{"id":20514,"date":"2021-05-20T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/pamario-galerija\/parodos\/nomeda-saukiene-a-small-retrospective\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T08:00:37","slug":"nomeda-saukiene-a-small-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/pamario-gallery\/exhibitions\/nomeda-saukiene-a-small-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomeda Saukien\u0117. A Small Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pamario Gallery in Juodkrant\u0117 on 12 June will open with the first retrospective exhibition presenting works by painter Nomeda Saukien\u0117.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nomeda Saukien\u0117 has been living in Dusetos for many years; she cherishes communing with nature. Being content with joys of summer and huge bunches of various plants in vases and often even buckets in her home, she has managed to transplant the \u201cflower genre\u201d into high-profile art. She gave sense to field and garden flowers, to lupines, quinces, different shades of blue flowers in her paintings, while she glorified aloe in her early works. In the history of Lithuanian art, she stands side by side with the unsurpassable painter of artistic (not salon-style!) flowers, Bron\u0117 Mingailait\u0117 Uogintien\u0117 (1919\u20131983). An essential difference between the two artists is that Nomeda Saukien\u0117\u2019s flowers are not in vases, they thrive in everyday environment; they are like air one needs in order to breathe.<\/p>\n

The painter looks into a motif nearby; she falls in love with it and paints it. Besides, phantasmagorical things frequently happen in her plants and flowers: two foxes in love, quarrelling birds, or a girl deep in her sleep. Nomeda is a master of creating a mood; that is why we, spectators, are sometimes kept in suspense, we feel like protecting a small child lost in plants, as if lost in life, from something bad approaching, invisible yet foreseen.<\/p>\n

The children who the artist paints do not invite a sweet smile: \u201cGame with Smoke\u201d (2011) is filled with the premonition of an approaching threat and has a clear existential dimension. She sees her beloved grandchildren, Elenyt\u0117 and Liudvikas, through artistic eyes and paints them as she used to paint her children, Monika and Mykolas, when they were small kids. Her everyday life, a given, is not portrayed as sweet; she is not (neither does she make us) tearful; she plants their images with her painter brush into a piece of art. This exhibition is the first though a short retrospective of Nomeda Saukien\u0117\u2019s oeure.<\/p>\n

Nomeda Saukien\u0117 (b. 1957) was overshadowed by her husband \u0160ar\u016bnas Sauka\u2019s works for a long time. The artist, actively working since the 1990s, became more visible only in 2017 when she was awarded the Government\u2019s Prize for Culture and Art, although she had been recognised a gifted painter by professionals long before.<\/p>\n

The curator of the exhibition Ramut\u0117 Rachlevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 shares: \u2018A sensitive and fragile relationship saturated with existentialist premonition and fatalism between live and seemingly dying creatures and close commune with the earthly substance of nature are the most outstanding features characterising the thirty-year period of the artist\u2019s creative endeavour. A green den she paints reminds of a cosy shelter and a trap where human beings and animal creatures live their lives in a fairy-tale rich in symbols and metaphors.\u2019<\/p>\n