{"id":23439,"date":"2024-11-11T07:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T05:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/nacionaline-dailes-galerija\/parodos\/pranas-domsaitis-1880-1965-her-his-figure\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T05:16:28","slug":"pranas-domsaitis-1880-1965-her-his-figure","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/national-gallery-of-art\/exhibitions\/pranas-domsaitis-1880-1965-her-his-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pranas Dom\u0161aitis (1880\u20131965). Her \/ His Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The narrative of the exhibition “Her \/ His Figure”, dedicated to the oeuvre of painter Pranas Dom\u0161aitis (1880\u20131965), is the figure of the artist as a nomad, migrant, and emigrant. The artist’s creative legacy meanders through East Prussia, Germany, Austria, and finally, South Africa. He not only captured the landscapes of geographical locations where he stayed for shorter or longer periods, but also, as a nomad by nature, sketched the landscapes to which his curiosity drew him. These were mainly countries beyond the borders of the European continent: Tunisia, Somalia, the Bosphorus Strait, Turkey, and so on. During his travels, Dom\u0161aitis paid much attention to observing the environment. Nature and the inhabitants of various places were the artist’s main source of inspiration and the subject of his paintings. Thus, sketches from his travels, made in pencil or pastel and later transferred to canvas in oil, show figures \u2013 usually of women \u2013 posing <\/span>en face<\/span><\/i> for the artist\/viewer or performing everyday household chores. The portrait genre paintings, framed by the “male gaze”, easily identify the dominant canon of female representation at the time \u2013 the imperative of exoticized beauty, distinct ethnic features, and subtle psychologism.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition intertwines two genres of classical painting \u2013 portraiture and landscape \u2013 to highlight the color nuances of different geographical sceneries and the interactions between the ethnic features of the portrayed, mainly women, as well as the links between postcolonialism and climate change. Issues of identity eventually arise in the attempt to characterize the portrait of Dom\u0161ai\u010dius himself, a foreigner without a homeland (German: <\/span>Heimatlose Ausl\u00e4nder<\/span><\/i>).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The artist’s artistic legacy, presented in this exhibition, shows that the (art) world, which has been migrating between languages and cultures, identities and geographies, is constantly confronted with a self-consciousness of “them” and “us”, and encounters the codes of a visual language that has deep-rooted (ideological) traditions in Western culture.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

National Gallery of Art under the\u202fLithuanian National Museum of Art<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition curator: Au\u0161ra Trak\u0161elyt\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Coordinator: Gabriel\u0117 Radzevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition architect: Mindaugas Reklaitis<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition designer: Laura Grigali\u016bnait\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Translator: Aleksandra Fominait\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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