Feliksas Daukantas dreamt of perfect society, with its harmonious relations reflected in a wisely arranged environment. It would be simple and convenient for people to live in his utopian city where all things would serve them: when a new resident settles in, he/she finds necessary household appliances and compatible elements of the interior, rationally laid out streets ensuring the shortest way to one’s destination, symbolic signs and appropriately adjusted advertisement lights helping to find one’s way even at night, and freedom of movement facilitated by public transport that should be free as Daukantas repeatedly suggested in the press as far back as the 1960s. Even in decorating confectionary, he looked for compositions which would meet the taste of every one who has a sweet tooth.
The integral system of things in the environment that Daukantas created was not easy to implement, therefore a large part of his ideas remained in projects, sketches and dozens of articles published in the press of the time. This exhibition features all the material collected from various institutions and private collections and supplemented with the author’s authentic thoughts. It aims to highlight Daukantas’ theoretical principles of design and to present his works part of which remained in photos. Daukantas’ œuvre is exhibited for the first time and spans well-known areas of artistic activity (jewellery, leather and metal artwork) and less-known to the general public design works, sculptures, photographs, and cartoons.
Exhibition curators: Gražina Gurnevičiūtė, Živilė Intaitė
Exhibition architect Justinas Dūdėnas
Exhibition graphic designer Laura Grigaliūnaitė
Consultant in collecting the exhibition material Dr Karolina Jakaitė
Partners: Company Design Foundation, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius Academy of Arts
The project is financed by
