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“I was not much into arts, I was much more interested in music, but my parents, especially mother, directed me towards art,” the painter, creator of video art, video and audio installations Eugenijus Varkulevičius-Varkalis (b. 1956) starts his personal story in this way. 4
“I was not much into arts, I was much more interested in music, but my parents, especially mother, directed me towards art,” the painter, creator of video art, video and audio installations Eugenijus Varkulevičius-Varkalis (b. 1956) starts his personal story in this way.
Works displayed in the painting exhibition of Milda Gailiūtė “Vienna” at Kaunas Meno Parkas gallery may be divided into two groups: works created in Vienna in 2012 and works created in Lithuania in 2014. The artist was on the art residency in the capital of Austria two years ago after winning the Young Painter Prize in 2011. M. Gailiūtė lived and created for three months there; therefore, the aim of the exhibition is to show the cityscape, to reveal emotions of the artist in a foreign country, to present views and memories that arose after returning to Lithuania. 2
Works displayed in the painting exhibition of Milda Gailiūtė “Vienna” at Kaunas Meno Parkas gallery may be divided into two groups: works created in Vienna in 2012 and works created in Lithuania in 2014. The artist was on the art residency in the capital of Austria two years ago after winning the Young Painter Prize in 2011. M. Gailiūtė lived and created for three months there; therefore, the aim of the exhibition is to show the cityscape, to reveal emotions of the artist in a foreign country, to present views and memories that arose after returning to Lithuania.
The 110th birth anniversary of the artist Antanas Gudaitis (1904 – 1989) is marked this year. On the occasion of the anniversary the exhibition “People Looking at the Stars” was organised at the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, in which drawings of the artist stored in the museum funds were presented. On the basis of the exhibition, the author reminds of exceptional works of A. Gudaitis – drawings – again.
