On November 4th (Friday) at 6 pm at the gallery “Meno parkas” (Rotušės a. 27, Kaunas) will be held an opening of two exhibitions. On the gallery’s first floor exposition hall will be opening of the exhibition HEARTS by young painter Alma Veiverytė, and on the second floor international exhibition NET FREEDOM ART SHOW (curator Jorge Cortell-Albert). 8 authors from diferent countries are participating at the exhibition, and among them Lithuanian artist Patricija Gilytė.
For the exhibition of hearts
Trying to explain the meaning
When I was younger, I would often look at the city lights, and they would always look like a promise, that somewhere there is a life that is waiting for me.
While listening to songs about love I would understand that what it is put inside, we have all felt at one point or we just will. Sometimes I memorize lyrics, a part of dialogue which would remain inside of my mind for quite a period. It seems insignificant but it always comes up.
My heart is controlling me, what I feel or I do not, it changes my behaviour, what I can do, create and sense.
“Life cannot be in your way if you do not listen to your heart. You cannot create yourself, you have to obey your fate”. That is what I have been told by my grandfather. As ironically as it sounds, the frames in which we live in should tear apart and the new era should start, but that is a choice of our hearts(?).
In 2014, Lana del Rey released a hit “West Coast”, as romantic as all of her songs. There is a line in that song which says: “Down on the west coast I get this feeling like it all could happen”. It is like a metaphor of a place which does not exist, but is inside of us. Or a moment when we start believing in ourselves and something happens to this world, that changes us; life gets a meaning for those moments.
In winter of that year, I was painting a cycle of hearts, after which they were standing in the studio for a long time while I decorated them with spray paint. I think some of my works got a little bit alike “graffiti”, others stayed a bit more subtle.
Alma Veiveryte
I have known Alma Veiveryte for a long time, she was my classmate and I remember her from the first courses after I came back from academic sabbatical. She was a colleague with which we would work in practice until we would fall down. Alma was a complete workaholic, while at her bachelor’s the first few years she was a lithuanian school expressionist, she would paint “with clay”, how it should be in a traditional art school, with a big dab. Drawings were joint, often a piece of sculpture, you could feel the dynamics. She was always one of the best artists in our group. Then Alma went to Spain, after which she came back completely changed. She went there with a programme of “Erasmus” and came back filled with new ideas of modern art. Maybe, at the time for some people it was hard to recognize her in that way because she was completely changed, she refused to paint in an old way and went to, how germans would say “Entartete kunst”.
Referring to symbols, looking at kid’s paintings, she was going deep into herself and you could always see that. Often she would picture strange worlds of dreams. Alma would paint with enamel and other types of dyes and plasticity would get the tremor.
For a real artist, painting is like a drug, even when it is extremely hard – he would always turn into his work and will look for an overflow in it – that is the real intention.
The first mature exhibition, where Alma really expresses herself. Stroke of the brush, courage to show such a simple symbol not trying to express some kind of bacchanalia’s. That is what is going deep into a colour, into yourself is. Naked artist’s soul is the real truth, that is the main beauty, the main essence of painting and art itself.
Ignas Gleixner
Exhibition is part of gallery’s project “The Young. Green Consciousness-6”.
Project is part-financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Kaunas City Municipality.
International Art Exhibition brings together works by artists from 8 countries
In collaboration with the Internet Freedom Festival held in Valencia (Spain) from 2 to 6 March, the Net Freedom Art Show is a multidisciplinary collective international exhibition of contemporary art. After its debut in Spain, it arrives in Lithuania November 4 – December 2, and then it will travel to galleries in New York, London, and Santiago de Chile.
The independent activist curator and London resident Jorge Cortell-Albert, advisor to the Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and visiting professor at the Italian Libera Accademia Belle Arti, has collected works by Carlos Motta (Colombia), Pawel Althamer (Poland), Osamu Tezuka (Japan), Dave Cicirelli (USA), Patricija Gilyte (Lithuania), Claudio Zirotti (Italy), Mery (Spain), and Paulina Vassileva (Bulgary).
Most of the works come from private collections, acquired in museums like the Guggenheim and the New Museum in New York. Others have been donated by the artists, having been exhibited in places like the Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York, or Art Basel.
“With this provocative, irreverent, and atypical exhibition I intend to provoke reflection on some of the focal points of the struggle for freedom on the Internet, such as Community, Gender, Diversity, Media, Technology, Best Practices, Design and Politics.” Comments Jorge Cortell-Albert “in this sense all works integrate multiple messages. Even the heterogeneous group of selected artists represents the diverse nature of the Internet.”
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Exhibition is part of gallery’s international artistic – cultural exchange project “Line Art”.
Project is part-financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Kaunas City Municipality.
Exhibitions will be opened till December 2nd
