On Ash trees, thorns, time and death 2015-07-10
Visual art, which has long stopped representing (only) the area of mimesis, often appears as a framework or structure that does not picture anything; as a code, a citation, a link, a comment or something that is in between, (founding) claiming its own reality. Of course, artistic creation is only a small part of a machinery that manufactures alternative realities and a painting exhibition "The relevance of Reality" held in Lithuanian Artists' Association gallery Meno Parkas in Kaunas only partly reflects their diversity.
Glass art experiences in Estonia 2015-07-09
Naturally, various travels and new experiences and impressions coincide with the summer time. In July I was able to get thoroughly acquainted with the Estonian glass artists’ work and their exhibition activities. I can claim that this time, the most interesting discoveries of this field did not happen in Tallinn, at the Estonian Academy of Arts (which is famous, since the interwar period, with its strong artistic glass education) but in the province - towns of Olustvere and Järvakandi in the central part of Estonia.
Orientalism in painting - Turkish fashion conquers Europe (part 1) 2015-05-26
Term orientalism in literature describes the culture common to the Middle and Near East and South Asia, which Europe tries to mimic. In the series of articles Marius Vyšniauskas presents the influence of orientalism to the art of Western and Lithuanian art.
Arvydas Žalpys, "I am all for contemporary expositions" 2015-05-25
Works presented in the exhibition "Stories. The Man. (Biography Never Written)", ranging from the white empty framed sheets of paper to video documentations where creating a story that included the past and current events as well as the personal future plans. I had a conversation with Arvydas Žalpys about this exhibition, his work, influences, differences between contemporary and current art and experimentation in our current culture.
Search for the sign in the denuded Jorės. Egidijus Darulis painting 2015-04-20
E. Darulis painting is dominated by a consistent search for details. It is not specification - structural models and their interactions are examined and visually conveyed. His works tell a story of how the primitive forms become complex organisms.