Due to a confluence of historical circumstances, in her art Kasuba blended the ethical and cultural traditions of Lithuanian manor owners of the late nineteenth century and the first independent Republic of Lithuania (1918\u20131940) with New York’s democratically rebellious energy of the second half of the twentieth century, open to innovation and experiments.<\/p>\n
Constructed chronologically, the exhibition presents and juxtaposes applied, experimental, hybrid art, along with design, architectural practices, and theoretical insights of the artist \u2013 the consistently developed Kasuba\u2019s vision of sustainable architecture as a social instrument and shelters without right angles. To emphasize the tenacity and universality of these aims, the title of Kasuba’s first solo exhibition\u00a0Shaping the Future<\/em>,\u00a0which took place at the Esther M. Klein Gallery of the University City Science Center in Philadelphia in 1989, has been adapted as the title of the current exhibition. The artist is presented by the name of Kasuba, which she used while living in the USA and by which she is known in the international art scene.<\/p>\n The exhibition is centered around a reconstruction of Kasuba’s first tensile-fabric environment without right angles (1970), inside which her last videowork\u00a0F1 and F2\u00a0Elsewhere<\/em>\u00a0(2018) is screened, and a motif of three houses \u2013 presenting the living spaces that were particularly important throughout the creative career of the artist who wanted to become an architect. The first is Gink\u016bnai Manor, the home of her grandparents, the Zubovs, and her parents, the Fled\u017einskas. The family was ordered to leave the house in 24 hours when the Soviets occupied Lithuania in 1940. In the studio of the second house near the Central Park in Manhattan, New York, to which she moved with her family in 1963, Kasuba installed her open to the public tensile-fabric \u00a0Live-In Environment<\/em>\u00a0 (1971\u20131972). The last house is Rock Hill House<\/em> (2001\u20132005), located in New Mexico, with a residential house and a guest unit, which was built using her original K-method for membrane hardening. The artist lived there until 2012.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n This unique narrative, which has no analogues in the development of Lithuanian Modernism in its continuity and fulfillment of visionary endeavors, illustrates the artist’s persuasion that \u2018creative development is determined only by the artist’s personal decisions and efforts, no matter in what regime he or she might live.\u2019<\/p>\n Curator of the exhibition Shaping the Future: Environments by Aleksandra Kasuba<\/em>:\u00a0Elona Lubyt\u0117<\/p>\n \nArchitects:\u00a0Rokas Kil\u010diauskas and Aleksandras Kavaliauskas<\/p>\n \nGraphic designer:\u00a0Laura Grigali\u016bnait\u0117<\/p>\n \nProject partners: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Lietuvos kult\u016bros institutas, Vilniaus dail\u0117s akademija<\/p>\n \nProject sponsors:\u00a0Lewben Art Foundation, Art Fund,\u00a0INTI<\/p>\n \nMedia sponsor:\u00a0JCDecaux<\/p>\n \nSponsors:\u00a0Exterus, Fundermax<\/p>\n Projects are financed by\u00a0<\/p>\n The exhibition presents, for the first time, the creative heritage of the visionary Lithuanian American environmental artist Aleksandra Fled\u017einskait\u0117-Ka\u0161ubien\u0117-Kasuba (1923\u20132019), spanning seven decades of her work (1942\u20132019). The core of the exhibition consists of works gifted by the artist to the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and a collection of 8,000 digital images, which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20525,"template":"","tags":[],"department":[74],"parodos-zymos":[195],"class_list":["post-20524","paroda","type-paroda","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-national-gallery-of-art","parodos-zymos-paroda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pro-vg_d-LKT_EN.jpg\")
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