{"id":19971,"date":"2020-10-06T13:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/vilniaus-paveikslu-galerija\/parodos\/to-feel-your-land-exhibition-of-works-by-vytautas-valius\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T10:01:44","slug":"to-feel-your-land-exhibition-of-works-by-vytautas-valius","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/vilnius-picture-gallery\/exhibitions\/to-feel-your-land-exhibition-of-works-by-vytautas-valius\/","title":{"rendered":"To Feel Your Land. Exhibition of works by Vytautas Valius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Desert \u2013 \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>man, since time immemorial \u2013 \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2013 and nature \u2013 \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>all that was created by people \u2013 \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 turns into sand \u2013 \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This sentence, found among fragments of marked thoughts, drawings and notes in Vytautas Valius\u2019 studio, represent the essence of this exhibition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last two triptychs, which we have called <em>The Last Supper<\/em>, frame the entire exhibition. These works, as many others, were left untitled by the artist \u2013 there was still a wish to continue working\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>De Profundis<\/em>, <em>Planet<\/em>, <em>Ecology of Culture<\/em> \u2013 these are some of the important cycles that mark the artist\u2019s periods of creative work. Most other works presented in the exhibition have been displayed little or not at all. It is all merely dotted lines-fragments, as if encountered in time that is slipping away, as we are commemorating the 90th anniversary of the artist\u2019s birth and awaiting the publishing of the third overview of his work \u2013 the book <em>Life in Art<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">The artist\u2019s family<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vytautas Valius (1930-2004) \u2013 a famous Lithuanian artist, winner of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts, awarded with the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas \u2013 had a universal, practically a renaissance-like personality: a graphic artist, book illustrator, painter, scenographer, mural creator, compositor, and thinker-philosopher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in Tel\u0161iai, during the years 1950-56 the artist chose to study graphic arts in the State\u00a0Art Institute of\u00a0Lithuania, the <em>Alma Mater<\/em> where he later taught graphic art and composition from 1965 to 1971, eventually dedicating himself entirely to creative work. He illustrated poetry books by such authors as Maironis, Justinas Marcinkevi\u010dius, Janina Degutyt\u0117 and others, created engraving series: <em>1863 in Lithuania<\/em>, <em>Planet,<\/em> <em>Literary Paraphrases,<\/em> <em>Vilnius\u2019 Architecture<\/em> and others, painting series: <em>On the Motives of Lithuanian Folk Art<\/em>, <em>Historical Paraphrases<\/em>, <em>The 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century<\/em>, as well as painting and engraving series: <em>Ecology of Culture<\/em>, painted the walls of Med\u017eiotoj\u0173 U\u017eeiga (1974), a restaurant in Kaunas, and the Lithuanian Studies Reading Room at Vilnius University (1979).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vytautas Valius\u2019 interest in philosophical questions about existence led towards a deeper contemplation of human life and urged him to resist global chaos. The artist was fascinated with the simplicity, nobleness, and inner stillness of folk art, especially sculpture and plastic arts. Equally reserved, generalised, and convincing are his graphic works, distinguishable by their innovatory shapes and multi-layered image monumentality. His perfected individual technique has allowed the artist to elicit varied textures on a sheet\u2019s surface, and to depict subtle nuances of converging colours. The reserved nature of Vytautas Valius becomes more spontaneous, more painful in his painting series. Using a modernist visual language, the artist explored themes that are as relevant now as they were then: decline of spirituality, rising global materialism, preservation of art and cultural heritage, ecology, and forcefully expressed the struggle between creative and destructive forces in human beings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Regina Urbonien\u0117<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curators:<\/strong> Saulius Valius, Egl\u0117 Vali\u016bt\u0117<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coordinator<\/strong> Regina Urbonien\u0117<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Current safety regulations require the visitors to wear face masks and maintaining social distance of at least 2 m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In order to avoid large crowds, the possibility to register your visit in advance is available via phone. The tickets are also available for purchase online at https:\/\/www.tiketa.lt\/EN\/vilniaus_paveikslu_galerija__24867<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Contacts for registration in advance:\u00a0+370 5 212 42 58<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desert \u2013 \u2013 man, since time immemorial \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 and nature \u2013 \u2013 all that was created by people \u2013 \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 turns into sand \u2013 \u2013 This sentence, found among fragments of marked thoughts, drawings and notes in Vytautas Valius\u2019 studio, represent the essence of this exhibition. 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