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In brief: It is not a book that will let you enjoy the consumer-orientated feeling of reading. It will award you with new experience: mass culture is not derogated; it is being played with its symbols. Triviality and daily routine are harmonised with poetry. Language is not only a means of communication; it is a way of experimentation (the poet’s game with language reminds of avangardistic searches for the tetra-winders).
One should say that the works Č.Lukenskas with their positive and negative features do not let the complicated, deep Kaunas art that leaves traces and scars die. We are speaking about art left by the “break generation” in the history of Lithuanian art, starting with Arūnas Vaitkūnas, Rimvydas Jankauskas-Kampas and ending with the activity of Post Ars group.
In brief: The election of the Book of the Year announced at the beginning of October became an unexpected piece of news for some people, like snow in the middle of the summer. Readers interested in Lithuanian cultural life should not be explained what this election is. However, even though the action is organised for the fifth time already, it happens that people hear about it for the first time.
The members of the active alternative literature movement Žirklionis discuss their impressions experienced in the events “Poetical Autumn of Druskininkai 2009” and festival of audiovisual poetry “Between” seriously and with jokes. The young literature people, who searched for professionalism and sincerity in gatherings of poets, found even things they did not really want to find.
Winners of the competition “Young Painter’s Prize'09” were announced at Vilnius Pamėnkalnis gallery on the evening of the 29th of October. A.Zakarauskas, who celebrated his birthday on this day, was recognized the best (painting "Horizontal Strokes"). He was granted LTL 7 000 prize and was provided the possibility to organise a one-man exhibition at Pamėnkalnis gallery in 2010.
Kaunas art biennial should create background for renewing cultural activity and invite like-minded people to discuss about culture of citizens. It should rally people of art and culture, awaken cultural life and let everyone share experience of other fields. The biennial “Textile’09” of this year tried to do this. However, is “Textile’09” the only that is capable/should/must do this?
The usual digital print and creation of a view on a computer screen really causes the lack of more diverse feelings. One of such feelings is touching. Therefore, it is evident that digital technologies are not powerful enough to push out the live drawing from the stage of contemporary art that enables the viewer to recognise the authentic stroke of an artist’s pencil, pen or line in ink.
