Rabbits”, “The Starry Song”, etc. Names of works are poetic, literary, associative, raising allusions with Lithuanian folklore, symblinetic and oriental traditions.
Painter Sigitas Orantas-Sausis will read his verse during the opening, saxophonist Aleksandras Lakšmanas will perform jazz improvisations. The exhibition will be open until October 11.
The organizers of the exhibition are Public institution “Gabrielegallery” and Kaunas City Municipality‘s Public Library of Vincas Kudirka.
Fragment’s from painter Sigitas Orantas-Sausis exhibition photographers Antanas Antanas Untydi and Vigmantas Balevičius.
Famous Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė‘s exhibition “Memory” in Estonia
This year, on September 5th, the opening ceremony of exhibition “Memory” of famous textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė will take place at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Estonia (address: Uus 15, EE 0100). The exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of Lithuanian statehood. This is a traveling exhibition. Marijona Sinkevičienė’s works combine textile and modernity. At the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Riga, M. Sinkevičienė presents “Memory” tapestries exhibition, which is associated with Lithuanian nationality signs, the tradition of national fabric, January 13th events.
“The purpose of this creative work is to understand Lithuania’s historical memory in order to convey Lithuania’s path and determination and preserve global values. Conveying the deep textile traditions of our nation in the conceptual form of the work. The core of this work is historical memory. To present to the public of Lithuania as a document of our nation, which always reminds that Freedom has its price, which is flooded with the blood of heroes, to develop social citizenship, especially for young people, future generations“, told author of the exhibition M. Sinkevičienė.
The author of the tapestries presented at the exhibition on various occasions hears the lines of the Lithuanian anthem, song, “Lithuania dear”, as if playing with their fragments, appeals to the memory of every Lithuanian, memory of national identity and self-esteem. In other tapestries of the exhibition, M. Sinkevičienė improvises ornaments and colors of traditional folk writing, modernizes them, invites in contemporary textile language a dialogue about historical memory and its change.
Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė was born in Tauragė region, lives and creates in Kaunas. In 1971, at Kaunas Stepas Žukas Applied Art Technique, she acquired the specialty of modeling-designing of clothes. In 1976-1982 she was studying at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and acquired a textile specialty. She worked as a lecturer at Kaunas College, later became an assistant professor. Since 1987, M. Sinkevičienė has been a member of Lithuanian Artists’ Union. She belongs to the Textile Artists Group “We Are”. Participates in group exhibitions, organizes personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. The artist participates in plein-airs, creative workshops, textile projects.
The works of M. Sinkevičienė have been acquired by Polish, Gdynia, Krosna, Lithuanian Art Museum, National M. K. Čiurlionis Museum, Raseiniai Region Historical Museum. The textile works have been created by the author for National Drama Theater of Kaunas (1986), a series of five tapestries “Seasons (1987)” has been created for Ukrainian Slavičius‘s kindergarten-nursery. Exhibition of M. Sinkevičienė at Lithuanian Embassy in Estonia will take place till October 20. Exhibitors: Public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“ and Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Estonia.
The press release is based on the text of the exhibition curator Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from Marijona Sinkevičienė exhibition
Insights from a philosophic Lithuanian photographer on New York’s streets
Tomas Pabedinskas
On July 31, at 17 o’clock, the exhibition of photography “I LOVE NY” will take place at the Museum of Lithuanian History of Education, which will host the photo exhibition of photographer Iridijus Švelnys. The author of this exhibition introduces a wide spectrum of spectators to the now unknown street photographer. The exposition will showcase the black and white New York streets routine and the bright images of human characters that have been met there, which puts the viewer’s eyes at the familiar symbols of this metropolis rather than the real life in it.
Švelnys has organized many personal exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. The photographer has exhibited different series of his works: the “fish eye” lens captures the images of the old towns (“Old Towns of Lithuania”), the transformed landscapes (“Trees’ graphics”), aesthetized photographic studies of the naked body of the human body (installation “Restrictions aspect”), an interdisciplinary creative project with young photographer Gabija Riaubaitė (“Migraine“) and others. Despite the diversity of motifs and themes of photographs, the author’s style of I. Švelnys was consistently disseminated in them – the well-thought-out urban compositions of the image of nature and the natural environment or the body language of people who specially focus on photography express the generalized metaphorical meanings.
Such a creative method and an attempt to express the philosophy of his life in the image language I. Švelnys is more closely associated with the long-lasting artistic traditions of art, photography, and the role of the “hunter” of the current moment of a photographer’s decisive moments. In the works of the past, the author revealed himself not as the most expressive moments in the life of a natural life, but as the “director” and the aesthetist of scenes of photography, not afraid to transform the images of the usual reality in the photos that are not recognizably transformed.
However, in the New York series, I. Švelnys is testing a whole other area of photography. It would seem that the original idea and the method of its implementation, and in particular the creative results presented to the viewer, are completely different here than in the previous works of the author. In this case, the beginning of the creative process is not the photographer’s imagination, but the surrounding reality and often chaotic flow of the city life. In this context, the role of the author himself is changing – without the ability to think and put together the future shot, he must rely on intuition and make an instant decision on what and how to capture the photo. The photograph, as claimed by the British art critic John Berger, is primarily an art of choice: “The photo is the result of a photographer’s decision that it is worth capturing the fact that an event or object was seen by him. If everything that is there is constantly photographed, each photo becomes meaningless”. These remarks are especially true in the context of street photography – all the creative action here, in essence, fits into an instantaneous photographer’s decision to capture one or another moment of life.
So what moments do I. Švelnys chose to commemorate and how does it fit into the final creative result that the author invites to rate to the exhibition? This time the artist follows the direction of photography, which formed just where his new series of photographs was created – on the streets of American metropolitan areas. In 20th century, in the 1960s and 1970s, American photographers roamed down the streets of the cities, immortalized their chaotic life, social contradictions, alienation of people, and sometimes even existential drama. Such a photographer’s attitude was conveyed by images of “real” life that did not meet the usual technical and aesthetic quality requirements, and their uncertainty of meaning became an integral part of the street photography of the United States.
Similarly I. Švelnys looks at New York. In his works, the dynamism of street life is conveyed by motion-based “spills”, while multi-layered compositions not only target visual puzzles but also multiply the meaning of the image to infinity. Overlapping inscriptions, posters, banners, graffiti banners overlay the reality picture, simultaneously and visually compete with each other, and enrich the meaning of photography, preventing the viewer from confining himself to the finite, single-image interpretation of the pictures. The imperfection of real life, the drama, and, in turn, its unique charm help to reveal spontaneous, non-good-looking photographic rules, inclining compositions, inclined horizons and a large contrast of black and white photographs. All of this creates an impending, lively relationship with the life of New York’s immortal life, allowing the author to emotionally impudently convey the individual’s situation in an impressive setting in a metropolitan environment.
Still, having chosen a new genre of photography and unusual stylistics in the context of his current work, I. Švelnys uses this photograph to present philosophical insights that extend his earlier works. The author claims that while filming in New York, he wanted to draw attention to individual human constraints that exist even at the foot of the famous New York Statue of Liberty. “People here live permanently in boxes: they go to the shower in the morning, then go to work in the subway and spend the whole day at the office,” says the photographer, telling his impressions. Such restrictions are not limited to physical ones; they also determine the constraints of free choice and thinking. I. Švelnys “talks” with visual hints about such a contemporary human situation. The fast and rigorous rhythm of life today is like a cross, which everyone has to carry in an alienated metropolitan society – like a subway passenger who looks like a glittering cross in photography.
Thus, like his previous works, and the photos of New York streets, I. Švelnys fills symbolic meanings. Although this time they are not created by the author themselves, they are “discovered” in the daily life, but extend the possibilities for interpreting photography far beyond their direct, documentary content. The organizers of the exhibition are Public institution “Gabrielegallery” and “Lithuanian Museum of History of Education”.
Fragment’s from Iridijus Švelnys exhibition:
Personal exhibition of the painter Edmundas Kartanas “LOOKING FOR A SECRET”
At the moment, the third exhibition of painter Edmundas Kartanas “LOOKING FOR A SECRET” is taking place at AUŠRA Business Park (Vytauto St. 23). The young generation‘s painter Edmundas Kartanas was born in 1973 in Šiauliai. Since 2003 he has been living in Kaunas, currently living and working in Kaunas district of Vandžiogala. Painter E. Kartanas has been interested in painting and drawing from his childhood. He is a member of the group of adult painters of abstractionist painter Antanas Obcarskas. E. Kartanas not only organizes personal exhibitions, but also participates in group exhibitions. In his work, the painter has chosen abstract painting style, colorful and thematic variety. The artist expresses his thoughts through strokes, lines, colors. From 2015, the author collaborates with public company “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
The exhibition presents the painter‘s works created in 2017-2018. The artist’s collection already contains about a hundred works. In E. Kartanas‘s third solo exhibition “LOOKING FOR A SECRET“ the painter presents 14 paintings: “Old fisherman’s boat“, “Reflections”, “Stairs”, “Flashes“, “Depths”, “Stream”, “Between”, “Forest Secrets”, “Searching”, “Dream”, “Element”, “Cottage by the Waterfall”, “I’ll go to smoke”, “Cat’s diamonds or complicated love”. In every painter’s work, E. Kartanas’s abstract stylistics conceals a certain mystery, each work has its own history of creation. The painter’s diversity in his abstract narrative is from the subtle detail to the color, the variety of forms, the expressive and unexpected coloring dynamics. A frequent work of painting reflects a certain state, which is expressed through the natural detail, the architectural fragment, the observation of a situation or detail by an unusual turning point, the meaning of a detail of everyday life, or sympathy. Both their previous works and the exhibitions feature important signs and symbols that repeat themselves from time to time and create a strong emotional relationship with their viewer.
Speaking of his exhibition, he says: “In the imagination of the childhood I used to create all sorts of stories that allowed to go to the read books, to the seen movies, or to your imaginary world, where you can have or to solve the mystery. As growing up, those secrets gradually disappeared, mode of life, obligations, they ate energy and time allowing me to return to that childhood state. When I started to paint more and more to let myself go back to that childhood state, I‘ve joined a creator who creates the story and looking for a secret in the quest, I invite the viewer who, in his field of vision, making colors can also look for their secrecy. It is a very good feeling when your work leads to someone, some kind of emotion, takes you to some state or, conversely, awakens from your life and routine”.
All 14 exhibited paintings of E. Kartanas are united in their style, expressive narration linking reality and imagination, line, and its sequel, contour, and image ghosting, color and subtle nuances of artistic truth and the creative mystery. All this is marked with an artistic individuality. The exhibition will be open until the end of October 31. The exhibition organizers: public institution “Gabrielegallery“ and Business Park AUŠRA. Art critic – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from Edmundas Kartanas exhibition:
Exhibition “Memory” by Marijona Sinkevičienė, as well-known textile artist
This year, from the 10th of July, in Foreign Office of the Republic of Lithuania, the exhibition “Memory” by well-known textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė will be held. The exhibition has already been presented this year: at the Parliament of the Seimas, Vilnius City Hall, Kėdainiai Multicultural Center, Kaunas Art Gallery “Art Park”, Raseiniai Region History Museum, and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Riga.
Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė was born in Tauragė region, lives and creates in Kaunas. In 1971, at Kaunas Stepas Žukas Applied Art Technique, she acquired the specialty of modeling-designing of clothes. In 1976-1982 she was studying at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and acquired a textile specialty. She worked as a lecturer at Kaunas College, later became an assistant professor. Since 1987, M. Sinkevičienė has been a member of Lithuanian Artists’ Union. She belongs to the Textile Artists Group “We Are”. Participates in group exhibitions, organizes personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. The artist participates in plein-airs, creative workshops, textile projects. The projects of textile artist M. Sinkevičienė have been acquired by the Polish Gdynia, Krosno, the Lithuanian Art Museum, the Raseiniai Region Museum. The author of the textile works created the National Drama Theater of Kaunas (1986), the Ukraine -Slavish kindergarten-crèche, created the cycle of gobelmans “The Seasons of the Year” (1987).
Speaking about the creative process of her project, the textile artist M. Sinkevičienė states: “In my creative work, I try to implement topical issues related to the history of the nation, cultural heritage and traditions. Upon approaching the centenary of Lithuanian statehood, I wanted to understand Lithuania’s path in its creative work. All the more so because my family relates to the centuries-old historical events of partisan struggle, exile, January 13th. I personally took active part in the rallies organized by the Movement. On January 12, I was in charge of the Chamber of Parliament of Lithuania, listening to the songs that were performed in the people’s lips, the scenes that united the hearts of thousands of people for one common purpose or the will of Freedom. Therefore, she wanted to mark the centennial of Lithuanian statehood to create this “Memory” cycle of textile works.
The author of the tapestries presented at the exhibition on various occasions hears Lithuanian anthem song, “Lithuania dear”, as if playing with their fragments, appeals to the memory of every Lithuanian, national identity and feelings of Lithuanian self-esteem. The exhibition is presented by Public company “Gabrielegallery“. The exhibition will be open until 30 August. The exhibition curator is art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from Marijona Sinkevičienė exhibition photo by Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s personal photography exhibition “Tree Graphics” in Riga
In 2018, on June 27, at 6:30 pm, the opening ceremony of the personal photography exhibition “Tree Graphics” by photographer Iridijus Švelnys will take place at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Riga. Photographer Iridijus Švelnys lives and creates in Kaunas. This year is already the 28th photo exhibition in Lithuania and abroad. The artwork of the photographer Iridijus Švelnys has already been presented twice in Germany and once in London. The author has been interested in photography for more than twenty years. Iridijus Švelnys uses different photographic techniques and technologies to create artistic photography. He has produced a number of photographs using both traditional and digital photography techniques. Currently, the author is deepening his photographic knowledge at the Institute of Photography in New York, as well as conducting various seminars and training on artistic themes. The following art critics have already written about the work of a photographer: doc. dr art critic Remigijus Venckus, art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė and others. Photographer Iridijus Švelnys presents an artistic story about trees at exhibition “Tree Graphics”. The exhibition presents photographs of modern photography compositions, the universal “framing” composition in an individual style. The author gives his works an opportunity not only to feel emotions, but also to understand the beauty of the nature of the dialogue. Trees are the symbol of longevity. By presenting the image of a tree through unexpected prism, the author highlights the variety of forms of wood, turning them into graphic images, thus creating a certain dialogue with their own viewer. The graphics of the author’s trees are very important. The photographer handles the tree through a certain form, insights, and philosophical observations.
Speaking about the series “Tree Graphics“, the photographer Iridijus Švelnys says: “The series of photographs “Tree Graphics” was created with the help of a “fish eye” lens. The lens, which sees an angle of 180 degrees, conveys an unusual image when our subconscious understands the figurative, but conscious thinking claims that this can not be the case. The viewer is forced to stop for a moment and try to figure out the issue of confrontation between the consciousness and the subconscious. Through the play of graphic lines to emotions, this is the main creative goal. Intelligent thinking, in search of perceptions and cognitive identities, interprets the image of photography in various aspects, allowing thinking to discover graphic lines of emotions that will remind us of childhood, life adventures, loss or discovery, trust, joy. Find a brother, family, close friend, father, mother, grandma, grandfather“.
In his photographs, the author seeks to convey the feeling that you are caught up in a tree, adhering to it, lying down after him, when the tree becomes a mediator between You and the sky, allows you to feel emotions that are not yet experienced, to restore peace and trust, to know yourself through identification with nature, discover within yourself “I”.
Exhibitors: Public institution “GabrieleGallery“ and Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Riga.
The exhibition curator – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Iridijus Švelnys exhibitions fragment’s. Photo by Iridijus Švelnys.
Photo-artist Iridijus Švelnys‘s personal photography exhibition “Tree Graphics”
On May 8, 2018, at 6 pm, the opening ceremony of personal exhibition “Tree Graphics” by photographer Iridijus Švelnys will take place in the lobby of the 2nd floor at Šiauliai University Library (address: Vytauto st. 64). Photographer Iridijus Švelnys lives and creates in Kaunas. This year is already the 28th photo exhibition in Lithuania and abroad. The artwork of photographer Iridijus Švelnys has already been presented twice in Germany and once in London. The author has been interested in photography for more than twenty years. Iridijus Švelnys uses different photographic techniques and technologies to create artistic photography. He has produced a number of photographs using both traditional and digital photography techniques. Currently, the author is deepening his photographic knowledge at the Institute of Photography in New York, as well as conducting various seminars and training on artistic themes. The following art critics have already written about the work of the photographer: doc. dr art critic Remigijus Venckus, art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė and others. Photographer Iridijus Švelnys presents an artistic story about trees at exhibition “Tree Graphics”. The exhibition presents photographs of modern photography compositions, a universal “framing” composition in an individual style. The author gives his works an opportunity not only to feel emotions, but also to understand the beauty of the nature of the dialogue. Trees are the symbol of longevity. By presenting the image of a tree through unexpected prism, the author highlights the variety of forms of wood, turning them into graphic images, thus creating a certain dialogue with their own viewer. Graphics are very important in tree photography of I. Švelnys. The photographer handles the tree through a certain form, insights and philosophical observations.
Speaking about the series “Tree Graphics“, photographer Iridijus Švelnys says: “The series of photographs “Tree Graphics” was created with the help of a “fish eye” lens. The lens, which sees an angle of 180 degrees, conveys an unusual image when our subconscious understands the figurative, but conscious thinking claims that this can not be the case. The viewer is forced to stop for a moment and try to figure out the issue of confrontation between the consciousness and the subconscious. Through the play of graphic lines to emotions, this is the main creative goal. Intelligent thinking, in search of perceptions and cognitive identities, interprets the image of photography in various aspects, allowing thinking to discover graphic lines of emotions that will remind us of childhood, life adventures, loss or discovery, trust, joy. Find a brother, family, close friend, father, mother, grandma, grandfather“.
In his photographs, the author seeks to convey the feeling that you are caught up in a tree, adhering to it, lying down after him, when the tree becomes a mediator between You and the sky, allows you to feel emotions that are not yet experienced, to restore peace and trust, to know yourself through identification with nature, discover within yourself “I”.
The exhibition will be open until June 15.
Exhibitors: Public company “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“ and Šiauliai University Library.
The exhibition’s curator – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from the exhibition photo’s by Gražina Pašakarnienė
Well-known textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė‘s exhibition “Memory” in Riga
From May 8, this year, the exhibition “Memory” by Marijona Sinkevičienė, a well-known textile artist, will work at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Riga. The exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of Lithuanian statehood. This is a traveling exhibition. Marijona Sinkevičienė’s works combine textile and modernity. M. Sinkevičienė, at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Riga, presents “Memory” – tapestries exhibition, which is associated with Lithuanian nationality signs, the tradition of national fabric, January 13 events.
“The purpose of this creative work is to understand Lithuania’s historical memory in order to convey Lithuania’s path and determination and preserve global values. Conveying the deep textile traditions of our nation in the conceptual form of the work. The core of this work is historical memory. To present to the public of Lithuania as a document of our nation, which always reminds that Freedom has its price, which is flooded with the blood of heroes, to develop social citizenship, especially for young people, future generations“, – told the author of the exhibition – M. Sinkevičienė.
The author of the tapestries presented at the exhibition on various occasions hears the lines of the Lithuanian anthem, songs, “Lithuania dear”, as if playing with their fragments, appeals to the memory of every Lithuanian, memory of national identity and self-esteem. In other tapestries of the exhibition, M. Sinkevičienė improvises ornaments and colors of traditional folk writing, modernizes them, invites in contemporary textile language a dialogue about historical memory and its change.
Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė was born in Tauragė region, lives and creates in Kaunas. In 1971, at Kaunas Stepas Žukas Applied Art Technical School, she acquired the specialty of modeling-designing of clothes. From 1976-1982 she studied at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and acquired a textile specialty. She worked as a lecturer at Kaunas College, later became an assistant professor. Since 1987, M. Sinkevičienė is a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union, belongs to the Textile Artists Group “We Are”. Participates in group exhibitions, organizes personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. The artist participates in plein-airs, creative workshops, textile projects.
The works of M. Sinkevičienė have been acquired by Polish, Gdynia, Krosno, Lithuanian Art Museum, National M. K. Čiurlionis Museum, Raseiniai Region Historical Museum. The textile works has been created for the National Drama Theater of Kaunas (1986), the Ukrainian Slavic for kindergarten-crèche has created a series of five tapestries “Seasons (1987)”.
M. Sinkevičienė‘s exhibition will be open until the 10th of June at the Lithuanian Embassy in Riga. The organizers of the exhibition – “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery” and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Riga.
The press release is based on the text of the exhibition curator Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Poster from M. Sinkevičienė exhibition
Painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė‘s personal painting works exhibition
From May 3, Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė‘s personal painting works exhibition will take place at Jurbarkas Regional Museum.
In the personal exhibition painter Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė presents her works of various periods, which are painted in abstract stylistics, but they can be divided into thematic ideological cycles, to look for their symbolic or narrative meaning. The artist invites viewers to their work, not only to listen to the painting story, but also to the dialogue.
Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė lives and works in Kaunas. She began painting more than 20 years ago, since then she also participates in the exhibition life: she conducts personal exhibitions, participates in group art exhibitions. Looking at the painter’s works of paintings, the stylistic and colorful diversity of her works is astonishing first of all. Her work is united by abstract stylistics, but it becomes only a means for the artist’s quest and improvisation and symbolic abstraction. From time to time she can see a stylized woman’s figure with a butterfly, hanging on her face; the elegant line of gray, black and red color contrasts highlights the basic images of man and the world, actualized the concept of aesthetic beauty. Frequently, Z. Tarasevičienė’s works reveal highly abstract landscapes or urban figurative fragments. However, in the works of this genre there are color consonants and contrasts, emotional visual representation, when abstract expression becomes very dynamic and does not fit in the definition of framed space. The connecting working element becomes a yellow line of lines, painted and linking all the elements of the painting work. The abstract piece of the author’s work includes art-works “In the rain”, the triptych “Autumn in the rain”, “This is such a dark abstract”, “Venetian carnival” shows not only a variety of works of genres, but also a certain amount of its creative work, dominated by violet, yellow, brown colors and shades.
The works “Colored Labyrinths”, “Life Labyrinths”, “Recollections” and others, which are exhibited at the exhibition, form a cycle dominated by abstraction, but also reveal some of the contours of human figures, architectural structures, vegetation. In these narratives, the story that emerges as a fog creates an inclination of uncertainty, melancholy, calm reading about passing time, past, and present, which enters this mysterious world and its viewer into this contoured, mysterious world. The exhibition will be open until June 16th.
Exhibitors: Jurbarkas Regional Museum and public company “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery”.
The press release was prepared according to the text of the curator of the exhibition by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
poster of Zita Virginija Tarasevičienė exhibition
From April 23, this year, the exhibition of photographers Dangirutė and Rimgaudas Maleckas “The Breakthrough of Photo-Graphics” will be held at the Foreign Office of the Republic of Lithuania (J. Tumo Vaižganto St. 2). This exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of Lithuanian statehood. The exhibition presents the latest works by the duet of the photographers created in recent years.
Photographer Rimgaudas Aleksandras Maleckas was born in 1934. He is one of the pioneers of modernist photography (photo-graphics) in Lithuania. In 1959 he graduated from Kaunas J. Gruodis Music School, and in 1982 he graduated from Vilnius University with a specialization of journalism. In 1963 he founded Kaunas Photoclub with other artists and for some time he was in charge. R. Maleckas is a member of Lithuanian Art Photographers’ Union Kaunas Branch. Currently he lives and creates in Palanga. R. A. Maleckas occupies an exclusive place in the context of Lithuanian photography. From the very beginning of his creative career, he chose an abstract modernist photography, in which abstract lines and shapes, white black play, help create metaphorical and multi-sensory imagery. R. A. Maleckas’s works were mostly influenced by the paintings of the great Western European artists P. Mondriano, P. Picasso, P. Klee at the beginning of the 20th century. E. A. Cukerman’s work, which inspired the photographer for abstract photographic expressions, forms of exploration, had the greatest influence on Lithuanian artists.
Dangirutė Ona Maleckienė, former resident of Kaunas, creates a similar technique. Her first works were published in 2007. In the weekly “Nemunas“, she illustrated the book by Kristijonas Donelaitis “The Year”, the books by journalist Kazys Požėra “Nubruktų dilgėlių žiponėlis” and “Georgian Ontology”. The couple of photographers have been participating in joint exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad for auctioning, publishing art albums. The works of the photographers are distinguished by stylistic and thematic variety: here we will find both landscapes and religious stories presented in abstract form and stylistics. They are dominated by signs and symbols that are evolving through duplicate imagery. Their photography creates, by means of visual language, existential philosophical insights, attempts to reconcile oppositions, seek spiritual reward. The composition of photographs is distinguished by completeness and harmony.
Most of the photographers works are called composites, they are in perfect shape, focusing on color contrasts, shadows, and texture play, all of which by creating endless harmony, a balance between reality and the global cosmic space. Both previous and current works by R. Maleckas are created without the use of any computer technology. Just in time, the artist discovered his own stylistics, which combined photography and art, it became his creative path.
In recent years, the photography exhibitions by Dangirutė and Rimgaudas Maleckas update the acquaintance with this fascinating, influential work of the founder of modern Lithuanian photography and his wife, while also allowing contemporary artistic experiments to be evaluated in the context of previous artistic discoveries.
The press release is based on the text of the exhibition curator Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Exhibition partner – Public Company “Gabrielė’s Art Gallery”. The exhibition will be open until July 1.
fragment from the exhibition poster
The photo exhibition “3“ of young photographer Indrė Bagdonė
On April 18 the opening ceremony of the photo exhibition “3“ of young photographer Indrė Bagdonė will be held at the Public Library of Vincas Kudirka at Kaunas City Municipality (address: Laisvės al., 57).
Young generation photographer Indrė Bagdonė was born in 1986, graduated from the media engineering studies at Kaunas University of Technology. In 2007, she started taking pictures. The first photographs were associated with the fields of Lithuania. Over time, the author began to increasingly capture the “invisible” beauty in every step, which is difficult to spot often in a rush, running. And photography is a good way to stop, see, feel and share.
When a young generation photographer Indrė Bagdonė created the autumn series, a more intimate acquaintance with photography took place on that day. Autumn photographs are created with a digital camera. The author caught a new wave of energy, along with a glimpse of the covered reflections. The first reflections are captured in the middle of the winter, in the middle of the forest, on a frozen stream of ice. In this way, a series of photographs “Ice” was born, later – a series of photographs “Pools”.
The author’s photo nickname “Capere Sensum” in Latin means “to catch the sense”. The photographer strives to convey the idea, the plot, to create a space for silent reflection, to tell moments of history. For example, photography series “Lagoon“, “Stones“ and “Yellow Water“ were captured in Juodkrantė in different seasons, but on the same waterfront, and tell different stories.
Indrė’s photographs have a deeper meaning and other emotions than the first look at them, giving them the name of the photo. It is not necessarily directly related to the depiction of the subject – it often broadens its perceptions considerably, spells about secret, frenzy, suggests a hint, as if giving the features of a photo novel.
The exhibition will be open until May 17. The organizers of the exhibition – Public Company “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. The curator of the exhibition – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
fragment’s from Indrė Bagdonė exhibition
From April 16 at Kaunas Culture Center, the Nation’s House, there will be performances by painter Raminta Ardzevičienė “Colored Pools”. “Colored Pools” is a new cycle of paintings by Raminta Ardzevičienė (born in 1983). The author – graduated artist from Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, participated in exhibitions since 2009.
In the “Colored Pools” exhibition, entertaining paintings with even more fun names (“Onka”, 2015). It’s like expressing personality emotions on canvas with a subtle surreal abstraction by telling stories pulled out of the depths of the subconscious, reality as if dreaming through deconstruction and re-putting into neat forms. Painting by R. Ardzevičienė is a “form of relaxation where one can be free, independent, real, with his own mood and thoughts that you are.”
R. Ardzevičienė, using surrealistic automatism, began to try to “turn off the mind and the logic, letting the forms and colors” to fall accidentally “without disturbing them, without attaching to the rules.” It’s like moving from a specific plot to abstraction and back. Her works – “It’s like subconscious puzzles merging and re-scattering, more state than specific thought” fixation. It is a colorful mood that moves into an abstract fairy tale without clear borders, without beginning and ending. The author is interested in the flow of a person’s subconscious mind, “what remains between words, between lines, is silenced and not told, the moment when the mind is muted, and only intuition or feeling remains, what is not tangible, inexhaustible, and not counted.”
Raminta Ardzevičienė reminds one of the most famous surrealist art contemporary artists Spanish painter Choano Miro (Joan Miró) works in the 20th century. The difference is only in the variety of colors and saturation and form densities. Her works, like Ch. Miro is saturated with the power of children’s expressions, and the naturalistic perception of space disappears in them. The artist develops an individual and immediately recognizable visual language, creating a world of freely expanding naive figures, plants and fairy tales. A smooth colored surface fills the entire crescent of small creatures, abstract and tangible shapes, sometimes forming recognizable objects. The shapes swell and bind each other, creating a vibrating storyline accurately and thoroughly (“Yellow City“, “Colored Pools“, “Forest“). In the paintings, the most important storytellers are bright colors, which rhythmically mix, creating anxious mood, joy, lightness and playfulness (“Beetle’s journey”, “Green”). Out of all the works displayed on the exhibition, the painting “My Neurons” (2017) stands out. In it, as if inspired by masters of abstract expressionism, the author expressively frames an emotional discharge, squeezing it directly onto the canvas…
Raminta Ardzevičienė‘s painting works – emotional and saturated with bright colors expressed in childhood purity, leaving the viewer an opportunity to tell an abstract fairy tale for herself. Just dare to fall in “colored pools.” The exhibition will be open until May 6. Exhibition partner – Kaunas Cultural Center “Nation’s House”.
The author of the text – art critic Vilma Valiukonienė
Fragment’s from Raminta Ardzevičienė exhibition
Exhibition of photographer Iridijus Švelnys and poet Nijolė Demereckaitė-Švelnienė “DUET”
On April 14, at 6:30 pm, the opening of exhibition “DUET” by photographer Iridijus Švelnys and poet Nijolė Demereckaitė-Švelnienė will take place at the Museum – House of Thunder (Aleksoto St. 6).
This exhibition is a creative duet of two different authors that is not set up, which is not intended for one another. It’s just the point of contact that the felling, work goes into a solid tandem, and strengthens one another, allowing them to achieve deeper emotional feelings of the soul. The authors travel on their own creative paths, they use special techniques, perceptions, and different human aspects of life. All this presents works transmitted through their inner experiences. A certain synthesis of creativity is formed, when the word complements the image and the image complements the word. While looking at and exploring the work, there is no need to consider whether photography was first created, and then the text, or vice versa … It can be assumed that both authors were looking for specific expressions.
The son’s photographs and the poems of the mother create a harmonious whole, speaking the image and the word about the world, the eternity of the moment, and the temporality, the present and the past. The relationship between the image and the word is constantly changing. The photograph becomes a symbolic illustration for the word, and the word supplements it – extends the image. Both photographs and poems create polysemantic dimensions, in which there is a bright emotion, a fixation of a survival moment, a mood flash. In verbal and visual miniatures, the outline of space and time, which defines a particular minimalized space, which combines the universality with which time is interrupted, becomes an integral part of yesterday and today, perhaps even tomorrow… The word and image return to constant values, calls to listen to the reference words, return home, at the source… So the photograph becomes a symbolic image: the doors of the abandoned homestead, the figures of a woman, and on the natural background, the shadow, the face. In poetry, the search for the word’s source, the minimalist flash of sensations.
The exhibition of creation work by N. Demereckaitė-Švelnienė and I. Švelnys and the meeting with authors, invites to travel to the world of photography and poetry, dialogue with art and self. Exhibition organisers „Gabrielegallery“.
The exhibition will be open until June 1.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from the exhibition
Exhibition “Time Shadows of time” by Turkish artist Cetin Erokay
The opening ceremony of exhibition “The Time of Shadows” by well-known Turkish artist Cetin Erokay will take place at Lithuanian Education History Museum (Vytautas prospectus 52) on April 10, at 5 pm.
Cetin Erokay lives and creates in Izmir, Turkey. He graduated with a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at Ege University. He attended lectures of drawing at professors – prof. Dr. Musid Icmeli and Mahmut Dincer, since he has enjoyed the arts, he continued to improve his skills. Since 1985, the artist has participated in exhibitions, art fairs and auctions. He has experimented with various contemporary art techniques. From 1970 to 2005, he lectured on public relations at the Faculty of Journalism and Public Relations at Ege University. In 1982, Cetin Erokay created a poster for the IV International Izmir Film Festival. He is also a graphic designer. C. Erokay was awarded the main prize at the Selcuh YASAR Festival for painting. In 1998 his graphic paintings were evaluated at the International New York Festival. The work of the artist was published in the book “The Best Works of the World”. His works were also exhibited at personal and group exhibitions in Vijan, Rome, Lille, Beijing, New York, Tbilisi, Portugal, Turkey and Lithuania.
He is a member of the Euro-Asian World Organization EWN in Vijin and chairman of Turkish branch. In 2013, C. Erokay was invited to Kuwait as Turkish citizen of honor and was responsible for the exhibition of contemporary art designed for Arabic Art Conference. He is an honorary member of the International Association IAF ANIMA MUNDI. In 2015, he participated in the Association’s exhibitions in Lithuania and Georgia.
At the exhibition, Turkish artist Cetin Erokay presents geometrised works of contemporary graphic design. Purified colors, clear geometry of shapes create aesthetic images by which the artist expresses his own concept of the world. The artist’s works focus on the creation and purification of a line, form, and color. Black, gray, blue colors and their shades highlight the area of the window to the world of metaphor, very often the artist’s work, an emotional relationship with the signs of the time and shadows. The mark and color are the basis of C. Erokay’s visual language, his center of work, which the author is nurtured by decorative shapes and his favorite colors. Many Cetin Erokay works repetitive geometrical square the principle of changing the visual nuances, color combinations, but retained their characteristic rigor, repetitive and window niches in the environment, the world, and perhaps to your inner self motivation. The changing color of the lines shows emotional scrolling.
The exhibition is sponsored by Turkish Embassy, the exhibition is organized by the Association IAF ANIMA MUNDI and the Public institution “Gabrielegallery“.
The exhibition curator – Zita Vilutytė.
The exhibition art critic – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from Cetin Erokay exhibition
Danguolė Brogienė‘s Personal Textile Exhibition “Colored Moments“
From February 28 the exhibition “Colored Moments“ by the well-known textile artist Danguolė Brogienė will work at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (J. Tumas-Vaižgantas str. 2). The author lives and works in Vilnius, she is a member of Lithuanian Artists‘ Union. From 1973 to 1977, she studied at Stepas Žukas Technological University of Kaunas, where she became a textile artist. In 1977-1982 she studied the modeling of clothing at the Department of Textile at the Faculty of Applied Arts of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Since 1982, she has organized 80 exhibitions: participated in biennials, quadrennials, group exhibitions. Since 1982 she has been teaching at VDA, is a professor. Since 1990 – member of the textile section of Vilnius branch of Lithuanian Artists‘ Union. D. Brogienė has created over thirty works of art for architectural spaces and interiors. The artist organized six personal exhibitions, participated in more than forty group exhibitions. Since 2002, she has been awarded the status of Artistic Creator. She is a member of Lithuanian Artists‘ Union “WE ARE“.
D. Brogienė‘s textile works are distinguished by geometrically shaped forms, a rich colorist expression, and Lithuanian and Baltic folklore variety of characters and symbols. In her abstract textile compositions, the author captures the harmony of the world and its dynamics by combining color nuances and textual textures by experimenting in rigid forms, but through them as though they are integrating the mystery of the world and the continuous existential circle of time, its recurrence and change. The artistic composition of a frequent artist‘s work through closed geometric planes and spaces becomes extremely open to the world of vision and dialogue with its spectator, which opens up the secret of fullness and harmony.
Speaking about the links between her creativity and tradition and the specific textile technology of her work, Danguolė Brogienė states: “My textile works are created using the original technique of silk wrapping in the plane. The decorative compositions have a special silk-shining vibrations and are characterized by precision color modeling and color harmony. The composition changes dynamically from daylight, artificial light and from the chosen viewing angle. The creative method is based on the geometric abstractions, the symbolism of Baltic and the ornamentation of Lithuanian folklore. (…) Zigzag-stepped line that creates all my textile work, author‘s technique, drawing – there is a sign in both, form and symbolism“. Of course, in square, stepped line and other geometric shapes, the textile artist brings a multifaceted and versatile visual image of the world, a constantly changing, vibrant, yet consistent concept of its tradition“. The exhibition will be opened until June, the exhibition‘s partner – public company “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from Danguolė Brogienė exhibition
Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė‘s Tapestries Exhibition “Memory“
In Vilnius City Hall on the 6th of February, at 5 pm, the opening ceremony of textile exhibition “Memory“, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Lithuanian statehood, will be held by textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė.
Marijona Sinkevičienė‘s works combine classical textiles and modernity. The works of the artist are quite diverse in their subject and textile technology. In Vilnius City Hall, M. Sinkevičienė presents Tapestries Exhibition “Memory“, which is associated with the signs of Lithuanian statehood, the tradition of national weaving, signs of sustainability of Lithuanian statehood, the 13th of January and other historical events of the state of Lithuania.
In the presentation of her exhibition, the author says: “The series of works displayed in the exhibition tells about the history of our nation, the events that Lithuania suffered: the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian statehood, the Independence of the 13th of January, and others. The works reflect the historical memory of Lithuania as the document of our nation, which always reminds us that Freedom has its price flooded with the blood of heroes and seeks to convey the path and determination of the nation to preserve global values“.
The author of the tapestries presented at the exhibition on various occasions weaves the lines of Lithuanian anthem, song “Lithuania dear“, as if playing their fragments, appeals to the memory of each Lithuanian, memory of national identity and self-esteem. In other tapestries of the exhibition, M. Sinkevičienė improvises ornaments and colors of traditional folk writing, modernizes them, invites in contemporary textile language a dialogue about historical memory and its change.
Textile Marijona Sinkevičienė was born in Tauragė, lives and creates in Kaunas. In 1971 she has get a specialty of designing clothes in Stepas Žukas Applied Art Technique in Kaunas. In 1976-1982 she studied at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, acquired a textile specialty. She worked as a lecturer at Kaunas College, later became an assistant professor. Since 1987 M. Sinkevičienė is a member of Lithuanian Artists‘ Union. Belongs to the Textile Artists Group “We Are“. Participates in group exhibitions, organizes personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. She also participates in plein-airs and creative workshops, implements textile projects. The works of M. Sinkevičienė have been acquired by Polish Gdynia, Krosno, Lithuanian Art Museum, National M. K. Čiurlionis Museum, Raseiniai Region Historical Museum. Textile works have been created at National Drama Theater of Kaunas (1986), the cycle of five tapestries “The Seasons of the Year“ (1987) has been created for the kindergarten-nursery in Ukraine Slavic. Exhibition of M. Sinkevičienė in Vilnius City Hall will be opened until February 28.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment from Marijona Sinkevičienė exhibition
Photographers Dangirutė and Rimgaudas Maleckas‘ exhibition “Photo-graphics That Does Not have Answers“
This year, from January 17, the photo exhibition “Photo-graphics That Does Not Imply Answers“ by photographers Dangirutė and Rimgaudas Maleckas is dedicated to the mention of the centenary of Lithuanian statehood in Jurbarkas Region Museum.
Photographer Rimgaudas Maleckas (born 1934) is one of the pioneers of modernist photography (photo-graphics) in Lithuania. In 1959 he graduated from Kaunas J. Gruodis Music School (directing), and in 1982 he received a VU journalist‘s specialty. In 1963, founded Kaunas Photoclub with other artists, he was the chairman for a long time. The photographer is also a member of Lithuanian Art Photographers‘ Union Kaunas Branch. The artist is currently living and creating in Palanga. For several years photographer Rimgaudas Maleckas, together with his wife Dangirutė Maleckienė, have been participating in exhibitions, auctions, and publishing art albums. Last year, a joint exhibition of artists‘ art was presented in Germany.
Former Kaunas‘s resident photographer Dangirutė Maleckienė creates a similar technique as her husband Rimgaudas Maleckas. The first works of Dangirutė Maleckienė were published in the press in 2007, in weekly “Nemunas“, she illustrated book “The Year“ by Kristijonas Donelaitis, Kazys Požėra‘s books “Nubruktų dilgėlių žiponėlis“ and “Georgian Anthology“.
The work of the photographers is distinguished by stylistic and thematic variety: from landscapes to religious stories, abstractions in which there are many signs and symbols, duplicate images that mark environmental contradictions. To the photographers‘ creation work there are inherent black-white play, unity of colors, lines of details, with the help of visual language, expresses existential philosophical insights, attempts to reconcile oppositions, seek spiritual balance. The composition of photographs is distinguished by completeness and harmony.
The exhibition‘s organizers – public company “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“, the exhibition‘s partner – gallery “Golden cut“. The exhibition will be opened until March 14.
The exhibition‘s curator – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Poster of Dangirutė and Rimgaudas Maleckai exhibition:
Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė‘s textile exhibition “Memory“
On January 17, in the III-th Palace of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, at 12 pm, will be the opening ceremony of textile exhibition “Memory“, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Lithuanian statehood, it will be held by textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė. The exhibition of M. Sinkevičienė will be opened in the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania until January 31. The guardian of the exhibition – the member of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania – Arūnas Gelūnas. The exhibition‘s partner – “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
Marijona Sinkevičienė’s works combine classical textiles and modernity. The works of the artist are quite diverse in their subject and textile technology. In Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, M. Sinkevičienė presents the Tapestry Exhibition “Memory“, which is associated with the signs of Lithuanian statehood, the tradition of national weaving, signs of sustainability of Lithuanian statehood, the 13th of January and other historical events of the state of Lithuania.
In the presentation of her exhibition, the author says: “The cycle of works displayed in the exhibition tells about the history of our nation, the events that Lithuania suffered: the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian statehood, the Independence of the 13th of January, and others. The works reflect the historical memory of Lithuania as the document of our nation, which always reminds us that Freedom has its price flooded with the blood of heroes and seeks to convey the path and determination of the nation to preserve global values“.
The author of the tapestries presented at the exhibition on various occasions weaves the lines of Lithuanian anthem, song “Lithuania dear“, as if playing their fragments, appeals to the memory of each Lithuanian, memory of national identity and self-esteem. In other tapestries of the exhibition, M. Sinkevičienė improvises ornaments and colors of traditional folk writing, modernizes them, invites in contemporary textile language a dialogue about historical memory and its change.
Textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė was born in Tauragė, lives and creates in Kaunas. In 1971 she has get a specialty of designing clothes in Stepas Žukas Applied Art Technique in Kaunas. In 1976-1982 she studied at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, acquired a textile specialty. She worked as a lecturer at Kaunas College, later became an assistant professor. Since 1987 M. Sinkevičienė is a member of Lithuanian Artists’ Union. Belongs to the Textile Artists Group “We Are“. She participates in group exhibitions, organizes personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. Also, the artist participates in plein-airs and creative workshops, implements textile projects. The works of M. Sinkevičienė have been acquired by Polish Gdynia, Krosno, Lithuanian Art Museum, National M. K. Čiurlionis Museum, Raseiniai Region Historical Museum. She has created textile works at National Drama Theater of Kaunas (1986), a series of five tapestries “The Seasons of the Year“ (1987) has been created for the kindergarten-nursery in Ukraine Slavic.
Fragments from the opening ceremony of the exhibition “Memory“ of textile artist Marijona Sinkevičienė at Seimas.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from Marijona Sinkevičienė exhibition “Memory”
Harmony of contrasts in exhibition “Contrasts of Life“
In gallery “Ars et Mundus“ (A. Mapu str. 20) on January 5th, at 6 pm, will be the opening of photography exhibition “Contrasts of Life“ by photographers Iridijus Švelnys and Gabija Riaubaitė.
The photographer Iridijus Švelnys and student Gabija Riaubaitė, in a joint exhibition of photographs “Contrasts of Life“, are matched by a couple of contradictions. Some of the contrasts of life and photography are named by I. Švelnys, one of the authors of the exhibition. According to the photographer, the exhibition brings together a particularly wide and narrow, detailed look at the world. These different views of photography have both a direct expression and a metaphorical, philosophical meaning. In the exhibition we see the so-called “fish eye“ lens captured by natural images and macro photography diptyches. I. Švelnys looks at the wide-angle view of the landscape, and G. Riaubaitė creates almost abstract macro compositions. Such optical solutions at the exhibition also present different perspectives on life: “It is sometimes enough to look at the problem more extensively so that it disappears, and sometimes it needs to concentrate and survive. These attitudes in life, as two equally opposite poles […]. So let’s look at these two poles, see the world as never before and at the same time deeply. Let’s get through these poles and our everyday life will be more versatile and more beautiful “, – I. Švelnys offers to the exhibition‘s viewers.
Photographs can also be seen in the other contradictions of the authors themselves. Black and white photographs of I. Švelnys represent a long tradition of artistic photography, in which the contrast of bright and dark tones, the black and white photo graphic drawing of the lines and the rhythm of the daily environment allow you to look at another glance and turn it into an object of aesthetic pleasure. It is usual to regard such a photograph as a projection of a “masculine“ sight – thoughtful, precise compositions and a tendency to give them a philosophical, aggregated content was the most important creative principle of many famous modern photographers in Lithuania and the world. In the works of G. Riaubaitė, the accents are opposite: color photography is never so close to reality as a black and white image, and emphasizes its materiality. In addition, the abstractness of young photographer’s works relates not so much to rational compositions, but to the intuitive fixation of matter. The intuitive relationship with reality and the immediate experience of material reality in the world of contemporary art are associated with “feminine“ creation. The latter adds to her personal disability experience, which she brings to her advantage and exceptional creative position – to take a deep and original look at the smallest details of our world. In the metaphorical sense, it is also a careful observation of the inner world, the most authentic experiences, until they are already named words and acquired recognizable visual representations.
Photographer I. Švelnys has organized 23 personal photographic exhibitions, 3 exhibitions have been presented abroad. To student Gabija Riaubaitė is the third photo exhibition she is oranizing with I. Švelnys.
The exhibition will be open until January 18th. Exhibition partner – public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
Press releases are provided in accordance with the information provided by “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
Fragment’s from Iridijus Švelnys and Gabija Riaubaitė exhibition photo’s by Aidas Augustis Penki Vėjai.
Leonora Kuisienė’s personal exhibition “Between dream and reality. Wolf’s Hour“
From the 20th of December, this year (on Wednesday), at Museum “House of Thunder“ (address: Aleksotas str. 6) has been working a personal exhibition of bookbinder Leonora Kuisienė “Between Dream and Reality. Wolf’s Hour“.
Bookbinder Leonora Kuisienė lives and works in Kaunas. She got acquainted with the artistic bookbinding during the studies of art pedagogy, studying the course of fine leather, plastic in 1998-1999. However, the deeper and closer form of bookbinding skills began to develop only ten years after graduation. It was influenced by a lively acquaintance in the United Kingdom with somewhat different bindings than those seen in Lithuania.
Since 2010 Leonora Kuisienė has been working in the field of artistic bookbinding. Since 2013 the artist have participated in the following group exhibitions: “Massive Hypnosis“ at festival “Stone of Devil“ (2013), Bookbinders Exhibition at Vilnius Books Fair (2014), Bookbinders Exhibition at International Applied Art Fair CraftVilnius (2016). In 2015 Leonora organized a personal exhibition “Doors“. The artist takes inspiration from reading books, listening to music, watching and communicating with people.
Wolf’s Hour – is the time between the end of the night and the dawn. It is the time when many people die. This is the time when most children are born. It’s the time when the sleep is deep and the dreams are the brightest. At that time suffering from insomnia person is frightened by fears and demons. It’s the time when the subconscious impulses that are obscured are freed and active, revealing to us our joy and sorrow, fears, expectations, passions, fantasies…
“Daytime experiences, informational luggage and their expression in dreams, intermingled into the single whole, is a metamorphosis of my, as an author’s, Wolf’s Hour, in which reality becomes dreams, and dreams become tangible, symbolically expressed, in reality. And the time between dream and reality is nothing more than a never-ending search for forms of expression, a creative process, an act“, – says the artist.
The main form of creative expression of the artist is the book-object and the book, in which the main thing is the fixation of thought, the process involving the viewer. The essence of the work (book) often consists of not traditional form of the object, not the opened book, but the very concept, idea, interpretation, experience. However, at the same time, the traditional material of the book, technology of leather covers processing remains the same. During the development of the new work, there are such stages of development as the raising of ideas, interest in previous works of similar subject, methodology, technologies, and all of this adaptation.
Thus, the fixation of thought and process, interfacing with traditional technologies and maintaining the development of the topic in book cycles at several levels, such as: philosophy, psychology, mythology, symbols, help to create an aesthetic, creative connection between the form of expression and the idea.
The exhibition will be opened till 5th of February.
The press release was prepared in accordance with the text of Leonora Kuisienė.
The organizers of the exhibition – „Perkūno namas muziejus“ and Public institution „Art gallery of Gabrielė“
Fragment’s from Leonora Kuisienė book’s exhibition photo by Deivis Slavinskas.
Painting and graphics exhibition “FROM THE HAND AND THE HEART“ of Gintaras Zubrys and Žydrūnas Šlajus
On December 13th, at 5 pm, in Kaunas State Philharmonic (address: E. Ožeškienė str 12) will be the opening of exhibition “From the hand and the heart“ of painter Gintaras Zubrys and graphic artist Žydrūnas Šlajus. The exhibition will be displayed till 2018 January 7th. To different art spheres representing authors show the works of various themes in the exhibition, however, they are connected by the precise performative technique of the works and the absorption to the created object, no matter, if it is the portrait of human, or the abstraction, or the still life. This exhibition perfectly reflects the mood of Christmas concentration and new inside discoveries.
Painter Gintaras Zubrys graduated Vilnius Art Academie‘s Painting department in 1996. He began to participate in exhibitions while he was still a student: in 1995 his works were chosen to prestigious “1995: Lithuanian art“ exhibition in Modern Art Center. Gintaras Zubrys has participated in 13 group exhibitions, has organized two personal exhibitions, currently, the artist‘s works are presented by “Park‘s gallery“ in Kaunas, by “AP“ gallery in Vilnius. Online “Saatchi“ gallery has selected the artist‘s works from thousands of their pieces exhibited artists there to special collection, presented in the rubric. His pieces have been bought by art fans in Holland and Switzerland. G. Zubrys exhibits still lifes and the optical illusion creating painting works. The author has been creating still lifes since 2014. Masterly painted dishes, draperies, glass provoke to touch the painting, however, the depiction of reality is relied on the idea, vividly painted still life, and it is totally distant from photo realistics, repeating and recreating the image, captured by the device. The works are laconic, of restrained coloring, they sink in Nordic dull light. In his abstract, based on the optical geometry pieces the painter concentrates to the unity of line, shape and color, the mood is created through the harmony of forms and colors, of contrast, of contradictions. Dimensional, precisely created works of the painter capture mode and mood. The names of works reflect that: “Exit“, “Communication“, “Pleasure“. In all painting, and in the still life, and in the optical pieces, to the artist is important the space, the visibility that influences emotions and senses.
Graphic artist Žydrūnas Šlajus graduated Vilnius Art Academie‘s Architecture and Design department, by getting the qualification of Applied Graphics, in 1996. He began to participate in art projects and exhibitions, performances while he was still in studying years. From the second course he has begun to participate in the exhibitions of graphics and photography. Later on, Ž. Šlajus started to create by using the techniques of graphite and linen carvings. Recently, he has been creating his pieces by using computer‘s technologies. In the exhibition Ž. Šlajus presents portraits that have been created by combined technique, there the artist is trying to concentrate on the portrait and on the highlighting of human face‘s features, posture and details. However, at the same time it is important to the artist to create the ironic relation through different contexts and controversy of different technologies. In Ž. Šlajus‘s works this relation is created by bringing in the advertising function performing poster‘s details to precisely created graphic piece, by highlighting the portrayed character through the detail which is expanded, transformed, exposed through the color. Playful relation, experimentation with contexts of pure art and popular culture are inherent to displayed works of Ž. Šlajus in the exhibition “Portrait of Girl“, “Portrait with Monocle“, “Portrait with Apple“, “Portrait with Glove“.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from G. Zubrys and Ž. Šlajus exhibition. Photos by Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Painter Rita Rimšienė‘s exhibition of anniversary of painting pieces “Readings of Thoughts“
This year, on December 8th, at 4.30 pm, in Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian National music history department (address: L. Zamenhofas str 12), will be the opening of painter Rita Rimšienė‘s exhibition of anniversary of painting pieces “Readings of Thoughts“.
Rita Rimšienė lives and creates in Kaunas: she has graduated Kaunas Polytechnic Institute (currently – Kaunas University of Technology), has get the specialty of Chemical Technology, Engineer Technologist, and in 2002 she graduated faculty of Economics of the same university, became the master of Financial Management and Business Administration. She began to paint ten years ago. And the painting was inspired by the acquaintance of two famous painters and a gift from her husband – a collection of art supplies. This was the beginning of the coming to the world of art. Artists Vytautas Kusas and Antanas Obcarskas influenced the creation of the author’s creative path. Rita Rimšienė has organized 22 personal exhibitions, participated in 28 group exhibitions. In recent years she has been organizing creative plein-airs. The painter presents 30 new works that were created in 2017. All of them have the same name as “Readings of Thoughts”. The artist in abstract, large-format canvas reflects the thought‘s path, the freedom of thinking and thought: considers, feels, captures, embodies, “writes“ the thought in an artistic language, gives it a color and a form, presents different variations and describes emotions. The painter‘s artistic style from the very first exhibitions is characterized by the abstraction and the special colorful expression. In the previous personal exhibitions the author has presented cycles of painting works “Conversation“, “Pleasant memories“ and “Alluring rhythm“, and with her latest cycle author Rita Rimšienė invites the viewer for the improvised dialogue about the mysterious labyrinth of thought. The author‘s developed narrative consistently opens up the abstract theme of thought and idea. An emotional load, an additional context, which links the internal and external worlds, is very important in the works of this cycle. The works displayed in the exhibition are dominated by various colors (brown, blue, violet, red), there are searching, experimenting, highlighting parallels and contrasts. In the artistic composition of these paintings the meditative expression of a sequence, number, code, an attempt to look for the most intensive thought‘s visualization and diversity are extremely important. In the creation work of the artist dominates the space of abstraction, highlighting the emotional survival and improvising the appearance of thought and its path.
In the exhibition presented different coloring shades cycle of painting works “Readings of Thoughts“ consists of the solid story in which there are expressed abstract lines, abstract accents and symbols. Large-format canvas only highlight the decorative. The fragmented story creates not only an immediate mood, but also engages the viewer into the world of reflections, fantasies and emotional experiences.
The exhibition will be open until January 6th. The exhibition‘s organizers – public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“, the exhibition‘s partner – Kaunas City Museum.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from painter Rita Rimšienė exhibition
Julius Keleras exhibition “Nida – cards of silence“
From this year, November 30, at Vytautas Magnus University, faculty of Social Sciences (address: Jonava str 66), will be Julius Keleras exhibition of photographs “Nida – cards of silence“. The exhibition curator – Algė Varnaitė.
“To be in Nida, especially not in the summer, means to experience the silence that is inherent part of the nature, manifested in traditional culture, to Lithuanian. Here nature provokes the amazement firstly, both – to native and to stranger, as if fixes the holes of informative noise, experienced in the big cities.
There are a lot of silence, a lot of water and a lot of sky. About all of that is my exhibition“, – says the exhibition’s author J. Keleras.
Julius Keleras (born in 1961) – Lithuanian poet, photographer, writer to children, dramatist. He graduated the higher music school of Juozas Tallat-Kelpša, later – Vilnius University Philology facultie’s specialty of Lithuanian language and Literature. In 1992 at Illinois University (Chicago) he has been granted the master degree of Free Arts. He was working as an editor in Lithuanian film studio, as an assistant of Lithuanian literature department at Vilnius University, as an assistant of Illinois Universitie’s Slavic and Baltic department, as an editor and a translator in publishing office “Lumen/Logos“, as a chief editor of weekly newspaper “Worker“, published in New York by Franciscan Fathers. He has been a member of International PEN club since 1992, a member of Lithuanian Union of Writers – since 1999. Since 2005 – a member of Lithuanian Union of Photographers. He has published eighteen books. The poems were translated to the languages of Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Hungarian, Bulgarian, English, Swedish, Polish, Latvian, Georgian, Czech, Slovak, Italian, Maltese, Spanish, Japanese, they were published in periodicals and anthology of those countries. He is an active participant of International Poetry festivals. The plays are staged in Lithuania and outside of it.
The exhibition’s organizers: public institution “Gabrielė’s Art Gallery“. The exhibition’s partner – Kaunas Photo Club.
Fragment’s from Julius Keleras exhibition:
Iridijus Švelnys’s and Gabija Riaubaitė’s exhibition of photographs “Contrasts of Life“
In Kaunas Culture Center “Home of Nation“ (Vytautas str 79) in November 21, at 6 pm, will be photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s and photographer Gabija Riaubaitė‘s photo-exhibition‘s “Contrasts of Life“ opening.
“Contrast of Life“ – black and white. Colored – uncolored. Wide – narrow. Young – elderly. These contrasts of sight decided to share photographs Gabija Riaubaitė and Iridijus Švelnys that created series of photographs “Contrast of Life“. In the photographs presented psychological and philosophical laws of life. Both – and wide, and narrow sights are equally important. This – like an eagle that is able to see very widely and very narrowly at the same time. In life we invoke both qualities, however, when we start to value one from them more, we don‘t notice something and we stray from the truth of life, we bog down. Sometimes it‘s enough to look to the problem more widely and it would dissapear immediately, and sometimes needs to concentrate at it and to experience it. These attitudes of life, like two equivalent opposite poles, presented in the photographs, are harmonious projections of sphere. So, let‘s look to these two poles, let‘s see the world like we‘ve never seen it, widely and at the same time deeply. Let yourself to wander between these poles, and our daily life will be more versatile and more beautiful.
Talking about the aspects of life, Iridijus Švelnys mentions, how widely and deeply needs to look to everything what is around us, he quotes the fragments from his book “The highest tolerance – the lightest mind theorem“: “How deeply will we be able to understand other, to understand his action, what does he say, what does he do? How will we be able to stand in his place and to look to all of it in different angle? All of that will let us be more tolerant. The more we will dive into that, the more we will be more tolerant. And don‘t forget, the highest tolerance – the lightest mind. It is said that The Highest Mind – only to God. So be more near him, even if you don‘t believe God (the fragment from I. Švelnys‘s book “In life everything is simple but not easy“). Let‘s think which space we may lack, which we‘ve been forgotten, and let‘s merge with the own harmony. A lot of things in our life we can change just now“.
Gabija Riaubaitė and photographer Iridijus Švelnys present all this philosophical idea through nature which we are governable for. All this series of photographs – a look to nature in different angle and different eyes at the same time, and widely, and deeply. Trees, petals, water, ice and other objects are presented in the different space – in sphere. Sphere – the most perfect and the most harmonious form, existed in nature. It – like infinity in which fits in most of all information. The photographs, created in such principle of sight, are circular shapes, that are harmonious sphere‘s projection in the plane. They open subtleties and secrets of nature, after we looked to the environment around us in especially deep sight, we can find even more different world – “Microcosm“. It can‘t be seen in the naked eye. That – microcosmic secrets of nature, “framed in the circle“, like tiny planets, exhilarated the life. What miracles are in it? In subconsciousness we understand the space in the angle of all 360 degrees, and also every its fragment – microscopically.
Photographer I. Švelnys lives and creates in Kaunas. He has organized 22 personal photo-exhibitions, 3 exhibitions were presented abroad. To student Gabija Riaubaitė – that is the second photo-exhibition which she organizes together with I. Švelnys.
The exhibition will be till December 21. The exhibition partner – public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
The information for press was prepared by the text of photographer Iridijus Švelnys.
Fragment’s from Iridijus Švelnys and Gabija Riaubaitė exhibition
Painter Dalia Kirkutienė‘s exhibition “NOT ONLY BLACK WHITE“
From this year, November 7, in Kaunas citie’s museum, Lithuanian national music historie’s department (address: L. Zamenhofas street 12), will be painter Dalia Kirkutienė‘s personal exhibition “NOT ONLY BLACK WHITE“.
Currently, painter Dalia Kirkutienė lives and creates in Klaipėda. In 1977 she graduated Kulautuva‘s (Kaunas district) high school. In 1985 in Public art institute she get artist-technologist-textile worker‘s specialty.
Since 2004 she has organized personal exhibitions in Kaunas, Klaipėda, Plungė. Also, she participates in plein-airs with professional artists. Since 2010 D. Kirkutienė has been welcomed to Lithuanian Artists Union.
Painter Dalia Kirkutienė get in the squad of painters with her own bright style. Her painting is very decorative. The author gives searches of new genre with every new tide of pictures.
About her cycle of new works “NOT ONLY BLACK WHITE“ D. Kirkutienė tells: “My paintings, made of thousands of small squares, have become my style, momently recognizable. This summer, in the circumstances, I came back to molding technique, which I have mastered, by molding on the silk. The offer to create paintings for building Pacas Hotel in Vilnius gave me endless opportunities and freedom to try myself in totally different style. The canvas are big, there are many of them, there is no time to doubt. To these works need freedom and courage, needs wind. I was standing against big white canvas, by paying attention to colors and to water flow on its smooth surface… All thoughts have already been in my hands… Sometimes the mind watches from the side their movements, manipulating the flow of paints by suggested direction. I don‘t know, if that‘s it, or, if there‘re only feelings, that lay down all shapes, tones and semitones to the right places. I don‘t believe in coincidences… Behind each “coincidence“ – long way to that, what seems like a miracle. To that, what seems easily and simply, sometimes – maybe even too offhandedly… By this technique created works – full of miracles. You can find huge number of hidden figures, they‘re charming by the lightness, sometimes – the rough, as not everything would be said, there‘s left a place for every viewer‘s imagination… In this exhibition I present smaller works, that I painted, after I‘ve already finished the order. I can‘t stop… this process is so inspiring and enchanting…“ – painter Dalia Kirkutienė is telling.
The exhibition will be till December 6. The exhibition‘s organizers – public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. The exhibition‘s partner – “Kaunas citie‘s museum“.
The information for press was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from Dalia Kirkutienė exhibition:
Painter Rūta Levulienė‘s exhibition “Landscapes“
From November 7th in Kaunas City Museum, Lithuanian national music historie‘s department, will be painter Rūta Levulienė‘s personal exhibition “Landscapes“. Painter Rūta Levulienė lives and creates in Kaunas. She actively participates in group exhibitions and organizes personal exhibitions. Since 2014 she has been participating in exhibitions. Such teachers as, famous painter Antanas Obcarskas, painter Violeta Juodzevičienė, artist Lukas Kalmogercovas, have had the influence to the author‘s creation work. The author is often inspired by nature, therefore, she presents the cycle of landscapes in this exhibition.
In the exhibition painter Rūta Levulienė presents the latest works from the cycle “Landscapes“: “Blue green landscape“, “After snow melts“, “Waiting“, “Landscape“, “Gardens of realizations“, “The walk by coast on windy day“, “Garden of poet“, “In the forest II“, “Blossom of Echinacea“ etc.
Rūta Levulienė‘s paintings stand out the aesthetics. In the latest pictures dominate shades of greenish, blue, yellow, red colors. In the paintings of the landscapes a lot of attention is paid to the rhythm of lines and to shapes. Dominates the narration of geometrical forms, which consists of different content and topics. In the landscapes of R. Levulienė often transformed motive of nature, becoming the abstract colorful nuance, form‘s allusion, is almost always connected with moods and experiences of the inside world. In the painter‘s latest series of landscapes dominates harmonious style of the paintings. The author‘s creation work stands out the subtle narration, the musicianship of shapes and lines, the rhythm.
There is the wide variety of themes in the exhibition: the theme of seasons, the topic of waiting, the theme of dreams and other important topics to the author. In the paintings dominates colorful mood, which tranfers to the abstract story about landscapes without clear limits, without beginning and without end. The exhibition will be till December 6th. The exhibition‘s organizers – public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. The exhibition‘s partner – “Kaunas City Museum“.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
On October 22, at 3 pm, in Babtynas-Žemaitkiemis manor will be photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s 22nd exhibition-performance “Migraine“. In one creative space will merge photography, dance and music.
In the past year photographer Iridijus Švelnys has created several photographic cycles on various topics. In his creative work the author experiments not only with techniques but, also, with themes. He is searching for more attractive to the viewer versions of the photographie‘s exposure and its presentation. He creates interactive environments, by reaching to get closer to the viewer‘s soul.
In the works dominate triad: philosophy, photography and psychology. That – are inherent elements, on which basis the author gets into the soul‘s depths of existence, by revealing his own personality.
During the creative period of two years photographer Iridijus Švelnys has organized 22 exhibitions. 3 exhibitions have been organized in Germany and United Kingdom.
During performance “Migraine“ will dance professional modern dancers: Valerija Gnuševa, Greta Grinevičiūtė, Ana Novckaja, Greta Bernotaitė. For this “Migraine“ performance have been created special music tracks. Their creators: Rytis Verpečinskas ir Dainora Aleksaitė.
Based on real-life experience performance “Migraine“ has been created together with model Alvyda Andriekutė. Her inside experiences during Migraine attack have been captured and presented in different shots of the photographs. The energy of this experience flows from the work with endless outburst, by reaching the viewer unconditionally, it causes to him emotional and inside experiences, that are directed towards the touch of the personalitie‘s soul.
The photographer together with the model created performance “Migraine“ reveal not only about Migraine. They talk about the basis of this illness, as the wider aspect, about the diseases, against which can win the fight only that, who can become friends with it. This – is not only Migraine. This – is the illness of Fear, Anxiety, Diabetes, Epilepsy, Schizophrenia and other diseases, which come with the thunder and leave the emaciated being after the attack.
About that, what Migraine is, her reflections shares model Alvyda Andriekutė:
“Migraine – what is it? What is the kind of it? I wanted to capture it by the help of photography, to know more about my other side. I wouldn‘t get over that alone, I needed a person, who can get into the soul‘s depths, who can carry out that especially nicely and professionally to the visual aspect. I shared my thoughts and inside experiences with photographer I. Švelnys. We understood that, it‘s going to be a big psychological challenge to both of us – for me – to take pictures by feeling the pain, to Iridijus – to watch my agony“.
The exhibition of photographs will be presented in modern format. Larger than two meters size works will make You feel the transmited energy of the works. You will see psychedelic individual creative shows of four professional dancers, that have been created specially for this performance. The hovered smell in the air of the dancing and the transmited energy of the body will make dance Your souls together with us. You will hear specially for this performance made works of two creators of psychedelic music, that will let You to go to unexperienced emotion. We will give You the emotions, that You won‘t find in everyday life. We will give You the vision, where eight persons will give themselves to You.
We thank for the project‘s support to Žemaitkiemis Babtynas manor‘s host Mindaugas Šventoraitis.
The project partner – public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
The information for the press has been made by the text of photographer Iridijus Švelnys and Alvyda Andriekutė.
Fragments from Iridijus Švelnys instaliation “Aspect of limitations and restrictions”
This year, on the 4th of October (on Wednesday), at 4 pm, in Kaunas city museum‘s City Hall department (address: City Hall 15) will be photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s series of photographs “Aspect of limitations and restrictions“ interactive installation presentation.
In the last two years photographer Iridijus Švelnys has created some cycles of various themes photographs, the author has been experimenting with techniques, has been searching for more attractive photographic exposure to the viewer, versions of the photographie‘s presentation, also, he has been creating interactive environments, by reaching to come closer to the viewer‘s soul. During two years of creation work the author has organized 17 exhibitions, three of them have been organized in Germany and United Kingdom.
By creating this series and installation the photographer has done great work, which lasted the whole year. In the plot have been photographed more than 200 persons, have been created 7000 photographs of acts. Only the minor part will be presented in the interactive installation, in which each picture of big format will be put in the maze of limitations and restrictions. The installation‘s author and director I. Švelnys invites his own viewer to look deeper to your inside through the artwork, to realize, that we all have limitations and restrictions, to learn to determine the limit of these actions, to create the plan to overcome them and, finally, to let yourself to enjoy, to motivate yourself. How do You feel when You do something the first time? What blessing does visit You, when You overcome that? Do You remember that feeling? So, if you want to live by motivating yourself, overcome your own limitations and restrictions every day. Precisely about that speaks this series and installation. In the frequent work of the photographer there is especially important the composition of photography, psychology, philosophy, the certain triad. By his own works the author experiments, improvises, seeks to unite contradictions, creates unexpected and subtle visual metaphors, questions to the inside “I“. The first presentation of the installation was in Babtynas Žemaitkiemis manor this year, in summer, together with partners – photographer Inga Valiuvienė, lecturer Asta Mažeikienė, Cross The Line and Donatas Medzevičius (Medonas).
Iridijus Švelnys is philosophizing photographer, often not only explaining but, also, commenting his own works, inviting the audience for the dialogue. His installation “Aspect of limitations and restrictions“ the author presents and invites: “Come to look not to my works. Come to look to yourself, to your own soul, to your own limitations and restrictions. By wandering in the dark mazes and looking through the key holes to outlandish limitations and restrictions, you will find yourself. Come and realize the motive, why you have to do that as well“.
The information has been prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragments from Romualdas Požerskis exhibition “Mysteriuos Bangladesh”
Photographs exhibition of Romualdas Požerskis “Mysterious Bangladesh“
This year, on the 3rd of October, on Tuesday, at 4 pm, in Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian national music history department (address: L. Zamenhofas str 12) will be photographer Romualdas Požerskis‘s personal exhibition “Mysterious Bangladesh“ opening.
R. Požerskis lives and creates in Kaunas. The author‘s creation work, which includes more than four decades period, is especially various in thematic and stylistic meanings. The works of R. Požerskis have their bright place in Lithuanian photographie‘s history by the documentation of historical events, sensitive approach of social topics, subtle nuance of human character and relation with the environment. He is known and acknowledged creator in Lithuania and abroad. In 1990 the artist has been rewarded Lithuanian National premium, in 1994 he has been granted the honorary name of International artistic photography federation‘s (FIAP) photographer artist (AFIAP). Since 2011 the photographer has been teaching at Vytautas Magnus University, also, he is a professor of Modern Arts department.
Romualdas Požerskis tells, how he travelled around Bangladesh, what he saw during the travel and perpetuated in his photographs: “I was travelling in Bangladesh by specially scheduled route and I was taking pictures of working people. Here everyone is working from the dawn till the twilight. I was photographing people in bazaars, cargo ship port, ship repair workshops, leather factories, gravel mines, tileries of bricky products, waste collection points, Hindu-religious festival. I was visiting villages, where all residents from the dawn till the twilight work – dry rice, paint textile by bright colors or burn ceramics. I was taking pictures under difficult conditions the shabbiest families, living in shallops or slums near railway line – in Daka‘s slum. Tourist industry in Bangladesh has just started to develop, there are no money exchanges, you won‘t meet white people in the cities. Though, in Bangladesh there is the most fertile ground in the world, but it is one of the poorest countries in the world. Bangladesh – the densest populated country in the world and it is one of the most polluted countries. It is still undiscovered paradise of photographers. The territory of Bangladesh – like two Lithuanias, however, there are 50 times more residents“. The photographs of R. Požerskis especially accurately reflect his described particularity of the country. In the exhibition‘s works there are many objections and contrasts of Bangladesh, characteristic faces, fixation of immediate country and its residents lifestyle and mood, which is presented to the viewer by the photographer. The exhibition will work till November 5.
The exhibition organizer: public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. The exhibition partner – Kaunas city museum.
The information for press has been prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragments from Iridijus Švelnys exhibition at Žalgirio arena
Gallery “Golden section“ presents photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s exhibition of interactive photographs “Lithuanian Old Towns“ in Kaunas Žalgiris arena
From this year, September 15, in Kaunas Žalgiris arena (address: King Mindaugas prospectus 50) will be photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s exhibition of interactive photographs “Lithuanian Old Towns“. In the exhibition I. Švelnys is going to present ten large format photographs. This is – the interactive narration about Lithuanian Old Towns. In the large format photographs the author captures the spaces of Kaunas, Šiauliai, Kėdainiai, Klaipėda and Ukmergė Old Towns.
Iridijus Švelnys lives and creates in Kaunas. He studied radio electronics at Kaunas University of Technology, later he studied master of management at ISM. Since 2016 he has been collaborating with public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. Photographer Iridijus Švelnys has already organized 16 exhibitions, has been participating in group exhibitions and has been organizing personal exhibitions. He has already organized personal exhibitions in Lithuania, Germany and London. The main exhibitions of photographer I. Švelnys are these: in 2015 December in Babtynas manor of Žemaitkiemis was organized the first installation-exhibition “In life everything is simple but not easy“. Also, in 2016 March personal exhibition of photographs “In life everything is simple but not easy“ was organized in LR embassy in Berlin. In 2016 June-August in Historic Baron Munhausen Castle the first time was presented interactive series of photographs “Lithuanian Old Towns“. The theme of the biennial – “Photographic stories“ (the biennial‘s curators – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė and artist Jūratė Sližytė). In 2016 the same photographic series was presented in National Kaunas Drama Theater. In 2017 February interactive series of photographs “Lithuanian Old Towns“ was presented in Lithuanian Education History museum. Also, in 2017 February series of photographs “Lithuanian Old Towns“ was presented in International London Art Fair “ART PARRALAX FAIR“, and in 2017 July the exhibition was presented in Foreign Office, in Vilnius. In 2017 July in Babtynas manor of Žemaitkiemis the photographer together with “Cross the Line“ presented installation-exhibition “Aspects of isolations“.
In the interactive photographs exhibition photographer Iridijus Švelnys presents these photographs in topic “Lithuanian Old Towns“: “Ladies and gentlemen“, “Neighbours“, “In the sight of the eye“, “Bird“, “Star“, “The neighbour“, “The mighty man“, “Bridges“, “Flight“, “Imprisoned“, “Gate of the hell“, “Duet“.
By taking pictures of Lithuanian Old Towns the author chooses an unexpected angle, by actualizing the moment of the unexpectedness, by using the unconventional “fish‘es eye“ photographic manner, he experiments the photography, by pressing it on the glass plates. I. Švelnys uses the language of symbols and metaphors to the resolution of the city. The philosophic and ironic city presentation‘s conception of I. Švelnys is presented in geometric circle shape, which allows to the viewer to see the image in the angle of 180 degrees. In the photographs there are important the fragmented architectonic details, that reveal through the symbols – roofs. Often the image of the city is framed to the symbol of broken star. In the photographs of I. Švelnys there are especially important the relation with nature and the connection of earth and universes of sky. In each photograph there are particularly important colorful nuances: blue, greenish, yellowish shades and colorings. In his creation work‘s presentations, in the openings of the exhibitions the author accents interesting triad in his photographs – photography, psychology and philosophy.
By talking about his creation work the photographer says: “ “Photography – is a visual measure to feel and to represent a conception ten times faster than it is written in letters. Philosophy – that is my aspiration. This is my ideal world, which I am chasing with my works, my actions, my challenges aiming the highest goals. Psychology – is the third component, which helps to feel an emotional feeling, to insert it to a current vision of the image.“
Iridjus Švelnys creates the unconventional photography, his created artistic narrative is combined and complemented by psychological and philosophical components, get distinctive environment seeing‘s aspect and psychological emotional experience, which is clear in his exhibitions and in his photographie‘s albums.
The exhibition‘s partner – public institution “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragments from Vytenis Sinkevičius exhibition
This year, on the 22nd of August, on Tuesday, at 5 pm, in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music history department (address: L. Zamenhofas str 4), will be Vytenis Sinkevičius‘s personal exhibition “Modes“ opening.
The artist lives and creates in Kaunas. In 1989-1996 he was studying in Kaunas Art gymnasium, later, he continued his studies in Vilnius Art academy, Kaunas branch, in 2005 he get Sculpture bachelor’s diploma. In 1999-2001 he was studying English in London (Edgware Academy of Languages and Computer Science). After the studies he was working and living several years in London. In 2007 he studied in accordance with Erasmus students exchange program in Dublin (Dublin National College of Art and Design, Ireland, MFA fine art by research). In 2008 in Vilnius Art Academy he get sculpture and art master’s qualificative degree.
Vytenis Sinkevičius has been participating in the exhibitions in Lithuania since 1998, abroad – since 2008. In the latest exhibition the author presents the paintings, created since 1998. The themes and names of the paintings reflect and express different spiritual and emotional modes. The dominant genre of the exhibition‘s paintings is portraits, in which the artist creates psychological characteristic of the portrayed person. The portrait of the human like incarnates the dominant trait of the person character, his personality. So not by a chance, there are names of the paintings, displayed in the exhibition: “Will“ (1998), “Grief“ (1999), “Before the fight“ (1999), “Anger“, “Resistance“ (1999), “Waiting for“ (2004), “Melancholy“ (1999), “Psychological portrait of A. Warhol“ (2005).
Vytenis Sinkevičius explains the exhibition‘s idea, by saying: “The idea of the exhibition has come from personal searches for the meaning of life, various meditative practices and activity, which I do now – Chinese images medicine, astrological consultation, Chinese cigun meditative practices guiding, seminars of consciousness‘s education. The cycle of paintings has been created quite long time ago. It includes certain stages of my life. In the exhibition will be displayed several photographs too, which symbolize glamour my life stages to these days. Therefore, the exhibition‘s name “Modes“ messages the change. According to Eastern wisdom (Veda), the modes of human (for example, anger, fear) are like clothes, he/she wears. Everything depends on the choice of the human – which modes he chooses himself. To a person, who doesn‘t do meditative practices, it is difficult to keep positive modes, he is often muscled in by negative emotions. Medics identified psychosomatic connection between negative modes and human health condition a long time ago. We have to put efforts to keep positive modes in ourselves and in the environment.
The exhibition will be till August 30.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
The exhibition‘s partner – Kaunas city museum.
The information for the press was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
On the 29th of June, at 5 pm, in Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian national music history department (address: L. Zamenhofas str 12) will be painter Raminta Ardzevičienė‘s personal exhibition “Colorful puddles“ opening.
“Colorful puddles“ – is a new painting works cycle of Raminta Ardzevičienė ( was born in 1983). The author – is certificated artist, graduated Applied Graphic Arts specialty in Vilnius Art Academy, has been participating in exhibitions since 2009.
In exhibition “Colorful puddles“ there are presented funny pictures with even more funny names (for example, “Onka“, 2015). According to art critic Vilma Valiukonienė, it is like personality emotions‘ spilling on the canvas, by telling stories, pulled out from unconscious depths, in picky surrealistic abstraction way, by deconstructing and putting again reality, as a dream, to tidy forms. The painting to R. Ardzevičienė is “relaxation form, where You can be free, independent, real, with Your own mood and thoughts, just the way You are“.
R. Ardzevičienė, by taking advantage of surrealistic automation, paints by trying “to turn off mind and logic, by letting to forms and colors “to fall down accidentally“, by not limiting them, not tieing them to rules“. It is like a transition from concrete plot to abstraction and backwards. Her works – “they‘re like unconscious puzzles, merging and scattering again, they‘re more modes than concrete thought‘s fixation“. It is a colorful mood, which transfers to abstract fairy-tale without clear limits, without the beginning and without the end. The author is interested in the human‘s unconscious torrent, that “what stays between words, between lines, kept to oneself and untold, that moment, when the mind is hushed, and remains only intuition or feeling, that what is impalpable, unsubstantiated and incalculable“. The works of Raminta Ardzevičienė remind one of the most famous Surrealism art current‘s representatives Joan Miró – XX centurie‘s Spanish painter – works. The difference is only in variety of colors and in intensity, also, in thickness of forms. Her works, just like J. Miró, are impregnated of the power of childish expression, in them disappear the naturalistic perception of space. Improved individual and at once recognized language of images, the artist creates freely twinkling naive figures and fairy-tales creatures world. The entire cobweb of little creatures, abstract and tactile forms, sometimes becoming recognizable objects, fills in the smooth colorful surfaces. The forms wave and connect with each other, by creating thrilling plot, imparted exactly and accurately (“Yellow city“, Colorful puddles“, “Forest“). In the paintings the most important are tellers – bright puddles, which rhythmically mixing, by creating restless mood, joy, lightness and playfulness (“Beetle trip“, “Green“). From all displayed pieces in the exhibition stands out painting “My neurons“ (2017). In it, like the abstract expressionism‘s masters inspired, the author expressively frame emotional charge, by spilling it right on the canvas…
The painting works of Raminta Ardzevičienė – emotional and impregnated of childish purity, expressed by bright colors, leaving an opportunity to the viewer to tell the abstract fairy-tale to himself. Just to dare to wade in “colorful puddles“.
The exhibition in Lithuanian national music history museum will be till July 29.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
The exhibition‘s partner – Kaunas city museum.
The text‘s author – art critic Vilma Valiukonienė
This year, on the 28th of June (on Wednesday), at 5 pm, in Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian national music history department (address: L. Zamenhofas str 12) will be folk artist Nijolė Jurkuvienė‘s personal exhibition “Tree of Life“ opening.
N. Jurkuvienė works at National M. K. Čiurlionis art museum, at M. Žilinskas art gallery. From 1980 the author has been organizing personal exhibitions, she has organized about 70 personal exhibitions. Folk artist N. Jurkuvienė has organised exhibitions not only in Lithuania, but also in Germany, England and France. Her pictures have been get by collectors from foreign countries. From 1993 N. Jurkuvienė has been working in graphic arts and batik art sphere. In expressive pictures are connected folk art, graphic art views and batic art technologies. In the artist‘s works there are plenty of symbols, geometric forms, in the pieces nuances of colorful colouring are important. In her works the author remains loyal to Lithuanian traditions: she makes them more modern, connects different signs, gives a meaning by batic art technologies. In each work of the folk artist dominate different motives and topics. In the frequent piece dominates harmonious whole, connecting Baltic Lithuanian representation signs with motive of nature. N. Jurkuvienė‘s works themes, their content are based on these fundamental her creation work poles, artistic visual her works expression has been summarized at the maximum. In N. Jurkuvienė‘s creation work Kaunas citie‘s and religious subjects‘s themes become relevant.
Existential meanings of the depicted objects open through certain decorative details and symbols, that stylize folk ornament, spindle‘s Baltic symbols‘s motives. “Artist N. Jurkuvienė‘s Batic art characterizes genre landscape‘s self-portrait‘s, figurative compositions‘s elements. In the pictures‘s compositions you can see three tendencies. In one of them Lithuanian folk motives are the main individual piece‘s elements. In the second – bigger attention is paid to Lithuanian folk subjects – tree of life, spindle. However, these subjects are braided with sacral symbols – motives of crosses, angels, crucifix. In the third – the artist explores Christian subjects, she puts them into the clothe of folk motives – feminine and male origins, signs of Sun and other stars, water, fire, earth and arable, spaces connection, Universe‘s symbols. N. Jurkuvienė creates conditional image of the world, speaks by metaphors about such values as love, femininity, maternity, self-sacrifice, friendship, eternity, reminiscence“ (art critic Simona Lukėnienė).
N. Jurkuvienė‘s personal exhibition “Three of life“ will be opened till the 29th of July. Organiser of this exhibition is public institution “Art gallery of Gabrielė”, partner of this exhibition is “Kaunas city museum“.
Information for press was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Hello, in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music history department, on the 27th of June, at 5 pm, will be painter Antanas Andziulis‘s exhibition “Alternation“ opening.
“I was born in 1960 in Kaunas, learning in Kaunas J. Naujalis High Art School (now – Kaunas Art Gymnasium), in 1978-84 I was studying Painting in Vilnius Art institute“ – tells Antanas Andziulis.
“The first art lessons were in my family – my father was studying Painting in postwar period, my mother – textile. In Art school great teacher Algirdas Lukštas was teaching Painting, in Vilnius Art institute – professors Kostas Dereškevičius, Arvydas Šaltenis, Leopoldas Surgailis, Vladas Karatajus.
After the studies in the painting works I pictured real forms in real space. In 1993 they were replaced by expressive abstraction. Since 2010 has begun the period of geometric abstraction. I show the works of this period in the exhibition.
To myself in my painting there are very important two things: strong colorful intensity and space between the work and the name, dedicated to it, which can turn into the gate to the soul‘s journey“.
Antanas Andziulis
Hello, from June 5th, together with Kaunas cultural centre “Nation home“, we are realizing interdisciplinary art project “Hundreds feelings to Lithuania“. You can read more information: Interdisciplinary art exhibition HUNDREDS FEELINGS TO LITHUANIA, dedicated to Lithuanian Independence Commemoration century. Organize: Gabrielė‘s art gallery, Kaunas cultural centre “Nation home“. During the art project professional artists of various spheres have been invited to celebrate Countrie‘s century in their creation work – to create the story for Lithuania, which includes of individual visual narrations about Lithuanian statehood, their own relation with Lithuanian history or Lithuanian identity, about themselves in Lithuania, about It in themselves. From June 5th till October 8th creators are invited to give applications to participating in exhibition “Hundreds feelings to Lithuania“. Professional artists of various spheres (painters, graphic artists, photographers, sculptors, textile artists, watercolourists, media artists, members of interdisciplinary art…) can participate in the contest.
It has been formed the commission of professional artists and art critics (4 people) for works rating. From October 9th till November 8th it will choose the exhibition‘s participants and it will give nominations. The chosen artists will be informed by e-mail or phone. From November 16th in the website “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“ will be presented virtual participants works exhibition and it will be invited to share thoughts of the exhibition‘s theme. From 2018 February16th the exhibition will be exhibited in Kaunas cultural centre “Nation home“.
Next project‘s stage – exhibition‘s travel around Lithuania and Lithuanian communities abroad. In the exhibition can be various expression‘s measures and formats pieces, but in the travelling exhibition will be only the pieces that do not exceed 1m x 1m x 1m size. The piece could be created during 2007-2017. By the mail or WeTransfer sent informative piece‘s packet must be:
• Filled application form.
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• Artist‘s photograph.
• Short author‘s CV (in Word format, not more than ½ page).
The application with CD must be sent by mail or WeTransfer program not later than 2017 October 8.
Address:
Interdisciplinary art exhibition “Hundreds feelings to Lithuania“. Kaunas cultural centre “Nation home“, Vytauto pr. 79, LT-44321 Kaunas.
More information:
Project‘s manager Gabrielė Kuizinaitė, e-mail address: gabrielegallery@gmail.com, phone number: +370 676 12745.
Project’s coordinator Agnietė Janušaitė-Vitkūnienė, e-mail address: a.vitkuniene@tautosnamai.lt, phone number: +370 612 15828.
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This year, on March 22th, in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music section, it was photographer Robertas Misiukonis’s exhibition “TO HER OR LIFE’S MAELSTROM“ opening.
Hello, in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music history section (address: L. Zamenhofo 4), was painter Egidija Brinkytė’s exhibition “25th shot“.
From May 30th in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music history section (address: L. Zamenhofo 4) runs artist Vida Korn’s photographs exhibition “Magic fountains“. The exhibition’s closure will be in June 22th, at 4 pm.
Vida Korn lives and creates in Kaunas. This photographs series has been created by travelling around Spain. The artist was watching and photographing fountains. Vida Korn has already organized four personal exhibitions on this topic. Since 2016 she has been collaborating with PI Gabrielė’s art gallery. The exhibition will run till June 24th. The exhibition’s organizers – PI Gabrielė’s art gallery, the exhibition’s partner – Kaunas city museum.
The information to press was prepared by exhibition’s tutor Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from ph. Remigijus Venckus exhibition:
Ph. photographer Remigijus Venckus’s personal photographs exhibition:
“Photo-fragments: diaries, sketches, notes“.
This year, on June 2nd, in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music history section (address: L. Zamenhofo 12), at 2 pm, will be photographer, media artist, art critic, assoc. dr. Remigijus Venckus’s author lecture “Experimental photography“, and at 4 pm will be photographer assoc. dr. Remigijus Venckus’s personal photographs exhibition “Photo-fragments: diaries, sketches, notes“ opening.
Assoc. dr. Remigijus Venckus is well-known not only in media cultural and art researches sphere, but also, as actively creating experimental photographs art. In the author lecture it is introducing with photography creation’s direction, explaining why, how and what creates assoc. dr. R. Venckus, defining what his brave photography and computer technique experiments have mutual with language’s use and its perception, what are the modern experimental photographic tendencies, what artists reach for by experimenting technique and esthetic decisions. By sharing his experience assoc. dr. R. Venckus explores media, audits photography, experimental video-films, literature and language limits. He does as though permanent language’s invention. By watching carefully art world’s innovations, going deep into technologies and applying different expression’s measures, the creator obviously propagates post-photography tendencies and by his practical activity participates in visual turn. In the author lecture it is presented acts creation sphere, too. By shooting assoc. dr. R. Venckus explores man bodie’s sexuality limits, so he will introduce the attendance with five years creating cycle “I am Other“. In this cycle the author usually forms distinctive visual links to Biblical stories. This author lecture is dedicated to all minded modern audiovisual culture, creating photographic art, doing researches of art and culture, competing photographic events to cultural employees, art creators, collectors and sponsors, experimenting youth, teaching about audiovisual culture.
The exhibition curator Gabrielė Kuizinaitė notices: “The artist often travels to Berlin. During all travels assoc. dr. R. Venckus was interested in German capital’s museums and galleries exhibited art pieces, he was looking for himself in the travelling process. The latest exhibition is made of earlier created photographic series “Diaries places“, when the artist took the pictures by travelling around different lands: Krakow, Warsaw, Tatras and other. In “Berlin diary“ was dominated black and white, minimalist photography. The attention was paid not to technology, but to esthetic decision.
The exhibition will run till June 24th. The exhibition’s organizers – PI Gabrielė’s art gallery, the exhibition’s partner – Kaunas city museum, UAB Kazimieras Simonavičius’s university. More information: www.venckus.eu.
The exhibition’s tutor – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from photographer Feliksas Kerpauskas exhibition:
On 8th of May, at 5 pm, in Kaunas cultural center “Home of Nation“ (Vytauto pr 79) will run photographer Feliksas Kerpauskas‘s exhibition opening, during which the author will present photographs series about stones and trees.
F. Kerpauskas was born in 1933 in Plungė district. He began to take pictures in 1954, became actively involved to the activity of Kaunas Photo Club. In 1987 he has been signed in Lithuanian Union of Photographers, he has been given the status of Art Creator. F. Kerpauskas has organized many personal exhibitions in Lithuania.
Landscapes are the closest to the photographer, though, he fixates Kaunas cultural life, creates portraits of his friends, too. F. Kerpauskas told, that he photographs because he wants to show to others the beauty around us. The most important to him – joy of sharing. The photographer looks philosophically to the nature and to the shooting object.
“Before I have started to shoot stones, I began to interest in spiritual world of the stones. I paid attention to that the stones overgrow nicely by lichens, moss, and it looks like they have burst into bloom. The first created series called “Flowering stones“. The stone has its own colors, face, texture. The stone has many allusions with human“, – F. Kerpauskas was telling.
The exhibition will run till June 4th.
Fragment’s from Asta Keraitienė exhibition
On 26th of April, at 5 pm, in Kaunas citie‘s museum, Lithuanian national music history department (L. Zamenhofo str 12), will run artist Asta Keraitienė‘s personal painting pieces exhibition “Mandala“ opening.
In the exhibition You will be able to get acquainted with the symbol of mandala and the meaning of mandala in modern human life. During the exhibition‘s opening will be playing the music, performed by archaic music instruments.
Young generation‘s painter Asta Keraitienė was born in 1971 in Panevėžys. The artist has found public institution “Center of Self-development“, where she organizes various painting and other practices to children and adults.
According to the artist, historians find shapes of Mandala in the oldest cultures and civilizations. Because of its universalitie‘s principle it is used for the construction of sacral buildings, symbols of gods, ornamentation, signs, etc. One of the most perfect and mostly noticeable shapes is Circle, Wheel or Sphere, which symbolizes unity, spirit, completeness, safety – permanent movement and creation work.
The exhibition will run in Lithuanian national music history museum till May 27th.
The exhibition‘s tutor – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragment’s from Marius Abramavičius exhibition
On 25th of April, at 4 pm, in Kaunas citie’s museum, Lithuanian national music history department (L. Zamenhofo str 12), will run photographer, traveler and writer Marius Abramavičius‘s exhibition “Užupis: myths and reality“ opening.
Marius Abramavičius has been a member of Lithuanian Union of Photographers since 1998. In 2016 the artist published his third book “Iran – other side of Moon“. He constantly creates, organizes personal exhibitions and participates in mutual exhibitions of art and photography.
M. Abramavičius has created these cycles of photographs: “Reflections“, “Essential details“, “I am me, or the diary of Narcissus“, “Silver dreams always come true“, “Laughter“, “Games of vitreous beads“, “People are people“, “Double“, “Portraits of Užupis Photo Studio“, “Alive. Vilnius“, “Georgia is smiling“, “Užupis: myths and reality“.
Talking about the creation of series of photographs “Užupis: myths and reality“ the author tells: “Now looking to the land of my realizations, what can I transfer? I can only enjoy various human life style‘s expressions, all seasons, moods, situations and attractions. People are people. They adapt to changing time. But about that, it is a romance or film. Here it is only the exhibition of photographs, only the future, still created album of photographs, a book, little windows to reality. That is how I see, that is how I admire this world. Sometimes I go for a walk, caught by sun spark, intoxicating cherry blossom, sometimes – evening snowstorm of the snowflakes. And every time – to the obscurity, every time – by finding still something new. To me – Užupis is still alive source of discoveries, full of simple miracles, which You just have to learn to notice. Sometimes I just can‘t find strength to that, I walk with the same look by scaning the space, until something flashes suddenly. Color, thing, cat, door, sky, something, what knocks out from the traditional rhythm“.
The exhibition will run in Lithuanian national music history museum (L. Zamenhofo str 12) till May 27th.
The information for press was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragments from Iridijus Švelnys exhibition photo’s by Kristina Valasevičienė
Photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s photo exhibition “Graphic arts of the Trees“
In 2017, on the 18th of April (on Tuesday), at 6 pm, in Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian national music history department will run photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s photo exhibition “Graphic arts of the Trees“ opening.
Iridijus Švelnys lives and creates in Kaunas. Currently he improves his photographic knowledge in New York Photography Institute. The author is interested in Photography more than twenty years. This year it is the fourth personal exhibition of the photographer, his creation work has already been presented in Germany and London.
In the latest exhibition Iridijus Švelnys presents artistic narration about trees. The exhibited pieces stand out modern photographic composition, unique image‘s “framing“ conception, individual style. By his pieces the author gives an opportunity not only to feel emotions, but also to realize the beauty of nature‘s greatness. Trees – the symbol of eternity and longevity. By presenting the image of tree through unexpected prism the author highlights variety of the forms of trees, by turning them into graphic images, in this way creating certain dialogue with his own viewer.
Talking about series “Graphic arts of the Trees“ creative process Iridijus Švelnys tells: “Photo series “Graphic arts of the Trees“ has been created by the help of “fish eye“ objective. The objective, which is viewing 180 degrees image, gives unusual view to the eyes, when our subconsciousness understands the image, and our conscious thinking says that it is impossible. Through the play of graphic lines to the emotions – that is the main creative aim“.
In his photographs the author seeks to give the feeling, when you are enclasped the tree, touched near it, laid down under it, when the tree becomes the intermediate between You and sky, lets you to feel unexperienced emotions, to get back piece and trust, to get to know yourself through the identical with nature, to find your own “I“.
The exhibition will run till May 13. The exhibition‘s organizer – PC “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“. The exhibition‘s partner – Kaunas city museum.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragment’s from Edmundas Kartanas exhibition
Painter Edmundas Kartanas‘s personal exhibition “I will go out to smoke“
From April 10 in Kaunas cultural center “Home of Nation“ (Vytauto pr 79) runs painter Edmundas Kartanas second personal painting works exhibition “I will go out to smoke“ opening. The exhibition curator – artist Agnietė Janušaitė-Vitkūnienė.
Painter Edmundas Kartanas was born in 1973 in Šiauliai. Since 2003 he has been living and creating in Kaunas district, Vandžiogala. Exactly before one year ago in Kaunas cultural center “Home of Nation“ was the first exhibition of the author “Perspective“. The painter also actively participates in yearly mutual artists exhibitions: organized by Kaunas paintings gallery “One piece’s exhibition“, also, in group exhibition “Rebirth“ of artists group “Sphinx“. Currently collection of E. Kartanas paintings reach almost 50 pieces. Since 2016 the painter collaborates with “Gabrielė’s art gallery“. In the latest exhibition painter Edmundas Kartanas presents different abstract stylistics pieces, their names – “Three kings“, “Pilgrim of the Night“, “I and other I“, “Climbing the stairs“, “Farmstead“, “Lost“, “Looking for the Pure“, “Dancing butterflies“, “The story of one grassland“, “I will go out to smoke“ provokes a bit, but matches changing thematic content and form.
In the earlier works of E. Kartanas signs and symbols, experiences, encoded in them were important. In the latest works, presented in the exhibition, dominate many emotions, that inspires the author for bold line, stylized, bright colors and shapes of the things by his creating world. The nature’s motive is important in the artist’s creation work. In one of his works – the saturation of flowers blossoms become separate work’s composition center, in other – stylized fragments of greenery, seedling, blue sun, painted by minimalized, primitive manner.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Frament’s from Rymantas Penkauskas exhibition
Photographer Rymantas Penkauskas’s personal photo exhibition “Sub Specie Aeternitatis“
This year, on the 16th of March (on Thursday), at 4 pm, in Kaunas cultural center “Home of Nation“ (Vytauto pr 79) was photographer Rymantas Penkauskas’s personal photo exhibition “Sub Specie Aeternitatis“ opening.
R. Penkauskas was born in 1953. He lives and creates in Kaunas. He has been given the status of Art Creator. The main sphere of his activity – artistic advert. The artist’s photographs are published in various publications. R. Penkauskas organizes personal artistic photography exhibitions, participates in group exhibitions, has been organized about 20 personal and group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. Rymantas Penkauskas’s photo exhibition “Sub Specie Aeternitatis“ stands out conceptual presentation and philosophical thinking. During the creative process the author has tried a few different kinds of photographic technologies, experimented, until the technique of silver bromides was chosen, it gave classical image of old photography to R. Penkauskas’s prints. In the photographer’s creation work the language of metaphors and symbols is important. R. Penkauskas’s photograph concentrates to the object, however, how it is seen, in which environment it exists, how the photographer succeeds to “catch“ it, this is the philosophical secret of frequent piece.
The exhibition will be till April 17.
The project is partly financed by Kaunas city municipality.
Photographer Robertas Misiukonis’s personal photo exhibition “TO HER OR THE MAELSTROM OF LIFE“
On the 22nd of March (on Wednesday), at 5 pm, in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music history department (address: L. Zamenhofo str 12) will be photographer Robertas Misiukonis’s personal exhibition “TO HER OR THE MAELSTROM OF LIFE“ opening.
Photographer Robertas Misiukonis lives and creates in Kaunas. Since 1981 he has been a member of Lithuanian union of photographers.
This photography has been created by using one of the oldest cyanotyping technique, when a photograph is printed by hands. In 2016 summer photographer Robertas Misiukonis’s creation work was presented in Lithuanian photo-art biennial “Photographic stories“, the biennial’s tutors: art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė and artist Jūratė Sližytė (Leitzkau, Germany). In this photo series each photograph is different and has its own creation story. The photo series tells about two persons relations and daily routine to the exhibitions’s viewer. The artist creates by using, not only cyanotyping, but also pinhole and analogue techniques of photography.
The exhibition will be till April 22. The exhibition organizers – “Gabrielė’s art gallery“. The exhibition’s partner – Kaunas city museum.
The text was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragments from Iridijus Švelnys and Irma Žaromskytė-Morkuckienė exhibition
Having no analogues, united photography, painting and music project “The point of contact“
This year, on the 21st of March, at 6 pm, in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music history department (L. Zamenhofo str 12), will be united, having no analogues in Lithuania, project’s presentation. Photographer Iridijus Švelnys together with painter Irma Žaromskytė-Morkuckienė will present exhibition “The point of contact“. The exhibition’s theme reflects the relation between a person and an instrument. During the exhibition’s opening will be playing saxophonist Aleksandras Lakšmanas and will be singing Milda Gadliauskaitė.
The project’s main idea – to give different interpretation results of conception through the same point of contact – musical instrument. Photographer Iridijus Švelnys present new photo series “Contact with instrument“, and painter Irma Žaromskytė-Morkuckienė – painting cycle “Instruments“.
Iridijus Švelnys, who creates atypical photography, which speaks the language of metaphors and symbols, lives and creates in Kaunas.
Painter Irma Žaromskytė-Morkuckienė was born and grew up in Radviliškis district. Currently she lives and creates in Panevėžys. In the mutual exhibition she expresses her attitude to music.
Talking about painting and photography the authors tell: “Photography – painting. Painting – photography. The contact through one and same point – musical instrument and person. Two creators of different spheres talk the same language by choosing the same theme. According to the authors, musical instruments are Soulmates, exciting the viewer‘s inside by different sounds. This – particular interpretation of conscious, that lets to reveal to certain emotion or mode. In the piece it is felt the relation of soul and body in philosophical level. In the dark background photograph it is revealed the sound of person and instrument with mysterious environment around us“. Both artists choose the same theme but their artistic decisions are different.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art galley“, the exhibition‘s partner – Kaunas city museum. The exhibition will run till April 22.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Photographer Eglė Ščerbinskaitė‘s personal photo exhibition “Life as a journey“
This year, on the 20th of March (on Monday), in Lithuanian Education History museum (address: Vytauto pr 52) will be photographer Eglė Ščerbinskaitė‘s personal photo exhibition “Life as a journey“ opening. In the exhibition‘s opening will participate the Ballet dancers: mother – Sandra Drodvilaitė Zienienė, daughter – Samanta Zieniūtė.
Photographer Eglė Ščerbinskaitė lives and creates in Kaunas. She often organizes personal photo exhibitions in Lithuania, also, she participates in group exhibitions abroad. In her creation work the artist pays a lot of attention to the photography of people and travels. She get her education in VDA Kaunas Art faculty, textile department. Later she was improving her knowledge remotely in “Photography institute“, in New York. Probably the education abroad helped to create her own and exclusive style to E. Ščerbinskaitė. Since 2016 the photographer has been collaborating with “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“.
In the exhibition photographer Eglė Ščerbinskaitė presents colored and uncolored photo series “Life as a journey“. The photo series has been created while traveling around Greece, Koso island. In the author‘s photographs the connection with the environment around characters is very important, in this way themes are born to new pieces as well. In E. Ščerbinskaitė‘s creation work the themes of human body and ballet are significant, exactly that reflects in this photo series. To the author especially important is the pictorial character‘s not only outside but, also, psychological beauty. Tones distribution of dark and light effects is very significant in the photograph‘s content.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“. The exhibition‘s partner – Lithuanian Education History museum.
Text was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Painter Egidija Brinkytė‘s exhibition “25th shot“
Since this year, March 14th, in Kaunas city museum, Lithuanian national music history department (address: L. Zamenhofo str 4), runs painter of young generation Egidija Brinkytė‘s personal exhibition “25th shot“. The meeting with painter Egidija Brinkytė will be this year, April 12th, at 5 pm.
The painter lives and creates in Klaipėda. In 2015 in Šiauliai university she get painting master‘s degree, also, she was granted the status of Art Creator from LR Culture ministry. Painter E. Brinkytė organizes personal exhibitions, currently, she has been organized about 30 personal exhibitions. Also, she participates in group exhibitions – about 36 – in Lithuania and abroad.
This time the painter presents her paintings series “25th shot“. In the exhibition the author presents the paintings that were created in 2012-2016. Egidija Brinkytė has created cycles of the paintings in her painting collection: “Music of Angels“, “Burning of Tytuvėnai convent“, “Fragments of Zypliai manor“, “Homestead of Orvidai“, “Transformation“, and this time the painter presents the cycle of painting pieces “25th shot“.
“In the exhibition I present the paintings, created by minimalist manner. In the canvas dominate subtle tones and half-tones of the colors. In the paintings I reach to impart that, what we can see in space. The paintings drown everyone individually to the space, where things and silhouettes disappear, but everyone can see his own illusion. In the exhibition the paintings drown us to the hidden 25th shot, which we don‘t see but we feel that it exists“ – painter Egidija Brinkytė was telling.
The exhibition will run till April 15th. The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“, the exhibition‘s partner- Kaunas city museum.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Painter Rita Rimšienė‘s personal exhibition of the painting works “Pleasant memories“
This year, on February 23, in Lithuanian Education History museum (address: Vytauto pr 52) will run painter Rita Rimšienė‘s personal exhibition of the painting works “Pleasant memories“. During the event performer of the author songs Ilona Papečkytė will be playing by guitar. During the exhibition‘s opening the attention will be paid to music, the music is applied to painter Rita Rimšienė‘s paintings. In this exhibition the painter will present her latest cycle of paintings, that are inspired by nature and changing seasons theme, when winter‘s stage is over and passes to awaken spring themes.
Painter Rita Rimšienė lives and creates in Kaunas. Since 2016 R. Rimšienė has been collaborating with “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“: http://www.gabrielegallery.eu/rita-rimsiene/. Last year the painter has released her creation work album, which represents this professional artist‘s ten years of creativity. Since 2008 R. Rimšienė has been organizing personal exhibitions and participating in group exhibitions with other professional artists in Lithuania and abroad.
In her exhibition painter R. Rimšienė presents these latest works, large format paintings, created by using the technique of canvas and oil (the paintings have been created in 2016-2017): “Grassland of Sun“, “Dance of Linden trees“, “Bloomy Rowans“, “Home of Nature“, “Evening“, “The Yellow Island“, “Salutes of Flowers“, “Morning in the Moss“, “Snowing“.
In the expressive works of painter R. Rimšienė dominate colors that are connected to the theme of seasons: yellow, green, blue. In the latest paintings of the painter dynamically reveals variety of the depicted world and the play of certain symbolic details in the abstract plane of the paintings.
The exhibition will run till March 20. The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“, the exhibition‘s partner – Lithuanian Education History museum.
The exhibition‘s tutor – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s personal photo exhibition “Lithuanian Old Towns“
On 2017 January 11th (on Wednesday), at 5 pm, in Lithuanian Education History museum (Vytauto pr 52, Kaunas) will be photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s personal photo exhibition “Lithuanian Old Towns“ opening.
Photographer Iridijus Švelnys lives and creates in Kaunas. Currently, he improves his knowledge remotely in Photography institute, in New York. The author has already been interested in photography twenty years. He was working by using different techniques and technologies: and analogue, and modern. Currently, the photographer creates by using digital technologies of photography. In the photographs of Iridijus Švelnys there are motives of nature, manors, old towns architecture fragments from all around the world. In the frequent photograph it is fixated the human too. The photo series “Lithuanian Old Towns“ was created in 2016. It has already been presented in Lithuanian Photo Art biennial “Photographic stories“ (biennial‘s tutors: art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė, artist Jūratė Sližytė) in Historical Barons Miunhausen family castle, in Germany, also, in National Kaunas Drama Theater.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“, the exhibition‘s partner – Lithuanian Education History museum. The exhibition will run till February 11th.
The exhibition‘s tutor – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Photographer Kristina Valasevičienė‘s personal photo exhibition “Lightboxes“
In Kaunas city museum, M. and K. Petrauskas Lithuanian Music History department (address: K. Petrausko str 31), on November 8th, at 4 pm, will be photographer Kristina Valasevičienė‘s personal photo exhibition “Lightboxes“ opening.
Photographer Kristina Valasevičienė has been photographing ten years. Currently, she is the chairperson of Kaunas Photo Club. She has participated in many international photography contests in Lithuania and abroad.
Talking about this cycle of the photographs, the photographer tells: “Light and dark. Play of the opposites. Even when I was little, I liked to watch, how through the window shining light slinks on the floor, walls, surfaces of the things, by creating various patterns. Or brightly enlightened various objects it creates their doubles and like the existence of the parallel world. Without a light there isn‘t a shadow. Without the shadow we won‘t see, how bright is the light. One without the other unable, complementary each other two opposite poles. Together merging and creating various scripts, signs. They are everywhere, where is able to infiltrate even the slightest ray of the light – and on the magnificent buildings, and in the corner of the small room, and in the bright interiors, and in the glade of the forest. The scripts, that we can read as the book of the moment. Because the next moment will be already other signs, other scripts, other book. Just watch and read.“
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“. The exhibition will run till December 23rd.
The exhibition‘s tutor – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Kristina Sereikaitė‘s photograph from series “Innocence“
Photographer Kristina Sereikaitė‘s personal exhibition “INNOCENCE“
From this year, October 25th, in National Kaunas Drama Theater Rūta‘s hall lobby (address: Laisvės al 71) will be young generation‘s photographer Kristina Sereikaitė‘s personal photo exhibition “Innocence“.
Kristina Sereikaitė lives and creates in Vilnius. In 2002-2005 she was studying in Vilnius Technologies and Design college. In 2007 she was studying Photography in National Photography school in Arli. Also, in Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy she graduated Video operator‘s studies program and get bachelor‘s (in 2010) and Cinematic master‘s degrees (in 2012). In 2015 she became a laureate of Photography contest “Moment of Gentleness“, dedicated to Robert Doisneau, which was organized by French cultural center. Since 2013 Kristina Sereikaitė has been a member of Lithuanian Union of Photographers and Lithuanian Union of Cinematic Operators. Since 2005 she has been participating in exhibitions. The photographer has already organized about 20 personal photo exhibitions in Lithuania, Finland, Denmark, France. Also, the author has participated in more than twenty group exhibitions in Lithuania, Canada, London, France, the USA and elsewhere.
In National Kaunas Drama Theater‘s space presented exhibition has been created by using non-traditional, modern photo technique, all photographs of the exhibition have been printed on metal plates. In Kristina Sereikaitė‘s creation work merge elements of Photography and Cinematographic Art. In her works the author doesn‘t aim to separate the sexuality. In these theatrical photographs the Woman‘s character has been incarnated by well known and famous actor Benas Šarka. Visual effects and mystified relation of the heroe with the environment and elements around him/her are very important.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“. The exhibition will run till November 20.
The exhibition‘s tutor – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Painter Rita Rimšienė‘s personal exhibition “Alluring Rhythm“
From this year, October 25th, in Anykščiai Cultural center will be painter Rita Rimšienė‘s personal exhibition “Alluring Rhythm“ opening. The author lives and creates in Kaunas. She has been participating in exhibitions since 2008. She has already organized 19 personal exhibitions, she has participated in 20 group exhibitions, also – in international plein-airs.
In painting exhibition “Alluring Rhythm“ the author presents these works: “Maelstrom of Passion“ (2016), “Oasis of Nature“ (2015), “The Swan‘s Path“ (2015), “Waiting“ (2013), “Mysticism“ (2015), “Autumn‘s Tricks“ (2016), “Explosion“ (2015), “Path of Fire“ (2015), “Alluring Rhythm“ (2016).
In the exhibition there is presented abstract painting works cycle, that concludes of solid narration, in which dominate colors and abstract lines, expression of abstract accents and signs. Through colorful combinations and contrasts, abstract stylistics the author develops her own sight of the world.
In the creation work of Rimšienė the themes of landscape, still life transform, become the reflection of life-long experience, the instant sign of commonness. In the author‘s paintings the attention is paid not to realistic but to abstractedly expressive dramatic world‘s expression of the artist. In large format canvas it is important the rhythm of touch, decorative line and, in some paintings, highlighted texture.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Rita Rimšienė, painting “Conversation“, canvas, oil, 80×140 cm, 2014.
Painter Rita Rimšienė‘s personal painting exhibition “Conversation“
From this year, October 10, in National Kaunas Drama Theater cafe (address: Laisvės al 71) will be painter Rita Rimšienė‘s personal exhibition “Conversation“. Painter Rita Rimšienė lives and creates in Kaunas. Since 2008 she has organized 18 personal exhibitions, also, she actively participates in group exhibitions. In chamber exhibition the author presents these works: “Mask“, “Conversation“, “Yellow-cheek“, “Pink dreams“ and others.
The exhibition‘s name is connected to one of exhibited paintings “Conversation“. It is like the invitation for dialogue, conversation, discussion. In the author‘s expressive abstraction dominate strong emotion and mood. In R. Rimšienė‘s painting there is frequent transformed motive of nature, which becomes abstract colorful nuance, form allusion. In the frequent name there are hidden different creation stories of the painting, the theme gets dynamic and acceleration in big format canvas.
The exhibition will run till November 30.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“.
The exhibition‘s tutor – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Alis Balbierius‘s personal photo exhibition “Ice Inclinations“
In Kaunas city museum, M. and K. Petrauskas Lithuanian Music History department, on October 11th (on Tuesday), at 4 pm, will be Alis Balbierius‘s personal photo exhibition “Ice Inclinations“ opening. During the exhibition‘s opening the author will read Haiku about winter, snow and ice, also, Marius Paulikas and Giedrius Balbierius will play glass cups, pieces of ice and the blown musical instruments.
The exhibition is partly financed by Lithuanian Cultural Council, the exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“. The exhibition will run till November 3.
Alis Balbierius‘s exhibition “Ice Inclinations“ is presented by philosopher, essayist, writer, literary critic, doctor of Humanities, professor of Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences Jūratė Baranova.
Jūratė Baranova
ALIS BALBIERIUS‘S ICE INCLINATIONS
When a poet photographs, he inevitably creates the image, which can be interpreted literally. And because I am not a real specialist of Photography, I can try to sing the photographs of Balbierius half philosophically, half literally. Because I‘ve just finished my new book, I came to look the exhibition, and my first look was interested: maybe I will find something from the exhibition to my book‘s cover. But I realized right away, that this is a different meeting with photographs of Alis. Different experience. The first thought was sadness, maybe even fright: eschatological feeling. That how it will look our precious daily routine‘s things after the end of the world. And during the millenniums only apathetic to our fate stars will meditate these crumbs of the things, precious to us – the frozen inclinations – far from the empyrean. We could say, this exhibition – is the black period to Alis Balbierius. But there are different and various of them. Balbierius experiments.
And exactly that experiment gives a relief in the exhibition. It opens our relation with things, which usually we don‘t focus on in daily routine. Our attitude to the things is always instrumental: broken scissors annoys, because it doesn‘t let to cut something, stopped clock disorganizes, because we can be late. The things are always after us and for us: we are the most important. Balbierius flips this relation upside down. In this exhibition the things become the most important, that they were, they are, left without human, unnecessary and useless. Balbierius stops the cognition and makes to meditate. The more beautiful, the more scary, because all of the things leave frozen for centuries. They won‘t revive, won‘t come back. Finally, this is the exhibition about irreversibility of time, about loss, not only of the things.
In the National Kaunas Drama Theater cafe runs painter Jovita Glemžaitė-Matuzienė‘s personal exhibition “IN THE THOUGHT‘S CYCLE“. Jovita Glemžaitė-Matuzienė is the middle generation‘s painter. In 1977 she graduated from J. Naujalis Art School. In 1978-1984 she was studying in Vilnius Art Academy, get a specialty of painter-pedagogue. Currently the artist lives and creates in Kaunas. The painter works as an art teacher supervisor in A. Martinaitis Art school. Since 1992 she has been a member of Lithuanian artists union. Since 1988 she has been intensely participating in group exhibitions and she has been organizing author exhibitions. She has organized exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad – in the international exhibitions – Greece, Germany, Chicago.
In the chamber exhibition of Jovita Glemžaitė-Matuzienė‘s painting works there are presented abstract painting images, oriented to different themes. Each painting work‘s creation story is individual, connecting various colorings to fragmentary narration. The abstract exhibition‘s level is marked by the names of the exhibited pieces: “Moment“, “On the road“, “Archeology of Memory“, “Soldier“, “Iguana“, “Landscape to Soldier“, “Green Iguana“, “Shore“, triptych “Coast“. The painter, asked how the idea to call the exhibition “IN THE THOUGHT‘S CYCLE“ was born, says: “It is the endless cycle between life and death, it is the cycle between the beginning and the end“. According to the author, everything spins around in the life. Therefore, in her creation work the motive of circle, wheel, which marks commonness, inside abstract slides and inspirations, is not accidental. The author is inspired to her creation work by nature, by charismatic personalities, sometimes the creative ideas born after touched the past, looked through old albums of photographs.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“. The exhibition will run till October 10.
The exhibition‘s tutor – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Iridijus Švelnys‘s photo-psycho-philosophic exhibition “Lithuanian Old Towns“
From September 1 in National Kaunas Drama Theater (address: Laisvės al 71), in Rūta‘s Hall Lobby, will be photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s personal exhibition from series “Lithuanian Old Towns“.
In his creation work the author uses “eye of fish“ method in many works, therefore, the photographic view concentrates around the shape of circle, seeing the angle of 180 degrees. The author has been interested in Photography more than 20 years. He began to photograph by using ZENIT camera. He has been working by using different techniques and technologies. This photo cycle was printed by using one of the latest glass and acrylic technologies.
The photographer, asked how the idea to create this photo series about Lithuanian Old Towns was born, says: “The series was shooted by lying down on the pavement in many Lithuanian old towns. The idea to photograph in a different way the old towns of Lithuania, other countries has already come long time ago. By walking or riding we don‘t see all corners of the old towns and we don‘t stop to watch them from different angles. In various times of the day each corner of the old town changes not only its color, form, esthetics, but, also, in each angle appear tiny details, that we don‘t see or don‘t notice, by walking everyday. Let‘s try together with the author lie down on the pavement in the old town, and by looking to the sky feel the role of observer. And the role – You are a small ant in this world. You are alone, You are nothing. However, that beauty, which we see, has been made not by one ant but by million of ants. Let‘s experience the unfelt sensation, let‘s admit our fantasies to reality. Let‘s be different, and not only then when we are lying down on the pavement. In each photograph it is fixated the author, we can‘t see him, but we can feel, that he is there, it is simple.It is an atypical attitude to the creation of photography, when the author fixates not only visual, philosophical but, also, emotional, energetic aspect, that lets to empathize.
The exhibition’s organizers – “Gabrielė’s art gallery“. You can visit the exhibition before performances. The exhibition will run till October 20.
Fragments from photographer Iridijus Švelnys’s exhibition:
Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Painter Kristina Čivilytė’s painting
In Kaunas city museum’s Lithuanian Music History department of M. and K. Petrauskas in 2016 September 6, at 5 pm, will be Kristina Čivilytė’s abstract painting works exhibition’s opening.
Although, it is the tenth personal exhibition of the artist, there are different themes, colorful discoveries too. The artist’s palette of the pieces consists of light and foggy but sometimes bright and autumn lush – expressive colors. Because of their abstract character the artist’s works tell a different story of the plot to every viewer. It is like an individual personal journey to inside impressions, memories, past’s mirages and future’s sand castles. The artist uses mixed and pure techniques: she paints by acrylic and oils. She wants to give to her works an additional expression through the texture – uses special putty. The artist paints according to her mood and current feelings, she relies on her own experience, impressions of the latest past, that she takes from the walk in a park or seafront’s beaches.
The exhibition will run till October 8. The exhibition’s organizers – “Gabrielė’s art gallery“.
Agnė Bartišiūtė-Janušienė
Oksana Judakova’s photograph from series “And own, and foreign land. Altai“.
Oksana Judakova’s personal photo exhibition “And own, and foreign land. Altai“.
This year, on August 2nd (on Tuesday), at 4 pm, in Kaunas city museum’s Lithuanian Music History department of M. and K. Petrauskas (address: K. Petrausko str 31) will be graphic artist Oksana Judakova’s photo exhibition “And own, and foreign land. Altai“ opening.
Oksana Judakova was born in 1972 in Altai. She grew up in Lithuania. In Tytuvėnai she graduated from the high school, studied applied graphics in Kaunas college, J. Vienožinskis art faculty, and in VDA, Kaunas art institute, where she get arts bachelor‘s degree. In 2003-2012 the artist was living in New York. A few years ago her family and she came back to live to Lithuania. Currently the graphic artist is a member of Lithuanian Union of Artists, lives and creates in Vepriai, Ukmergė‘s district. Although, Oksana Judakova creates graphic arts, also, in the latest years she exhibits photo exhibitions too.
In the exhibition Oksana Judakova presents the collection of photographs about Altai land. It is a photographic story, inspired by the familiar to her land’s beauty, based on the artist’s diarie’s narrations about Altai, where she was born, and the mysticism of mountains. The artist tells about this land: “ALTAI. Rare who has heard this name will ask again what and where is it. This land is known by travelers and lovers of mountains by its rich beauty of nature, history, authentic life style. It is known by deportees. It is known by the walkers through the spiritual path. It is widely known Altai’s medicated herbs, roots and honey power. Altai is own to me because I was born there. Altai is foreign. Because Lithuania and Altai are separated by a pile of money, visas, kilometres, geopolitical situations in the world and million tiny jobs, businesses and worries, in which we are drowned in our daily life“.
The exhibition will run till August 31.
The exhibition’s organizers – “Three villages“ and “Gabrielė’s art gallery“.
The exhibition’s tutor – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Painter Violeta Rudinskaitė-Juodzevičienė’s personal exhibition “Yellow Sunday“
Tapytojos Violetos Rudinskaitės- Juodzevičienės personalinė paroda „Geltonas sekmadienis“
From this year July 1st in Kaunas city museum’s Lithuanian Music History department of M. and K. Petrauskas (address: K. Petrausko str 31) will be living and creating in Kaunas painter Violeta Rudinskaitė-Juodzevičienė’s personal painting works exhibition “Yellow Sunday“.
Violeta Rudinskaitė-Juodzevičienė graduated from Kaunas J. Naujalis high school of arts in 1971. In 1977 she graduated from State art institute (current Vilnius art academy), where she get a specialty of painter. The artist has been participating in exhibitions since 1980. She has organized personal exhibitions in Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland, Poland. Also, she participates in group exhibitions, she is a participant of various plein airs. Since 1990 she has been a member of Lithuanian Union of Artists. The artist teaches in Kaunas A. Martinaitis Art School.
In the exhibition’s title painter V. Rudinskaitė-Juodzevičienė mentions Sunday not accidentally: the festival’s feeling in the pieces is created by bright coloring’s help, in many exhibition’s works dominates yellow color, unexpectedly expressive combinations of colors. In this exhibition the artist presents pieces created in 2007-2016. The exhibition’s works names update cyclicity of the nature and symbolism related to nature’s realities: “Autumn’s rain“ (2008), “Sun light“ (2012), “Signs I“ (2007), “Signs II“ (2008).
The exhibition will run till July 30.
The exhibition’s organizers – “Gabrielė’s art gallery“.
The exhibition’s tutor – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Fragments from painter Violeta Rudinskaitė’s exhibition. Pictures were taken by Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Painter Rūta Levulienė‘s personal painting works‘s exhibition
This year, on the 10th of June (on Friday), at 4 pm, in Kaunas city museum‘s M. and K. Petrauskas‘s Lithuanian music history department (address: K. Petrauskas str 31) will be painter Rūta Levulienė‘s personal painting works exhibition‘s opening.
Painter R. Levulienė has been organizing personal exhibitions and has been actively participating in group exhibitions since 2014. She has already organized 6 personal exhibitions and has already participated in 10 group exhibitions. To the author‘s creation work have had an influence painters such as famous painter Antanas Obcarskas, painter Violeta Juodzevičienė, artist Lukas Kalmogercovas.
Telling about what inspires her for creation, painter R. Levulienė says: “To my creation work constantly make an influence various experiences of life, nature‘s images, feelings. Not always I can express everything by words, but the inside constantly fills of various feelings and emotions, that I want to express. Then I try to impart various turns of the life and strong feelings by colors“ (“Several New Romuva‘s questions to the artist“, 25th page, New Romuva, 2015, No 3).
Created paintings of R. Levulienė stand out by informative content – they are like a message, which is wanted to give to the viewer. Her creation work is colorful and emotional – in the canvas of abstract paintings it is important to the artist to impart emotions, feelings and perceptions. Also, to the author it is important the painting process, when uneven geometrical shapes rhythmics is composed in the painting‘s space. In this way the artist R. Levulienė translates the story, which is expressed through colors from the painting. In the author‘s pieces it is very important not only symbols, but, also, metaphors‘s language. In one group of the paintings dominate abstract landscapes, in others – decorative and abstract images, that consist of different themes. The artistic narrative of each painting is enhanced by brightly red color, also, in almost each painting dominate blue, greenish, yellow and other colors. In the exhibition Rūta Levulienė presents these paintings: “Broadcast“, “Butterflies“, “Landscape of May“, “Twilight“, “In the Forest“, “Emptiness of the Heart“, “Decision“, “Process“, “Four Elements“ and other paintings.
The exhibition will run till June 30.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“. The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Painter Rūta Levulienė near her painting “Broadcast“, picture was taken by Antanas Untydi
In National Kaunas Drama Theater‘s cafe – personal painting works‘s exhibition of Rūta Levulienė
From this year, May 10, in National Kaunas Drama Theater‘s cafe (address: Laisvė alley 71) has been running author Rūta Levulienė‘s painting works‘s exhibition.
In Rūta Levulienė‘s paintings, both in terms of titles and content, lies intrigue. The source of inspiration of the artist‘s creation work is nature, therefore, often in her paintings there are met abstract landscapes, there is revealed the inside world of feelings, and, also, it is important the relation with outside world. The paintings stand out esthetics: they are bright, expressive, a lot of attention is paid to abstract shape and variety, visual and artistic narrative from geometric broken and unbroken stories.
In National Kaunas Drama Theater‘s cafe R. Levulienė presents these paintings: “Blue green“, “Cry“, “Storks learn to fly“, “Improvisation of still life“, “Improvisation of still life II“, “Impression“, “Birthday“, “Overload“, “Landscape Burn“, “Oblivion“ etc.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“ and “Ruta Levu Art Gallery“.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Fragments from Rūta Levulienė‘s exhibition
Modern photography exhibition “Daily life“
This year, on April 13, at 6 pm, in National Taras Schevchenko museum (address: Boulevard 12, Kiev) will open modern Lithuanian photography exhibition “Daily life“ (1963-2013). This exhibition – is one of the most important international project‘s between Lithuania and Ukraine “Lithuania-Ukraine. Cultural partnership 2016“ part.
In the exhibition there are presented different generations‘s famous photographers – Romualdas Požerskis, Algirdas Šeškus, Vitas Luckus, Arturas Valiauga, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, Aleksandras Macijauskas, Donatas Stankevičius, Antanas Sutkus, Gintaras Česonis, Algimantas Kunčius, Romualdas Rakauskas – creation work.
This exhibition – is visual story of daily Lithuanian life, when in the horizon of last 50 years have happened still new and new things, topicalities, moods and tonalities. During this period have formed three generations of photographers. Each of the generations stands out its themes, distinctive manner, but, also, each generation has kept a desire to present the topicalities of their time. Every day happen different things. Our all life consists of daily routine‘s moments. In the daily life – everything is understandable, and for this reason it doesn‘t catch the eye, however, it still remains extremely important.
The exhibition‘s organizers: Taras Shevchenko National museum in Kiev, Kaunas department of Lithuanian union of photographers, Lithuanian cultural institute.
Photograph from series “Lithuania 1988-1993“
On the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the renewal of Lithuania independence in Foreign Office there is exhibited famous photographer Romualdas Požerskis‘s exhibition “Lithuania 1988-1993“, in which presented photographs reveal surprising courage and self-determination to live in freedom of thousands of Lithuanian people. The exhibition will run till April 29. If You want to attend the exhibition, please register by E-mail viesojidiplomatija@urm.lt.
2016 began by the 25th anniversary of the bloody January events, that recreated tragical events of the history, their personal testimonies. Romualdas Požerskis’s author exhibition “Lithuania 1988-1993“, that fixated painful and meaningful Lithuanian Statehood events, was presented in Small Lithuania history museum, in Klaipėda, also, abroad – in Lithuanian Republican embassy, in Warsaw, in Lithuanian permanent representatives European Union rooms, in Brussels, and in Lithuanian Republican embassy, in Russian Federation. In Moscow together with R. Požerskis’s photographs there are exhibited several pictures of Russian photographers, in which have been fixated rallies in Moscow, supporting Lithuania, during 1991 January events.
“The most dreadful was in 1991, January 12, 13. In the evening, when I turned on TV, it turned out that in Vilnius began the occupation of television. Without thinking I began to put my phototechnics to bag. I left my crying wife, little kids, I sat in my car and went to Vilnius. I spent three day in the Highest Council building. During that hours I hadn‘t had experienced nothing more worse in my life. I had to photograph injured bodies of young people. Later these photographs were included to 1991 January 13 file as justiciary documents“.
In 2003 R. Požerskis was preparing the exhibition in Germany about Lithuanian political events, this exhibition was dedicated to mention the decade of the Soviet Armie‘s withdrawal from Lithuania. The annotation to the exhibition was written by Restored Parliament‘s chairman professor Vytautas Landsbergis.
R. Požerskis‘s photographs, in which have been fixated the Movement‘s actions, were selected and exhibited in exhibition World Press Photo, in 1989 in Amsterdam, they were published in the exhibition‘s catalog too. The photographs of R. Požerskis were published in album The Gift of Vilnius, Public Affairs Council, in Chicago in 1991. The photographs of political events were published in the press of Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and other countries.
Information about the exhibition have been given by “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“.
Gvidas Latakas‘s painting works‘s exhibition “Dream of the Knight“
Since this year, April 4, in National Kaunas Drama Theater‘s cafe has been running Gvidas Latakas‘s painting works‘s exhibition “Dream of the Knight“.
Gvidas Latakas has been living and creating in Kaunas since 1998. He is not only a painter but, also, he is a jeweler, writes poems, has been published several books of poetry. Also, he works a pedagogical job in Kaunas national cultural center. Since 1997 he has been participating in exhibitions. The artist has earnt several awards for his arts and poetry.
In Gvidas Latakas‘s painting pieces there are hidden stories, that consist of images, situations, links, from the painter‘s relation with the environment around him, historical heritage. In this pieces‘s collection we can notice that in the artist‘s creation work the important themes and metaphors become the dreaming knight, the island of fishes, even – the hill of fishes. By talking about the painting pieces‘s cycle “Dream of the Knight“, Gvidas Latakas says: “those my works, canvas are like peculiar signs of the salvation, things of the happy person. They, constantly improving, recoloring, retelling, become peculiar testimonies, manic poors‘s bible, biblia pauperum, which tells stories by painted images for those who can‘t read“.
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s art gallery“.
Edmundas Kartanas painting works‘s exhibition “PERSPECTIVE“
This year, on March 22, at 6 pm, in Kaunas cultural center “Home of Nation“ (address: Vytautas pr 79) will be the first Edmundas Kartanas painting works‘s exhibition “PERSPECTIVE“.
Edmundas Kartanas was born in 1973 in Šiauliai. Since 2003 he was living in Kaunas, currently, he lives in Kaunas district, in Vandžiogala. E. Kartanas has been interested in painting and drawing since his childhood. Currently he actively participates in artistic and cultural life. The artist has already participated in group exhibitions: recently the author participated in yearly art‘s exhibition “Rebirth“, which was in Girstutis palace.
Exhibition “PERSPECTIVE“ – is the first personal exhibition of the painter. The story of painter E. Kartanas‘s interest in art is quite traditional. He has been interested in art since the childhood. First, E. Kartanas began to draw the portraits of familiar people, natural landscapes, later on, marine themes became close too. He has been interested a lot in Russian artists painting. After a little in the life of E. Kartanas a particular turn happened and a new perspective appeared. The author began to attend adults painting studio of famous painter abstract artist Antanas Obcarskas to get more acquaintance with the refinements of abstract and painting art. Being one of the active studio‘s members E. Kartanas chose the path of abstract painting. The artist expresses his various turns of his thinking and thoughts through touches, color and line, often the planes of touches become expressive, and between different coloring, broken lines and rhythmical shapes, it can be seen philosophical and existential thinkings, that are often encouraged by unconventional titles of the paintings, such as “Essential break“ or “Where are you“.
By sharing thoughts about the painting, Edmundas Kartanas says: “In the pieces I search and I want to show the perspective, which is not necessarily drawn through line, but it could be depicted through tone or color‘s change. Also, it is interesting that PERSPECTIVE has other meaning too – it is planning, vision of the future, perspective of the past, when it can be compared, where I was, who I am and where I‘m going“.
The information for press was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
Gintaras Jaronis‘s photo exhibition “Fragments. Journey to Yourself“
On the 17th of March, at 6 pm, in Kaunas Artists‘s Home (address: V. Putvinskis str 56) will be opened Gintaras Jaronis‘s photo exhibition “Fragments. Journey to Yourself“. The journey – it is not only the change of geographic location, by moving physically from one place to another, but, also, it is the path to yourself: to memories, to the change of moods and states of mind; it is the road to the knowledge of subconsciousness images, which are often very unlike to the usual world of everyday life.
The most part of exhibited pieces consists of photographs from the travel around South France. This region is especially charming by its small towns, of which architecture has remained authentic and has been almost untouched by the modernization of XX century.
The author uses various ways of expression in his creation work. The tendency to innovations, the pursuit of artistic expression have brought him to the photography in the spectrum of infrared light. To achieve this aim it is used modified digital camera. By taking pictures of nature or urban views reveals different than usual visual content; expose the structure of images, graphic art; the photographs get fairy, often – mystical attributes.
Also, there are exhibited photographs from the series of creative pieces “Reflections“ in the exhibition. They are like painting etudes, performed by using the camera. In this series the images have been connected to the most unexpected combinations of colors and shapes by the surface of water, also – the reflections of port buildings and ships, that were at that time in the ports. In this series the images are often reduced to artistic abstraction, to colorful combination, which has just a few elements, or to level of graphic sign.
The exhibition runs from 2016 March 14 till April
Modern Lithuanian Metallic Artists’ works exhibition “Spuren“ (“Footprints“)
On the 15th of March in Berlin, Giedrė Bartelt‘s gallery “Trophy“, will be opened exhibition “Spuren“ (“Footprints“) of five modern Lithuanian metallic artists‘ works.
Modern Lithuanian metallic art and jewelry characterize conceptuality, subtlety, great knowledge of technique and craft. In exhibition “Spuren“, presented in Berlin, five different generations‘ authors show their works: laureate of 2013 Government‘s premium, one of the most famous Lithuanian metallic artists, Birutė Stulgaitė, her younger colleagues Šarūnė Vaitkutė, Eglė Čėjauskaitė-Gintalė, Vita Pukštaitė-Bružė and the youngest generation‘s author, studied in Lithuania, Netherlands and Iceland – Benas Staškauskas.
In exhibition “Spuren“ can be seen very different authors, using in their creation work both traditional jewelery materials – gold, silver, enamel, precious stones, and lava or concrete. Amber, which is important to Lithuanian culture, takes a meaningful place in the exhibition. It is especially presented by Birutė Stulgaitė, who, according to her, is able to understand “what amber wants“. In the exhibition are presented more than fifty latest works; most of the pieces were created specially for this exposition. That are fragile and subtle Vita Pukštaitė-Bružė‘s plants-pins from silver and enamel, aristocratic and restrained Šarūnė Vaitkutė‘s works, relying on Lithuanian tradition Eglė Čėjauskaitė-Gintalė‘s jewelry and by modern language talking, massive, extravagant Benas Staškauskas‘s works from lava, concrete and gold.
Not only every artist‘s hands but, also, the thought leave footprints in metal; that footprints make every piece unique. The exhibited pieces radiate respect for material, harmony of quality and idea; together they tell five different stories, that get the shapes of jewelry. Formica and silver, amber, lava and precious stones talk about the inspiration and quiet, flight, human and nature, and, of course, about Lithuania. In the works interlace past and present, artists‘ wish to tell about that, what it is the most important to them today, insolence and together respect for used materials. “XXI centurie‘s professional Lithuanian jewelry isn‘t especially provocative; it‘s not cruel, drastic or barbaric luxurious. It is gentle, restrained, perfunctory and ironic, both according to myself and to wearers. However, first of all, it is conceptual and original“, says the exhibition‘s curator Dr Jurgita Ludavičienė. In Berlin Lithuanian footprints of artists‘ thoughts and hands reveal panorama of modern Lithuanian metallic art: professional, spectacular and together subtle.
In the exhibition‘s opening will participate Šarūnė Vaitkutė and Dr Jurgita Ludavičienė.
The opening of exhibition “Spuren“ (“Footprints“) of five modern Lithuanian metallic artists‘ works will be on the 15th of March. The exhibition will be exhibited from March 15 till March 20 in Giedrė Bartelt‘s gallery “Trophy“, in Berlin, Wielandstr 31, 10629 Berlin-Charlottenburg, Phone: 0049/30/8852086, info@trofejas.com
The announcement for press was prepared according to the exhibition’s curator Dr Jurgita Ludavičienė’s text.
Photographer Iridijus Švelnys’s personal exhibition “In life everything is simple but not easy“
This year, on the 9th of March, in Lithuanian Republican embassy, in Berlin, will be opened the first personal photo exhibition of photographer Iridijus Švelnys “In life everything is simple but not easy“ in Germany.
Some time ago it was published new book of photographer Iridijus Švelnys “In life everything is simple but not easy“, in which he presents unconventional point of watching, non-traditional sight of environment and world. In his creation work the artist connects photography, psychology, philosophy. In his photographs there are motives of nature, mansions, old towns architecture fragments from various countries of the world. In the artistic composition of photography the harmonious whole of uncoloured background play and concord becomes an especially important accent to him. Signs and symbolism are focussed in his cycles of photographs or in separate pieces.
The opening of exhibition “In life everything is simple but not easy“ was the 9th of March, at 6-8 pm, by attending photographer Iridijus Švelnys and the exhibition‘s curator Gabrielė Kuizinaitė. The exhibition will be exhibited from March 10 till April 17 in LR embassy, in Berlin, Charitestr. 9, 10117.
The announcement for press was prepared according to the exhibition’s curator Gabrielė Kuizinaitė’s text.
More information: http://www.gabrielegallery.eu/iridijus-svelnys/
The exhibition’s organizers: LR Culture attache in Germany, “Gabrielė’s Art Gallery“.
The project’s partners: Lithuanian culture institute, LR embassy in Germany.
The exhibition and the artist’s visit in Berlin are sponsored by LR Culture ministry.
Contacts: Dr Gabrielė Žaidytė. Position: LR culture attache in Germany. Address: Charitestr. 9, Berlin. Phone: +4930 89068128. E-mail: g.žaidyte@lrkm.lt
Photographer Kristina Valasevičienė‘s chamber exhibition “Lightboxes“
Since this year, February 25 (on Thursday), in National Kaunas Drama Theater cafe will run photographer Kristina Valasevičienė‘s chamber photo exhibition “Lightboxes“.
Kristina Valasevičienė has been photographing already ten years. She has contributed to the foundation of Kaunas Photo club, currently, she is the club‘s president. Since 2010 she began to participate in mutual Kaunas Photo clubs exhibitions, and in KTU-PHOTO study members exhibitions the artist began – in 2010. In 2012 in Kaunas technology university it was organized the first author exhibition “Kaunas forts. Visions“. Later, the exhibition was presented in Kaunas artists house, in Klaipėda public library Art section, in J. and M. Šlapeliai museum, in Vilnius. Also, she has participated in some international photo contests in Lithuania and abroad. In 2014 her creation work was exhibited in international photographs‘ exhibition “The world through the eyes of the woman“, in Israel. In 2014 Kristina Valasevičienė became a finalist of Lithuanian photographers union contest “Debut“, among the winners several photographs from the cycle “Fragments of Time“ were exhibited in the mutual exhibition.
Talking about this cycle of photographs photographer Kristina Valasevičienė tells: “Light and dark. Play of the opposites. Even when I was little, I liked to watch, how through the window shining light slinks on the floor, walls, surfaces of the things, by creating various patterns. Or brightly enlightened various objects it creates their doubles and like the existence of the parallel world. Without a light there isn‘t a shadow. Without the shadow we won‘t see, how bright is the light. One without the other unable, complementary each other two opposite poles. Together merging and creating various scripts, signs. They are everywhere, where is able to infiltrate even the slightest ray of the light – and on the magnificent buildings, and in the corner of the small room, and in the bright interiors, and in the glade of the forest. The scripts, that we can read as the book of the moment. Because the next moment will be already other signs, other scripts, other book. Just watch and read.“
The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. The exhibition is sponsored by Kaunas Photo Club. The exhibition will run till March 27.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Since this year, February 1 (on Monday), in Business center “Vertas“ (address: Gynėjų str 16, Vilnius) will run author photographer Robertas Misiukonis‘s photo exhibition “TO HER or THE MAELSTROM OF LIFE“.
Robertas Misiukonis – a photographer of Kaunas city. In 1976 he set up KPI-PHOTO club. Since 1981 he has been a member of Lithuanian Union of Photographers; till 1984 he had been a Chairman of the Board, and since 1986 – Director of Club Art. From 1991 till 2014 the artist had been working as a director of KTU-PHOTO studio, since 2014 he has been working as a teacher of Photography in Kaunas Applied Art School and he is the project‘s curator of creative workshop UŽ RĖMŲ (BEHIND THE FRAMES). During the project‘s realization the photographer guides creative workshop, and in the meetings participate famous photographers and media artists. Photographer Robertas Misiukonis‘s creation work has many connections with directorial, presentations‘ photography, also, the artist creates by using the method of analogue photography.
In the exhibition photographer Robertas Misiukonis presents series of analogue photography “TO HER or THE MAELSTROM OF LIFE“. The photographs were created by using analogue photographie‘s technique, when photographs are printed by hands, they get blue shade. In each photograph the photographer depicts still another fragment, there is often depicted the portrait of woman, in some photographs there are images with an abstract from different details and photographic images‘ fragments. In the photographs there are very important details of human body: expressive face‘s lines, graceful bodie‘s forms. This photographer Robertas Misiukonis‘s photo series – like a diary from daily life fragments of two people.
The exhibition‘s organizers: “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“, Bussiness center “Vertas“ and Kaunas Applied Art School. The exhibition will run till February 29.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
We share photographs from photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s exhibition “In life everything is simple but not easy“. The exhibition was 2016-01-15. Pictures were taken by Algimantas Žukauskas.
Moments of the exhibition‘s opening with photographer Iridijus Švelnys, Kaunas Photo Club‘s president Kristina Valasevičienė, Gabrielė Kuizinaitė, Gražina Pašakarnienė and others.
On the 15th of January, at 7 pm, in Kaunas cultural center “Home of Nation“ (address: Vytauto pr 79) will be the opening of photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s interactive photo-psicho-philosophic exhibition “In life everything is simple but not easy“.
Photographer Iridijus Švelnys lives and creates in Kaunas. He studied radio electronics at Kaunas University of Technology, later he studied master of management at ISM. Two years he was learning drawing and painting at an artist Vytautas Laukys. I. Švelnys is a member of Kaunas Photo Club board. Currently he improves his knowledge of photography remotely in the institute of Photography, in New York. In his creative work the author almost in every photographic shot uses “the eye of fish“ method, accordingly, in his creative work a photographic image gets a round shape, seeing 180 degrees.
The author has already been interested in photography 20 years. He began to photograph using Zenit camera. He worked using different techniques and technologies: both analog and modern. Currently the photographer creates using digital technologies of photography.
Both in the published book of the photographer and in the exhibition presented photographs give a view point, a non-traditional sight of environment and world. The creative work of I. Švelnys is non-traditional in several aspects: he creates not only traditional photography, his created artistic narrative is connected with a psychological and philosophical component, and gets an original aspect of seeing the environment and a psychological emotional experience.
Talking about his creative work the photographer states: “Photography – is a visual measure to feel and to represent a conception ten times faster than it is written in letters. Philosophy – that is my aspiration. This is my ideal world, which I am chasing with my works, my actions, my challenges aiming the highest goals. Psychology – is the third component, which helps to feel an emotional feeling, to insert it to a current vision of the image.“
In the photographs of Iridijus Švelnys are motives of nature, mansions, old towns architecture fragments from all over the world. In the frequent photograph a portrait of human is fixed too. It could seem, that from accidentally met people, townscapes unexpected visions, the author creates an original emotional, psychological, philosophical and especially individual image of the world, human conception, that match philosophical names of many pictures: “Donor“, “Trap“, “Motel 55 E“, “Smile of companion“, “Swing“ and et al. The works of Iridijus Švelnys stand out from other pieces of Lithuanian photographers with modern photographic composition, unique esthetics of image “framing“, individual, interactive, catching the viewer story.
Visitors, came to the exhibition on the opening day, and registered on Facebook account by address: https://www.facebook.com/events/202162883451342 will get presents – photographer Iridijus Švelnys‘s book, published for the exhibition, “In life everything is simple but not easy“. Currently the photographer prepares for press his second photographic book, which will appear on spring. I. Švelnys‘s exhibition in “Home of Nation“ will run till February 29.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
In 2016, on the 9th of January, at 2 pm, in Kurhauz gallery of Birštonas will be the opening of united painting exhibition “Broadcasts“ of Kristina Čivilytė and Rūta Levulienė. At 3 pm in Kurhauz of Birštonas will be concert “Romantic piano“ (R. Zubovas and students of Vytautas Magnus Universitie‘s Music academy).
This year, on November 6, in Kaunas center of various nations‘ cultures (address: St. Gertrūda street 58) was opened the exhibition of A. Obcarskas painting studio‘s members. In this exhibition a wide range of artists exhibit their works: Laimutis Brundza, Kristina Čivilytė, Irma Gūžienė, Vanda Kaminskienė, Raimondas Karčiauskas, Edmundas Kartanas, Daiva Kupstienė, Rūta Levulienė, Jolita Lubienė, Lina Morkūnaitė-Vilkelienė, Ugnius Motiejūnas, Dainora Ramanauskienė, Rita Rimšienė, Gintarė Šiaulienė, Raimonda Tamošiūnaitė and Aušra Žukauskienė.
For several years now, Antanas Obcarskas brings together people of different specialties in his studio, by teaching them the art of painting. During the session every member of the studio finds his own style. In the exhibition presented works of the artists by dominant painting themes and styles are divided to several groups: Vanda Kaminskienė, Ugnius Motiejūnas, Lina Morkūnaitė-Vilkelienė represent the pure abstract painting style, the expressive abstraction‘s stylistics dominates in Rūta Levulienė‘s works, the pure abstract pieces are also created by Jolita Lubienė, Dainora Ramanauskienė and Rita Rimšienė, the paintings of Edmundas Kartanas and Raimonda Tamošiūnaitė stand out the realistic and traditional painting style.
Painters Rūta Levulienė, Vanda Kaminskienė and Lina Morkūnaitė-Vilkelienė have already formed abstract painting stylistics, organize author exhibitions, actively participate in mutual exhibitions of professional artists, also – in symposiums, plein-airs. In the exhibition painter Vanda Kaminskienė presents painting “Journey of the Thought“ (2014): the artist puts the journey from geometrical figures of expressive coloring, in which the traveler losts the connection of time and space. In the work strong emotions and mood dominate, there is presented the detailed story, consisting of mosaic palette of colors.
Member of the group, painter Edmundas Kartanas invites to look around Vilnius‘s Old Town in his painting. In the exhibition the artist presents painting “Evening in the Old Town“. In the creation work of this artist dominates realistic Lithuanian painting style. He reveals the beauty, the landscape of nightly Vilnius‘s Old Town in his painting.
In the creation work of painter Lina Morkūnaitė-Vilkelienė it is very important the variety of themes. In the exhibition the artist presents painting “Glass of Fruit“ (2015). L. Morkūnaitė-Vilkelienė creates the abstract painting style. In her still life dominates bright coloring, remindful autumnal shades.
Painter Rūta Levulienė presents work “Manitra“ (2014). In the painting‘s plane, like in many pictures of the artist, dominates red color, however, this time, the artistic narrative of the painting‘s content is unlike: signs of black color create different geometrical forms. In the piece it is very important the language of signs and geometric details.
Member of the group, painter Ugnius Motiejūnas paints the similar stylistics. In the exhibition he presents piece “Nemajūnai“ (2014), created during the plein-air of Nemajūnai. Here dominates the artistic story about home: in the background of the home dominates the coloring of greenish, dark and blue colors.
Painters Dainora Ramanauskienė, Rita Rimšienė, Jolita Lubienė create expressive stories on the topics of fire, rain and breakthrough, in which planes‘s bases dominates the red color.
There is a wide variety of styles and themes in the exhibition: still lifes, home, road, landscape, portrait, path of fire, and the genre of abstract landscape becomes the main accent of the exhibition. It is commendable, that the artists paint together not only in their free time but, also, they organize the mutual exhibitions of the group members, presented their creation work. The exhibition will run till December 1.
The information was prepared by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Retrospective exhibition “Abstractions of Photographica“ of photographers duet Dangirutė Maleckienė and Rimgaudas Maleckas
This year, on November 4, on Wednesday, at 12 pm, in Kaunas city municipalitie‘s administrative rooms (address: Laisvė alley 96) will be the opening of retrospective exhibition of photographers duet Rimgaudas Maleckas and Dangirutė Maleckienė.
About the artists and the exhibition:
Photographer Rimgaudas Maleckas is one of the most important modernistic photographie’s (photographica’s) initiators in Lithuania. In 1959 he graduated Kaunas’s J. Gruodis Musical school (Directing), and in 1982 he get Journalist‘s specialty in VU. In 1963 he and other artists set up Kaunas‘s Photo Club, also, he had been leading to it as a chairman for a long time. The photographer is a member of Lithuanian Union of Photographers. For a long time, Rimgaudas Maleckas had been living and creating in Kaunas. Currently, he lives and creates in Palanga. The artist has been intensely participating in exhibitions and auctions since 1959. From 2008, by using similar technique and stylistics, from different activitie‘s sphere to the world of arts came the photographer‘s wife, watched her husband‘s creation work for a long time, currently – photographer Dangirutė Maleckienė. The works of these artists are quite various: landscapes, psychological portraits, directing photography, religious plots. In the pieces it is felt the influence of both, graphic arts and photographica. The photographers have published even two artistic books-albums, represented their creation work. In the works of the couple it is felt meaningful shapes whole harmony. The portraits of photographer Rimgaudas Maleckas are especially subtle, the author gives a big meaning to the artistic composition‘s details and unexpected expression of the shape. In all creative periods of the artists dominates solid whole of the works, in the photographs form and composition are especially important: lines, exposition of spots, effects of light, combinations of black and white colors, plane, symmetry and asymmetry, that are one of the most sophisticated artistic expression‘s measures. Currently, the photographers participate in project “Exchange program of Kaunas and foreign artists“, during the project was created film about the creation work of the photographers. The project‘s organizers: Kaunas citie‘s municipality, “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“; the project‘s sponsor – Kaunas citie‘s municipality. The exhibition was till December 4.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From this year, November 19 (Thursday), in National Kaunas Drama Theater‘s cafe will be author (chamber) photographer Romualdas Kairys‘s exhibition “Still lifes“. Photographer Romualdas Kairys has been dreaming to become an artist since his childhood. The author began to photograph since he was 12 years old with camera of tape “Zenit“. The photographer belongs to Kaunas Photo Club. He actively participates in the club‘s artistic life, in mutual exhibitions, organized by the club. He photographs on various topics, however, currently, he pays the most attention on the theme of still lifes.
In the exhibition the photographer presents series of photographs “Still lifes“. This series consists of 20 photographs, each of them tells still another story in the themes of autumnal still lifes. Artistic composition of each photograph consists of different element, often reminding the time of autumn season: pumpkins of autumnal colors, objectives of antique cameras in retro style background, aged photos between autumnal leaves and photo albums. It is interesting that the presenting series of still lifes has a connection not only with photography, but also the allusions to painting strokes of the greenish coloring. The narrative‘s history of every artistic photograph is different, from various details and accents symbolizing autumn, the composition of photos is filled and aesthetically strong.
The author, presenting this exclusive photo series, allows to a viewer to look to the different world of still life, which is enriched with various details and color accents. The exhibition will be till this year, December 8. The exhibition‘s organizers – Kaunas Photo Club and “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
From this year, November 2, in Business center “Vertas“ (address: Gynėjų street 16, Vilnius) will be opened the author painting works exhibition of painter Rūta Levulienė. Painter R. Levulienė actively participates in group exhibitions and organizes author exhibitions. To the author‘s creation work have had an influence teachers such as famous painter Antanas Obcarskas, painter Violeta Juodzevičienė, artist Lukas Kalmogercovas. The names of R. Levulienė paintings smell an intrigue – “Storks learn to fly“, “Impression“, “Mysterious“, “Process“, “Radix of 36“, “Whim“, etc. The nature often inspires the author, accordingly, there are often met abstract landscapes, it is revealed internal feelings world and relation with external world. The paintings stand out esthetician – they are bright, expressive, a lot of attention it is paid to abstraction shape and variety, visual and artistic narrative from geometric broken and unbroken stories. To the author it is important the painting process and uneven geometrical shapes rhythmics, which is composing in the painting‘s space. In this way in the artist‘s pieces the story is expressed through colors and shapes. The shapes and lines play between, keep the rhythm, sound, in some places decorated details complement the artistic plane. In the author‘s pieces it is very important not only symbols, but, also, metaphors language. In the paintings there are aplenty philosophical insights and metaphors, especially it is evident in paintings “Radix of 36“ and “Without a name“, “Whim“, etc. Some expressive paintings of the artist, such as “Whim“ and “Radix of 36“, have a considerable connection with graphic art. The creation work of the artist is versatile. In one group of the paintings dominates solid story, in the other group of the paintings dominates broken story. The artistic narrative is strengthened with brightly red color‘s colorings. In the pieces also dominate blue, greenish, black colors. The paintings of painter Rūta Levulienė stand out from other artists pieces an original artistic story, bright red color‘s rendering and play, masterful abstract painting manner‘s mastery and close connection with graphics. R. Levulienė, by using geometrical shapes story, creates distant and close, familiar and, in kind, unfamiliar world, which, by looking to the paintings, we differently create ourselves. The exhibition‘s organizers – “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“, Business center “Vertas“ and Rūta Levu art gallery. The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
From July 31 till August 31 in Kaunas city museum‘s department, Lithuanian Music History museum of M. and K. Petrauskas (address: K. Petrauskas str 31), was the review of the retrospective exhibition‘s opening of photographers duet Rimgaudas Maleckas and Dangirutė Maleckienė and the films, representing creation work of the artists.
About the artists and the exhibition:
Photographer Rimgaudas Maleckas is one of the most important modernistic photographie’s (photographica’s) initiators in Lithuania. In 1959 he graduated Kaunas’s J. Gruodis Musical school (Directing), and in 1982 he get Journalist‘s specialty in VU. In 1963 he and other artists set up Kaunas‘s Photo Club, also, he had been leading to it as a chairman for a long time. The photographer is a member of Lithuanian Union of Photographers. For a long time, Rimgaudas Maleckas had been living and creating in Kaunas. Currently, he lives and creates in Palanga. The artist has been intensely participating in exhibitions and auctions since 1959. From 2008, by using similar technique and stylistics, from different activitie‘s sphere to the world of arts came the photographer‘s wife, watched her husband‘s creation work for a long time, currently – photographer Dangirutė Maleckienė. The works of these artists are quite various: landscapes, psychological portraits, directing photography, religious plots. In the pieces it is felt the influence of both, graphic arts and photographica. The photographers have published even two artistic books-albums, represented their creation work. In the works of the couple it is felt meaningful shapes whole harmony. The portraits of photographer Rimgaudas Maleckas are especially subtle, the author gives a big meaning to the artistic composition‘s details and unexpected expression of the shape. In all creative periods of the artists dominates solid whole of the works, in the photographs form and composition are especially important: lines, exposition of spots, effects of light, combinations of black and white colors, plane, symmetry and asymmetry, that are one of the most sophisticated artistic expression‘s measures. Currently, the photographers participate in project “Exchange program of Kaunas and foreign artists“, therefore, in the film, presenting their creation work, the representative text is given by English.
The project‘s organizers: Kaunas citie‘s museum, “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“; the project‘s sponsor – Kaunas citie‘s municipality.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Since 2015 June 25 (Thursday) in Vilnius, Business center “Vertas“ (address: Gynėjų str 16, Vilnius) was painter Jovita Glemžaitė-Matuzienė‘s author exhibition of her painting works.
Jovita Glemžaitė-Matuzienė – the middle generation painter. In 1977 she graduated from J. Naujalis Art school, in 1978-1984 she was studying in Vilnius Art institute (current VDA), and after she graduated from it, she get a specialty of painting pedagogue. Currently, the artist lives and creates in Kaunas, works as an art teacher supervisor in A. Martinaitis Art school. Since 1992 she has been a member of Lithuanian artists union. Since 1988 the artist has been intensely participating in group exhibitions and she has been organizing author exhibitions. She has organized exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad – Greece, the USA, Germany, Sweden.
In artist Jovita Glemžaitė-Matuzienė’s chamber exhibition of seven pieces are presented abstract fragments of the pictorial landscapes. Each one of them has not only different creation stories, but, also, different pictorial signs and strokes fragments. In the author‘s presented pictures dominate names such as “On the road“, “Coast“, “Black swan‘s charms“, there are couple landscapes from the cycle of pictures “Stories of Taujėnai manor“. To the creation work of Jovita Glemžaitė-Matuzienė a lot of influence have had nature, being in the envelopment of it, impressions of travels, old photographs, play of light and shadows. In all presented pictures dominate dynamic and expressive picture‘s composition, expressive bright colors strokes – yellow, blue and greenish. In the creation work of J. Glemžaitė-Matuzienė philosophical reflections are especially important, in each piece the artist dives to philosophical considerations and reflects eternity and temporary conception, which opens in the pictures by invoking chosen signs or fragments to the certain theme. In the pictures of J. Glemžaitė-Matuzienė it is very important a connection with graphic arts, it is especially evident in the pieces “On the road“ and “Voyageur“ (from French – “Voyager“). In frequent artist‘s piece it is met road and travel motive, in which, by using “Perpetum mobile“ concept, it is given a meaning the theme of the eternal movement during journeys through time.
The author exhibition of Jovita Glemžaitė-Matuzienė‘s painting works is organized by Business center “Vertas“ and “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 2015 May 29 till July 31 in Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian Music History department of M. and K. Petrauskas (address: K. Petrauskas str 31) was photographer of Kaunas city Petras Vaičiulis‘s exhibition “Pictures of Kaunas“. This exhibition on the topic of Kaunas has not by a chance chosen to organize in one of the spaces of Kaunas citie‘s museum.
Petras Vaičiulis was born in 1955 in Žemaitija, in the village of Mikytai, Skuodas region. He was learning in Šačiai high school and he was studying in Vilnius technical school of the construction. The artist especially participates actively in the public and cultural life. He organizes the author exhibitions in various cities, photographs the moments of the cultural events. He is a member of Kaunas Žemaičiai cultural society, keeps close contacts with Kaunas Latvian club “Dauguva“, he has participated in “Atgaja“ monumental club life, in the activity of Lithuanian and Latvian unity society.
Photographer Petras Vaičiulis is the photographer not of people, not of things, but of the nature. In his pieces a genre of the landscape is often met. The artist is endlessly interested in that what we call the moments of commonness, which we not always notice by walking the different corners of Kaunas city. In the exhibition presented the artist‘s photographs created in 2013-2015. By photographing landscapes, Petras Vaičiulis often notices that, what others do not see: the sunset in Santaka, the early morning in Kaunas lagoon, the moments of various festivals in the centre of Kaunas city, it did not go unnoticed and various places of Kaunas old town. In the artist‘s photographs the relation with the environment, surrounding him, natural details and with captured passers-by is very important. In the artist‘s photographs through some often noticeable details open connections with the graphic art.
Photographer Petras Vaičiulis is active, restless, attentive, searching and having a distinctive creative style. The main creative credo of the photographer is – to find, to record that, what is beautiful, and to show that to others.
Currently, the artist participates in the Ist part of Kaunas‘s and foreign professional artists‘ exchange program. In this project will be presented the creation work of Kaunas‘s artists, too. The project‘s organizers: Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian Music department of M. and K. Petrauskas, “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“; the project‘s sponsor – Kaunas citie‘s municipality.
On 2015 May 6 in Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian Music department of M. and K. Petrauskas (address: K. Petrauskas str 31) was author exhibition of media artist Assoc. Dr. Remigijus Venckus “Amnesia. Empty screens“.
R. Venckus was born in 1981 in Šiauliai district, village of Vijoliai. In 2004 in University of Šiauliai he graduated the specialty of graphic artist, in 2006 he get a master degree of art historian. In 2014 in Vilnius art academy he defended his doctorate of Art criticism on the topic “Jacques Derrida deconstruction application for video art research“. He has organized over twenty author exhibitions in Lithuania and several – abroad. Also, R. Venckus is known as media and art critic. Currently, R. Venckus is a director and an associate professor of Kazimieras Simonavičius Universitie‘s Institute of Creativity Society and Economics, an associate professor of Vytautas Magnus University.
In the exhibition the artist presents modern abstraction of the photography. In the photographs dominate planes of blue color, interconnected with shades of white or lighter blue colors. In the presented collection the author pays a lot of attention to the content. To emergence and creative realization of these pieces the work of John Cage “4’33“ (4 min 33 sec) have had an influence. By choosing the title of screens’ topic to the exhibition, the author seeks to give the certain encoded information to a viewer. An important accent becomes the narrated story – narrative, and, also, how it is presented. “The latest my pieces’ collection, called “Empty screens“, throws off the intention to mark something clear and special. This cycle – is the question about the presence of absence, the certainty of unreality, the plane of non-plane, the space of non-space, the experience of inexperience, the quilt of innocence“, – the artist was telling. The pieces‘ collection of the exhibition – is the play of the artist, during which abstract things are pictured, and in the same time there is nothing pictured, by leaving wide space to the viewer‘s interpretations.
Interesting coincidence: the same month Assoc. Dr. Remigijus Venckus‘s author exhibition “Intersecting lines. Berlin“ was running in LR Embassy in Berlin, Germany. Also, this exhibition of the artist is one of the main media days‘ events, runned this year in VMU, organized by co-operating with Vytautas Magnus University.
More information about the artist‘s creation work You can find in the artist‘s web page www.amnesia.venckus.eu.
The exhibition‘s organizers – Kaunas citie‘s museum and “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. The exhibition‘s sponsor – “Dental care center“. The exhibition‘s partners – “Days of Media art“ and University of Kazimieras Simonavičius.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
In 2015 April 21 in LR embassy in Germany runned author Assoc. Dr. Remigijus Venckus‘s photographic exhibition “Intersecting lines. Berlin“. Remigijus Venckus is not only a photographer but, also, he is a video artist, a creator of media art, therefore, photographic exhibition “Intersecting lines. Berlin“ will be added with his video works.
The artist has been often visiting Berlin, has been interested in art works, exhibited in the citie‘s museums and galleries. This exhibition has been composed from his earlier created photographic series “Places of diaries“ and essay collection “Diary of Berlin“. Mostly to the artist‘s works there is inherent uncolored, minimal shape. Later the photographer began to experiment with colors, and in the center of composition appeared human, probably, the fellow traveler, met during the journey. The artist‘s travel is a long process, during which the exploration of himself and environment, the relation with “other“ space and “other“ time, the continuity of time and space are important.
The message to the media was prepared according to the text of the exhibition‘s curator Gabrielė Kuizinaitė. More information about the artist‘s creation work: www.venckus.eu, www.amnesia.venckus.eu. Organizers: LR Cultural attache in Germany, “Gabrielė‘s Art Gallery“. The project‘s partners: Lithuanian Cultural Institute, University of Kazimieras Simonavičius. The exhibition and the visit of the artists in Berlin are sponsored by LR Cultural Ministry.
From 2015 April 7 till May 5 in Kaunas city museum‘s department, Lithuanian Music museum of M. and K. Petrauskas (address: K. Petrauskas str 31), was running photographer Arūnas Kulikauskas‘s pinhole technique author photographic exhibition “Catching of Photons“. “Everything in the world is simple, until we complicate it“ (Arūnas Kulikauskas).
ARŪNAS KULIKAUSKAS was born in 1959 in Kaunas, Žaliakalnis. He graduated Art School of J. Naujalis, after that – Vilnius Art Institute at that time. After having worked in Lithuania, traveled many places, cities and mountains of Soviet Union, looked around both in Zapoliarni, and in Siberian, actively participated in cultural Lithuanian life and in Movement activity at that time, after Lithuania regained its independence, he went to live in New York. After long wanderings and looking around the world, also, various adventures, after 22 years he with his family came back to live in Lithuania. Arūnas Kulikauskas has organized several author photographic exhibitions, and has participated in many group exhibitions, various events around the world. His works are in various collections of museums, galleries and personal collections. His works and technique are presented in a few books, too. Last 15 years he has been working mostly with “Polaroid“ materials. The pieces in this exhibition were done by his own job made pinhole cameras on “polaroids“, that later were used as negatives – scanned, and then the photographs were being increased till wanted format and printed on traditional archival photographic paper. “The piece of light, called Photon, after seceded from Sun, flew over Space till Earth, lands on the thing and, after hit it, it arrives through my device‘s hole, by filtered of no glass, it leaves the footprint… In this way appear images, that You can see in this exhibition. By working in this way I understood that I work in the open space. No kidding“, – about the exclusive creative technique Arūnas Kulikauskas was talking.
About Arūnas Kulikauskas‘s author photographic exhibition “Catching of Photons“ You can read in the media: http://www.bernardinai.lt/straipsnis/2015-04-09-atidaryta-aruno-kulikausko-personaline-fotografiju-paroda-fotonu-gaudymas/129525#.
On 2015 February 4 in National Kaunas Drama Theater cafe was opened photographer Giedrius Liagas‘s chamber photographs‘ exhibition.
Giedrius Liagas lives and creates in Kaunas. In 1984-1988 he was attending photographic studio of Arūnas Kulikauskas, in 1988-1989 he was studying in Vilnius photographic school. He has been a member of Lithuanian Union of Art Photographers since 1989. Also, he was teaching Photography in Vilnius Art Academy, in Kaunas faculty, and Vytautas Magnus University. The artist has organized many author exhibitions in Poland, Latvian Photography Museum, Riga, England, Germany. There are works of G. Liagas in Lithuanian Photographers Union, Lithuanian Art Museum, Lithuanian Art Museum in Chicago, collections of Metropolitan Museum, also – in Tokyo. The main works‘ cycles of the author: “Experiment“ (1989), “The residents of Muitinė street“ (1990), “Album“ (1995), “Search of the mate“ (2005), “This side of the other side“ (2006) etc.
In this exhibition G. Liagas presented two small photographs‘ series: “This side of the other side“ and “The first year after the end of the world“. In photographs‘ series “This side of the other side“ there is expressed subtle relation with nature, in created marine abstraction show up the contours of ships. It could look that this frequent theme in art and photography should be presented traditionally, however, the author pictiorally “floats“ the image by creating symbolic picture full of color nuances. Colorfully nuanced emotion is associative in the mentioned cycle, transitive from natural photographic image to symbolized image of the world. In the cycle “The first year after the End of the World“ also the specifics (figure, its part) becomes the part of photographic composition, not the specifics, but the shape becomes basis of frequent photograph.
Photographer Giedrius Liagas belongs to the direction of Postmodernism. In the creation work of the artist shape and content are important.
You can see the exhibition of G. Liagas before the performances.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 2015 February 8 in the conference hall of Kaunas’s Church of the Resurrection of Christ during event “Dialogue, Word and Color“, after actress, director Birutė Mar’s program, was artist Egidija Brinkytė’s author exhibition “Music of Angels“ opening.
Painter Egidija Brinkytė was born, raised and studied in the Coastal (Šilalė‘s district). In 2001-2004 in Kaunas college she graduated from J. Vienožinskis arts study center, the specialty of easel painting artworks restoration and conservation. In 2004-2006 in Šiauliai university, faculty of Arts, she graduated from the specialty of art and design, also, she acquired art pedagogical qualification. In 2015 in Šiauliai university she get Master‘s degree in painting.
About her interest in religious themes the author said: “The topic of Angels left to me during plein-air “Anykščiai – city of Angels“, which was organized by museum of Angels last year. In my pictures I portray the angels as creatures, having a personality, as ghosts, and as mystical creatures. Each of us differently imagine, dream or even see the angels. In this exhibition You can see what angels I see, how by colors and lines the angels create their music and dance to You. I think, everyone will find familiar angel to them in this exhibition“.
Information of the organizers
Photographer Vilija Kailiūtė came to Photography from Applied sciences. Her knowledge with Photography art began a good decade ago. In 1993 in Lithuanian Photographers Union she attended specialized photography courses. She has been participating in group photography exhibitions, that were organized by LFS, also – in group photography exhibitions in Chicago, USA, that were organized by Emigration photographer Algimantas Kezys. The artist has been interested in the citie‘s themes, which is expressed through photographic abstractions. According to the author, the city is that place, where thoughts and emotions interlace, it is eternal motion and dynamics, when the spirit of the city takes a dictation of motional slips and trajectories. Human as if becomes its hostage, however, the city liberates him, too. “Thus these constructions involved me and became the abstract pictures, reflecting the rhythm of the city“, – the artist was telling. Since 2014 the artist has been actively participating in mutual artists exhibitions and organizing personal exhibitions. She has already organized the exhibition in Kaunas citie‘s Municipalitie‘s public library of Kudirka, in National Kaunas Drama Theater cafe. Her photographs have clear artistic composition, the pieces stand out colorful variety, from dark to bright colors, contrasts and parallels. The composition‘s basis of some works become geometrical shape or figure. The artist‘s urbanistic abstract photography offers somewhat mystical, covered in secrecy urban image, inviting the viewer to the journey around the world of rational stabilitie‘s and emotional subjectivitie‘s city.
Presented works of the photographer are from photographs‘ series “Breath of the City“. The performative technique: glued on carton. Format: 80 x 40 cm. The artist‘s creation work is presented by Gabrielegallery.
From 2014 November 14 till December 31 in National Kaunas Drama Theater cafe was running artist O. Judakova‘s chamber graphics and photography works exhibition.
Oksana Judakova was born in 1972 in Altai. She grew up in Lithuania. In Tytuvėnai she graduated from the high school, studied applied graphics in Kaunas college, J. Vienožinskis art faculty, and in VDA, Kaunas art institute, where she get arts bachelor‘s degree. In 2003-2012 the artist was living in New York. A few years ago her family and she came back to live to Lithuania. Currently the graphic artist is a member of Lithuanian Union of Artists, lives and creates in Vepriai, Ukmergė‘s district. Although, Oksana Judakova creates graphic arts, also, in the latest years she exhibits photo exhibitions too.
In the exhibition Oksana Judakova presents the collection of photographs about Altai land “Mountains of Altai“. In the photographs fixated beauty of the mountains, their magnificence and mystery. Every photograph of the artist is unique by its narrative authenticity. About this cycle of photographs Oksana tells: “Altai is my homeland. However, the first time I saw it by my eyes was only being over thirty years old. Enviable feeling! To see the country, in which I was born and raised, and which I could only imagine from V. Almanis’s books and my bright strong dreams. It’s such happiness to feel that sometimes breathtaking reality matches the most beautiful and bold visions and dreams. As You might know, Altai is a big land. But Altai Republic is little. However, there is the beauty of Altai mountains in it. There are saint mountain Belucha, turquoise Katunė, lush alpine fields, half-deserts. The photographs of this exhibition are from my first and second travels to home Altai. Will I ever visit this wonderful land – I do not know“. In the exhibition, also, there are exhibited requiring great nicety, small format graphic works. By creating graphic pieces the artist uses different techniques. In this exhibition presented works have been made by linen carving technique. Small format graphic works are visually mesmerizing by their shape and subtle by their details and symbolism. The exhibition’s pieces do not create solid cycle of works. The creation work of the artist is presented by “Gabrielė’s Art Gallery“.
From 2014 October 15 till the end of November in Kaunas city Municipalitie‘s administrative rooms (address: Laisvė alley 94 A) was photographer Edmundas Kolevaitis‘s author exhibition “Pangea“. In the event participated art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė and well-known photographer Aleksandras Macijauskas.
Photographer Edmundas Kolevaitis was born in 1952 September 16 in Duobiškiai, district of Šakiai. In 1975 he graduated Kaunas Polytechnic institute. He has been an active member of Lithuanian Photographers Union since 2002. In 2005 the artist has been granted the status of Art Creator. According to the artist, the face of human is inexhaustible, it is constantly changing unique of this earth. However, our faces are anthropologically different, they are open, in them records everything what is inherent to the human. By looking to the portrayed face, we recognize that, what connects us, we can find “Pangea“. In context of Lithuanian photography history the artist‘s works stand out both, and themes, and specific stylistics. Though, the artist‘s creative process often runs not in Lithuania but in far countries – India, Tanzania or even in Columbia – the main his pictorial symbol in the photographs stays the portrayed person. The artist has been loyal to the stylistics of his creation work for more than a decade. In these portraits the important accents remain not only exotic beauty of the portrayed person but, also, the author empathizes modes, emotions of the depicted hero. Being already a frequent guest in the far countries, the author sees the different Eastern world, he watches the distinctive look and from unconventional point of observation: he not only fixates fragmentally details of certain event or portrayed person, however, he has perfectly analyzed country culture‘s traditions and manner, that enliven the photograph‘s content.
In the exhibition presented series of photographs there are important the artistic composition, the connection of the portrayed person with exotic environment, the experienced moments during certain captured event. These photographs of the artist have not only artistic but, also, historical enduring value.
The exhibition’s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 2014 October 7 till November 10 in Kaunas city museum’s department, Lithuanian music museum of M. and K. Petrauskas (address: Petrauskas str 31), was running photographer Feliksas Kerpauskas’s author works exhibition.
F. Kerpauskas was born in 1933 in Plungė district. He was studying in Rietavas High School, also, in Vilnius Pedagogical Institute‘s Lithuanian language and Literature faculty, in Vilnius Tallat-Kelpša Higher Music School. He was working in Skuodas High School, also, for 30 years he had been working in Kaunas J. Dobkevičius High School as Music teacher. Photographer F. Kerpauskas began to take pictures in 1954, became actively involved to the activity of Kaunas Photo Club. In 1987 he has been signed in Lithuanian Union of Photographers, he has been given the status of Art Creator. F. Kerpauskas has organized many personal exhibitions in Lithuania, mostly – in Kaunas. Landscapes are the closest to the photographer, though, he fixates Kaunas cultural life, creates portraits of his friends, too. F. Kerpauskas told, that he photographs because he wants to show to others the beauty around us. The most important to him – joy of sharing. In the artist‘s creation work dominate themes of stones and tree‘s wounds. He finds the stone‘s flamboyance, and in its details he discovers portraits of people or animals, by photographing the stone he feels its radiant energy. Trees are his friends. The photographer thinks: “Trees are my friends. Trees begin their fight with the main enemies – people. Trees make to people their main life source – oxygen, and people cut down the trees by preparing a place for cars parking. After all, cars burn out oxygen and throw away even to outer space. The trees can cure their wounds, however, not always they succeed. The trees stay wounded. From here follows other themes of photography – the wounds of trees“.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 2014 September 15 till November 15 in National Kaunas Drama Theater cafe was running in the USA living photographer Algimantas Kezys‘s chamber photographs exhibition “City landscapes“.
Algimantas Kezys is well-known photographer, art critic, publisher, exhibitions organizer in Lithuania and emigrants. In the exhibition there are presented the artist‘s works, created in 1968-1999. The exhibition concludes of two parts – portraits and fragments of architecture of the cities. The author presents city landscapes of travels around Poland, Mexico, France, Canada, Brazil, Belgium. It is important to him not to capture places and people of the visited country as documents, but to transform the impression, experienced during the travel, by listening attentively to the detail, by revealing the character of building, street or human. The object of A. Kezys‘s works, created during various periods, becomes not just one or the other countrie‘s historical architectonic building, but, also, fragments of the architecture‘s details, unexpected links and parallels, by passing from black and white photographic image to colorful variations of photo-graphics. Also, the distinctive attribute of “City landscapes“ becomes the portrait‘s genre, the author is interested in unexpected expression or look of the human‘s face, mood, there are bright ethnic characteristics in the portraits. In the exhibition presented works are from Vytautas Magnus Universitie‘s Lithuanian Emigrants Institute‘s archives collections.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
On 2014 August 4 in Kaunas city municipality’s public library of Vincas Kudirka (address: Laisvė alley 57) was opened photographer Vilija Kailiūtė’s and painter Antanas Andziulis’s abstractions exhibition “Rhythmics“.
Photographer Vilija Kailiūtė came to Photography from Applied sciences. Her knowledge with Photography art began a good decade ago. In 1993 in Lithuanian Photographers Union she attended specialized photography courses. She has been participating in group photography exhibitions, that were organized by LFS, also – in group photography exhibitions in Chicago, USA, that were organized by Emigration photographer Algimantas Kezys. The artist has been interested in the citie‘s themes, which is expressed through photographic abstractions. According to the author, the city is that place, where thoughts and emotions interlace, it is eternal motion and dynamics, when the spirit of the city takes a dictation of motional slips and trajectories. Human as if becomes its hostage, however, the city liberates him, too. “Thus these constructions involved me and became the abstract pictures, reflecting the rhythm of the city“, – the artist was telling. Her photographs have clear artistic composition, the pieces stand out colorful variety, from dark to bright colors, contrasts and parallels. The composition‘s basis of some works become geometrical shape or figure.
Painter Antanas Andziulis was born and raised in Kaunas. He was learning painting in Art School of Juozas Naujalis, later he had been studying painting in Vilnius Art Institute, after that – he was checking and improving his craftsmanship in “various additional studies and life‘s seminars“, according to the author. The artist often organizes author exhibitions, participates in group exhibitions. The painting stylistics of A. Andziulis has been relied on the abstraction, the painter has been loyal to it many years, however, he surprises fans of his art by still new ideas and new works.
The conception of the artist‘s presented works in this exhibition is connected with emotional experience of his personal life: the fifth summer in a row in the farmstead before falling to sleep he sees the same pattern, woven by antecedents, blinking in the eyes by its color and rhythmics. This image has become the main inspiration of the exhibition‘s works. The artist mentions dates, by looking for coincidences, and comments on the emergence‘s motives of his new cycle of works: “This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Also, this year is the 90th birthday of my mother – textile worker. 30 years ago I graduated VDI Painting study“. In the painting of Antanas Andziulis there are important geometrical forms of bright colorings, emotional and rhythmical rendition of the content through the abstraction. In his works dominate the relation of different abstract shapes, the visual dialogue of bright colorings. In this exhibition we will see the harmony of abstract forms photography and painting. The works of both artists supplement each other by the content and the shape, however, it suggests significant, unexpected dialogue, as well.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
In the creation work of R. Puišys there is especially important the topic of travels and expeditions to mountains. In the photographs of cycle “Highlands lowlands“ the author concentrates on the element of nature, magnificence of the mountains and the immortalization of the harmony with nature. Also, the author fixates, as reportages, the daily routine of alpinists, travellers, efforts of spiritual endurance during climbing to mountains, permanent drama of the survival and the confrontation with dangers. Both these themes of the series of photographs supplements each other, in them an attention to the landscape of mountains emerges, that is often symbolical, also, to the people. The photographs of R. Puišys marks a desire to immortalize the greatness of the mountains and the fights of alpinists, giving a meaning of a necessity to reach the goal.
Series “Highlands lowlands“ was published in 2012 by the same name as in the photo album of R. Puišys. The second part of this album concludes of the images of St. Petersburg. The author does not have the aim to fixate the places of the historical city, as documentary. His attention is focused on the cemetery of Lutherans, the immortalization of separate monuments. Also, he photographs a daily routine of the citizens, undressed, advertising unseen side of the city. Each photograph of R. Puišys‘s presented cycle is unique by its narration about the mountains, their magnificence, beauty and mystery, there are many various symbols and metaphors in the photographs. With artistic hypnotism created images involve the viewer to different, unexperienced world, alluring by its exotica and uniqueness.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 2014 June 5 till July 31 in Kaunas city museum‘s Lithuanian Music department of M. and K. Petrauskas (address: K. Petrauskas str 31) was photographer Gintautas Skuodas‘s author photo exhibition “Pictorial vision“.
Gintautas Skuodas took an interest in photography more than ten years ago. Currently, he works in advertising photography area, also, he creates artistic photography. The photographer remembers, that the first camera was CMENA 3 M. Still attending drawing lessons at a painter E. Survila, he took over a technique of drawing objects by the planes, at that time, he learnt to combine colors, “to see“ the fall of the light on objects. The author successfully applied painting lessons in the photography too. The city has become the object of mostly modern photography. “The city – its architecture, a sketch of streets and roofs – geography, history and commonness – are boundless to photography. However, it is the most intriguing object. Maybe, accordingly, over the last twenty years all great Lithuanian cities have attained photographic interpretations, mostly itemized by literary texts. The city, where you live, becomes boringly familiar – here you already know by rote every brick, pole, every sky between houses. Among casual passers-by, you don‘t notice architectural memorials of the towns, the singularity, for which strangers come“. (A. Narušytė, “Lithuanian photography 1990-2010“, Citie’s 91, 92).
The exhibition’s exposition consists of different format photographs, printed on the canvas, causing many allusions with painting. The author fixates well-known objects of Kaunas and Vilnius cities’ architecture (Vytautas’s Church, City Hall, Sobor, House of Thunder, funicular, Ona’s Church and other corners and streets of Vilnius Old Town). In panoramic landscapes of Kaunas the Park of Santaka is fixated in different seasons, therefore, the next colorful natural background develops still another perspective, changing, creates contrast. In the photography of G. Skuodas the color plays a big role. From the first sight, it might want to compare his works with colorful postcard, however, it is only the primary impression, which clears away quite quickly. Impressionistic play of colors, subtle colorful nuances, changing of light, dark and shadows give mystical mystery to the photographs. In the fog, in the mist or in the evening twilight drown, a bit faded shape of the building abstracts in the photograph, loses real contours. The photographic intrigue, created by G. Skuodas, an unexpected angle allure the viewer to still unknown world. The author‘s focused or panoramic sight to familiar, well-known spaces of Kaunas and Vilnius cities gives especially individual cities images, in which there is important not only the capturing of historical spaces, but, also, the painting line, colorful nuance, leading to, it could seem, in commonness bored urban landscape‘s symbolism.
The exhibition‘s curator – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Regina Šulskytė is a member of Lithuanian Photographers Union. She has organized many author exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, earnt international awards, Šiauliai citie‘s cultural and artistic premiums (2005, 2009) for creative achievements. She has been a curator of more than 300 photo exhibitions, a compiler of photographie‘s publications. R. Šulskytė works as a professor of Photography in Šiauliai University Arts Facultie‘s Art department. The main cycles of photographs: “Interpretations“ (1996-2003), “Meetings“ (2005), “My clothes“ (1997-2004), “In the bedroom“ (1997-2004), “Sisters“ (2006-2007), “Austria“ (2007), “My time“ (2011-2013). The author presents her series of works “My time“: “My time is that time, in which I am now and here, when I can breathe, see, feel, experience, empathize, and then – to forget everything and to remember again… Sometimes my time completely doesn‘t match with the world‘s time. Partly, for this reason, I connect several photographs, by creating other space of memories and my time of experiences. What can You see in that other space? Maybe – rooms, where I slept at least once, yard, where I know every plant, forest track, where I was running in the childhood, images through the room‘s window or the landscape with a church in the distance – that is my father‘s homeland. In that space happen weird things, though, out of the sight, it seems they‘re quite convincing. Without knowing, that in the photograph I picture mother-girl, and I am a grown-up, then it doesn‘t happen anything weird in here. I‘ve reached that my created photographic images in their own way would become the moving sight‘s (or the moving camera‘s) view territory, and in this way I was trying to destroy the stopped moment‘s stagnation“.
In Regina Šulskytė’s photographs cycle “My time“ there is important to feel the pictorial time’s moving, the impalpability of past and present limits. In the photographs the artist fixates herself, her closest people – mother, father and other members of the family, among them, unexpectedly interrupt people from the past. The artist’s works are interesting by the visual language, they’re consistent by the content and they’re open to the viewer’s sight.
The exhibition’s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
Former residents of Kaunas, currently, live and create in Palanga, and organize the exhibition in Kaunas after a long break. Displayed works in the exhibition have been created in 2011-2013.
Rimgaudas Maleckas is one of the most important modernistic photographie’s (photographica’s) initiators in Lithuania, often called by his colleagues the father of Photographica. Later on, interested in photography and intensely began to create the artist’s wife Dangirutė Maleckienė creates the same stylistics, by not moving away from the abstract photographica’s frames. The first works of Dangirutė Maleckienė have been published in 2007 “Nemunas“ weekly. The author has created more photographica works by working with her husband in accordance with special orders, by illustrating such books as Kristijonas Donelaitis’s “Years“, Kazys Požėra’s “Bucket of cutted nettles“, “Anthology of Georgian poetry“.
According to A. Vaitkevičius, R. Maleckas was one of Lithuanian creators, who gave a start to modern XX century second half’s artistic photography. By looking to R. Maleckas’s creation work in form and esthetic attitude, it can be picked out two main groups of works: to some pieces there are inherent form experiments, others – more stylized, subjective. In the exhibition presented works of Dangirutė and Rimgaudas Maleckas are very various: from psychological women portraits to abstract forms motives. Their photographs have clear artistic composition, shape harmony, esthetics of black and white broken lines. Sometimes the photographers melt their object in shadow, dark. It is especially bright in the abstract photographs, that have mysticism, mystery. As the authors tell, to their creation work have had many influence at that time foreign (P. Mondrian, P. Klee, P. Picasso, J. Pollock and E. A. Zukerman) and Lithuanian abstract art representatives and other artists works.
From 2014 January 17 till April 1 in Kaunas clinics, Endocrinology department, was photographer Albertas Švenčionis‘s author photographs exhibition from series “Lithuanian mounds“. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with gallery “Golden section“.
A. Švenčionis was born in 1955 October 14 in Kaunas. He graduated Kaunas Polytechnic institute. Since 1983 he has been a member of Lithuanian Photographers Union. The author has created series of photographs: “Juventus“ (1982-1984), “War veterans“ (1983-1984), “Hike of beggars“, “Deported people“ (1988-1992), “National festivals“ (1992-1994), “Jazz“ (1986-1994), “At the limit“ (1992), “Experiments“ (1997). For the creative activity the artist has earnt important international awards: in 1999 – International artistic photography federation‘s (FIAP) photographer artist (AFIAP) honorary name, Grand Prix, silver, bronze medals and more than twenty other awards.
Recently, A. Švenčionis presented to his creation work‘s fans a different cycle of photographs “Lithuanian mounds“. He began to create this cycle from 2005. The exhibitions on this topic have already been exhibited in Kaunas, Vilnius, Birštonas, Prienai, Marijampolė. The landscape – is one of the most popular genres in Lithuanian photography. The theme of mounds, chosen by A. Švenčionis, actualizes not only the landscape itself: the nature‘s motive in his photography connects with hystorical context, capture of castle or mound wakes up hystorical memory, and the photographs themselves, according to the author, have been created by “dictating intuition, inside voice“. This subtle concord gives uniqueness to the photographer‘s works.
The exhibition‘s curator – Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 2014 January 14 till March in Kaunas clinics, Endocrinology department, was photographer Raimondas Puišys‘s author photo exhibition “Highlands lowlands“. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with gallery “Golden section“.
The personality of Raimondas Puišys is difficult to present briefly. He is a traveller, a member of Lithuanian Photographers Union, a member of Russian Geography Society. R. Puišys was born in 1963, in Jurbarkas, grew in Alytus, graduated from contemporary Lithuanian Agricultural university. The artist began to photograph during traveling. R. Puišys – a laureate of the contest “Nature – our home“, a prizewinner of Lithuanian and Russian photography contests, he has earnt awards for the photographs, exposed in the exhibitions in St. Petersburg and Tokyo. Love to nature and to people, the aim to save a memento of the vanishing memorials for the future motivate the photographer to fixate the natural change, human modes, his environment. In the photographs the author through the personal emotionally enriched relationship presents various aspects of our spiritual and social life, accents the importance of the cultural heritage. In the creative work of R. Puišys especially significant is the theme of the travels and expeditions to mountains. In the photographs of cycle “Highlands lowlands“ the author concentrates on the element of nature, magnificence of the mountains and the immortalization of the harmony with nature. Also, the author fixates, as reportages, the daily routine of alpinists, travellers, efforts of spiritual endurance during climbing to mountains, permanent drama of the survival and the confrontation with dangers. Both these themes of the series of photographs supplements each other, in them an attention to the landscape of mountains emerges, that is often symbolical, also, to the people.
Series “Highlands lowlands“ was published in 2012 by the same name as in the photo album of R. Puišys. The second part of this album concludes of the images of St. Petersburg. The author does not have the aim to fixate the places of the historical city, as documentary. His attention is focused on the cemetery of Lutherans, the immortalization of separate monuments. Also, he photographs a daily routine of the citizens, undressed, advertising unseen side of the city. Every photograph of the cycle, presented by R. Puišys, is unique by its story about the mountains, their magnificence, beauty and mystery, there are many various symbols and metaphors in the photographs. With artistic hypnotism created images involve the viewer to different, unexperienced world, alluring by its exotica and uniqueness.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 2013 July 16 till September 20 in Kaunas clinics (address: Eiveniai str 2), Radiology clinic‘s Nuclear Medicine department, has been presented photographer from Kaunas Feliksas Kerpauskas‘s exhibition of photographs. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with gallery “Golden section“. In the exhibition have been presented works from photographs series “World of Stones“, “Wounds of Trees“ and “Abstractions“.
In 1955 Feliksas Kerpauskas graduated Lithuanian and Literature studies in Vilnius Pedagogical institute. After the studies he had been working as Lithuanian language teacher in Skuodas High School. The new stage of his life to F. Kerpauskas began after he had arrived to Kaunas, when in the 17th High School he began to work as Music teacher. The artist actively get involved to Kaunas Photo Club activity, and in 1987 he was welcomed to Lithuanian Photographers Union. Since that time the creation work of F. Kerpauskas has developed, the author began to participate in group and thematic exhibitions, organized author exhibitions in Kaunas and other Lithuanian cities. The photographs of F. Kerpauskas reveal the author‘s philosophical attitude to nature, photographed object. The last six years the artist has been taking pictures of stones, and he says, that they are very beautiful. “Before I have started shooting stones, I was interested in what were they talking about. I paid attention to that stones interestingly overgrow lichens, moss, and it seems that they like burst into bloom. My first created series has been called “Bloomy stones“. Stone has its colors, face, texture, therefore, it induces many allusions with human“, – F. Kerpauskas was telling.
Another theme which attracts the photographer – trees. “For me it‘s interesting how trees are able to recover their wounds. If the truncated tree‘s branch isn‘t very big, the tree recover this wound by covering it with new peel in a certain time. The tree is alive, that‘s why I feel sorry when I see how trees are trimmed off every spring time in Laisvė avenue. The tree knows environment, feels us, only we don‘t understand their language. Earlier ancient Lithuanians idolized the tree. Oak was a saint tree. The tree not only grows fruit but it also cures people with its blossom“, – just like that the author desribes series of photographs “Wounds of Trees“.
The photographs, displayed in the exhibition, have been printed on the canvas. This technology gives picturesqueness for the pieces, graphic impression, transfers photographic image to other art kind dimension.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 2013 June 18 till August 27 in gallery “Golden section“ was photography classic, living in Klaipėda, Vaclovas Straukas‘s personal exhibition “Dunes“.
Vaclovas Straukas is called in Lithuanian photography as the representative of Lyrical Realism. The themes for this creative personality have been dictated by the life itself. Each of the author‘s created photographs cycles is tied up with one or another stage of his life. After he found the self-expression in photography, V. Straukas rethinks his life experiences: the childhood on the lake shore (“Motives of the place near lagoon“, “Dunes“), the youth, when the life path turned towards Klaipėda (“Young Klaipėda“), the boyhood and labor years in school (“The last ring“). Sensitive nature, attention and love to the homeland and its people have formed lyrical worldview, which, over time, settled in author photo-papers. In this way accumulated small series of photographs, that, eventually, were combined to several years or even several decades of developing themes‘ photographic cycles. As in the beginning of the creation work, where captured objects or subjects have been lined up by harmonious couples, and the left space has been organized around them, like gravity center (even that rare times, when that center – Sun – eliminated from the shot), the space of the photograph has been always filled till the shot‘s limits. Differently than A. Zavadskis, V. Straukas doesn‘t form geometrical sandy ornaments, doesn‘t search, like J. Kalvelis and glowing matters, disseminated mystical light from the photograph‘s inside. Everything here is much more simple. The open source of the light (whether it disperses from the shot‘s center, or from out) forms more or less realistic picture of Neringa dunes. By using quite often the wide angle objective, the author synthezises spaces, by not going deep into too much to element‘s formed component of hills – sandy granule – but always picturing the dune as the sandy formation. In mists or snow drowned landscape, later, in wider analysis will be opened in “Dunes“ cycle, creates inherent localitie‘s atmosphere with emerging signs of time or place – old boats, drying nets, frozen waters. And only in rare photograph it is observed confrontation with Sun, that will become the motive of the main landscapes of V. Straukas in the future. The human – is inherent part of the environment, maintained both, physical and spiritual connection with it. The youth is the same innocent and rustic, shot by naive faith and longing, just like the childhood. Photographic cycles of V. Straukas are like literary narrations, where the life is as much as the author himself wants to show. It seems, that the photographer didn‘t want to break away completely from the verbal creation work, more precisely, he used its structure for the new resolution, just the word has been changed by the image. And the theme remains the same – undenied love for life.
The text is by art critic Danguolė Ruškienė, the exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė.
From 2013 May 28 till the end of July in St Jadvyga mountain hospital, in Berlin, runned famous photographer Vidmantas Ilčiukas‘s author exhibition “Photographs“. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with gallery “Golden section“.
Vidmantas Ilčiukas was born in 1957 in Vilnius. In 1981 he graduated Painting studies in Vilnius Art institute. Since 1979 he has been participating in painting and photography exhibitions. He is a member of Lithuanian Artists Union and Lithuanian Photographers Union. In 2004 and 2008 he has earnt Art Creators individual stipends by LR Cultural ministry. In 2003 for the photographs the author has earnt International Henkel Award, dedicated to Middle and East European artists.
This spring the creation work of photographer Vidmantas Ilčiukas has already been presented in Berlin the second time. In new exhibition “Photographs“ the artist presents two cycles of photographs: “Forest“ and “City“.
The artist began to create series of photographs “City“ in 2003 and he has been continuing it till now. The city of Vilnius is favorite theme of Lithuanian photographers. Every artist reveals it differently: through architectonic details of buildings, landscape, history of the city and everyday life. Meanwhile, Vidmantas Ilčiukas looks at the city through philosophical prism. In this consistent photo-narration signs and images, light and dark, play of colors and shadows connect and separate. In photographic compositions – trees, showing up in dark background, achitectonic objects, that are sometimes highlighted, sometimes repressed by the reflections of blue color in the streets. In the photographs V. Ilčiukas fixates fragments of the citie‘s reality, like the modes of his own inside experiences. This photo series, according to Vidmantas, has allusions to Franz Kafka‘s story “Reformatory in work colony“. Blurry contours, graffiti, melting reflections of dark colors and forms create a bit phantasmagoric image of the modern city.
A bit different is Vidmantas Ilčiukas‘s series “Forest“. By saving ourselves from endless problems of the civilization, we traditionally turn around to nature. She‘s like the possible way out to us. The harmony of the forest should give the perspective of future. However, depending on the observer‘s experience, these precise images of nature can wake up different empathies. In silent statics of the forest we also feel something frightening, worrisome.
The creation work of Vidmantas Ilčiukas and the artistic resolution of his photographs have especially wide range, it is conceptual, often based on relativism, dualism, multi-directional movement, the opposite ideas. The author analyzes various sociocultural, spacetime and self-image aspects. According to the author, in the photographs confronts that, what is abstract and concrete, general and personal, natural and random, meaningful and meaningless, that, what is clear and what is more difficult to explain.
The exhibition‘s curator – art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
The project‘s partners: International Cultural programs center. The exhibition and the visit of the artists in Berlin is sponsored by LR Cultural ministry.
In 2013 on 15th of March, at public institution Kaunas Clinical Hospital “Day Surgery Center“(address: Josvainių g. 2) was opened photographer Algirdas Musneckis‘s exhibition “Landscapes of Nida“. The organisers of this exhibition was surgeon Edmundas Žurauskas, photographer Algirdas Musneckis and art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė. The tutor of this exhibition was director of this hospital Gediminas Abeciūnas.
Photographer Algirdas Musneckis is from Šiauliai. He has been photographing and has been interesting in Photoart since 1956. From 1971 years he has been a member of Lithuanian Unior of Photographers. From 1972 years till now he has been actively participating in exhibitions, also, he has been photographing a lot of nature and landscapes in Nida.
In this not big exhibition were represented about 15 photoworks, that are not big format, and they were fixed as wonderfull landscape from Nida. From 1973 years with breaks he has been actively going as a photographer, not as a holidaymaker in Nida, also, he has been as an active photographer and a participant of seminars. In this exhibition the author has fixed for us good connection and unique landscape of Nida, beautiful dunes, ships in the heaps, vegetation and everything that gives viability for this beautiful corner of the nature. It is obvious, when the photographer has created this photography series, it have been changed not only photography technological posibillity but Nida landscape too.
“50 years ago the flow of holidaymakers to Nida at summer was much smaller. Late in the evening You couldn‘t go near the sea, because you could meet angry frontier-guards. On Parnidis dune You could feel the breath of drifted sand. It were no site of view, no Sun clock. Every year, when You come to Nida, You see it‘s different. Only the sea and the lagoon don‘t change, and, here, sand dunes change, overgrow by grass and bushes, but here is beautiful, by the Sun shining, by the rain falling. The forest of Nida is amazing. You are walking around the forest – the world of trees – and You are still looking for the answers to the questions of Life“.
The photographic experience of the artist, trained intuition and the catch of improved view let to the author to create memorable cycle of photographs “Landscapes of Nida“. Every viewer, by looking to these photographs, experiences again and feels still different emotional connection with sea, lagoon, Nida‘s dunes. The photographs of A. Musneckis refresh our personal relation with magical and unique corner of nature.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
From 21st of February 2013 till 2nd of April at National Kaunas Drama theater café was opened Vytautas Pletkus exhibition “The Bridges”. The exhibition was organised in collaboration with gallery “Golden cut”.
Vytautas Pletkus was born in 1955 in Vilnius. In 1980 he finished Engineering Construction institute. From 2013 he is a member of Lithuanian photographers union.
Important photographer’s series are: “The castle village people” (1979-1983), “Invasion” (2002-2004), “Nightly Kaunas” (2002-2008), “The bridges of Kaunas”(2003- 2008), “The fragments of Kaunas forts”(2004-2006), “Coming out” (2006), “Teritories” (2006), “Non perspectives projects”(2008). In 2011 he has won the premium from Lithuania artist creation association, in the State Lithuanian culture ministry scholarship.
The author said that the bridges theme is not by chance. The bridge is urbanistical intervention into city environment. In the often photography the river bridges and shore connection are fused into solid mystical spread, isolated into shadow and color game play. The bridges form, architectural, geometrical and in general accent on the photographic view is connected in two photography traditions: “On the one hand, to his pieces are inherent rational regular bridges architectural forms compositions, reminding analytical modern art searches, by picturing space and three-dimensional objects in the plane of painting canvas or photographic sheet. On the other hand, the photographer finds these strict compositions as from XIX century sailed pictorial photographic mists, where disperse coloring photographs, evening or at daybreak, sun rays“ (Tomas Pabedinskas). In the photographs of V. Pletkus especially important is esthetics, it stands out precise quality of technical performance. In the photographs of cycle “Bridges“ the author purifies abstract forms of the bridges, shades in mists sinking shore.
Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė