European art glass panorama in the project European Glass Context 2016 2016-10-12
This autumn, it is still possible to visit one of the most important European ceramics and glass biennials taking place in Denmark, Bornholm. This year it is dedicated to glass art, thus the official title of this year's biennial is European Glass Context 2016. The author of this article has visited the biennial for the fifth time, because that is how many times she has worked with the key Danish authors organizing this European project.
Neemija Arbit Blatas: Lithuanian shtetl in Paris 2016-09-26
Almost all the Litvak artists of the first half of the 20th century who started their life in soon to be or already independent Lithuania, later immigrated to Paris, France. It is impossible to understand the phenomenon they had created there without knowing about the Litvak shtetl tradition.
Andrius Pukis about injecting Kaunas with contemporary art 2016-09-22
I met the sculptor, founder and a curator of POST gallery Andrius Pukis in Laisvės Avenue, when the strong August wind was whipping our hair. Gallery's three-year anniversary was only a couple of days away. "During those years we had so many different images, so we decided to leave the walls empty - instead of an exhibition - and fill the place with a lot of smoke," Andrius explained.
Sometimes painting occurs without a brush 2016-08-24
As far as I remember, Eugenijus Varkulevičius-Varkalis was always traveling - with words, on foot or mystically painting (mystically, as it is unlikely that he uses the brush as often as other painters). All his oral narratives revolve around the road. And they started a long time ago, probably, during the childhood years, when he would model cities, towns or battle fields out of plasticine, in detail, to the "very last tile." The imagined world later on moved to the West, where he went in order to return back home.
Berlin contemporary art biennial resonances 2016-08-08
The 9th Berlin Biennial - one of the most famous European contemporary art exhibitions - this year is taking place from June to September. It seems that we visit it less than the popular Venice biennial, Documenta in Kassel or Manifesto which constantly changes its location. After all, it is quite paradoxical: Berlin is not that far from Lithuania and the biennial project organized there is as good as the mentioned exhibitions, both with its size and the artistic intrigue.
Painter Agnė Liškauskienė, "The condition for creation is racing against time" 2016-08-04
Artist Agnė Liškauskienė draws the motifs for her canvases - free from literary narrations or social contexts - from the surrounding nature. She subtly abstracts the objects and phenomena met in reality to a conceptual sign or simply a color field, turning their identification into a very difficult task. Often, the only thing that helps overcome it, is the title of the work.