Pranas Gailius: from bohemian life to discipline 2016-07-19
Painter, sculptor and graphic artist Pranas Gailius, who had left Lithuania during the World War II, spend the rest of his life in France. After graduating from art studies at the end of sixties and early seventies P. Gailius had become a part of Parisian painters’ lively life that was undergoing a boom for almost half a century.
A glance at the exhibitions presented at the National M. K. Čiurlonis Art Museum 2016-06-23
This time, I suggest looking at the National M. K. Čiurlonis Art Museum's activities and see what interesting, useful and unseen things are happening at the museum's departments. At the exhibitions visitors will be able to get acquainted with Eugenijus Varkulevičius and Vladas Eidukevičius' exhibitions, to remember an important personality in Lithuanian history - Mykolas Kleopas Oginskis - and get acquainted with the exhibition dedicated to his 250th birth anniversary or carefully investigate Norwegian Inger Johanne Brautaset's exposition and Belgian art exhibitions.
The fantasy of the future 2016-06-21
Since many works featured at the exhibition Notes of Tomorrow show the situations of consciously shaped looking but not seeing and not noticing (or seeing obscure forms) a relevant question comes up - did something that is portrayed as a strange vision exist at all? Can its (non) existence ever be repeated?
A different reconstruction of history 2016-06-17
Petras Lincevičius' exhibition-project Land at the Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas Memorial Museum in Vilnius is not a normal everyday phenomenon. It is worth seeing and reflecting on because of the harmony between paintings and drawings and the environment of the exhibition. In this case, the memorial apartment, in addition to becoming a document of history also becomes a new work of art.
Pranas Domšaitis: the language of figurative painting 2016-06-14
The South African-Lithuanian painter of the 20th century Pranas Domšaitis is certainly a representative of figurative painting. In his works, his visual texts, he seeks to know the reality of his country of residence, which for him is the Other, a different experience than Lithuania. P. Domšaitis’ works are dominated by color, the essential and unique sign of his work is an inimitable coloring determined by the South African reality.
Vytautas Kašuba: The dethronement of history 2016-05-30
V. Kašuba is the Lithuanian expatriate artist who opened up Lithuanian sculptural and artistic thinking to the Western context and helped overcome national complexes. This coping is one of the conditions and opportunities of successful creative process of contemporary Lithuanian artists.
End of history: giving sense to the memory of Kazimieras Simonavičius and the art of sculpture 2016-05-25
Reflecting on the memory, the masters of contemporary Lithuanian sculpture organized a unique exhibition dedicated to Kazimieras Simonavičius. It is no coincidence that artists' ideas were supported by the heads of Kazimieras Simonavičius University, therefore the exhibition was held in the university’s premises (J. Basanavičiaus 29A, Vilnius) and it has been delighting the art lovers throughout the month of May.
