{"id":23820,"date":"2025-03-28T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/radvilu-rumu-dailes-muziejus\/parodos\/post-ars-stuff\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:36:43","slug":"post-ars-stuff","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/radvila-palace-museum-of-art\/exhibitions\/post-ars-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Ars. Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether or not tomorrow comes, the group Post Ars is growing the Tree of Life. They sow something in their own peculiar way, seeds falling straight into the sky. What will grow from them? Will a new world emerge, or will everything plunge into the abyss\u2014where there is nothing but decay, ashes, and the remnants of civilization? In times of uncertainty, truth distorts, but faith in art\/non-art\/anti-art endures, along with hope, restrained by sarcasm. The artist\u2019s free gesture snags on a staff of barbed wire, ringing out a note of boundless optimism.<\/p>\n

Post Ars was formed in 1989 when a group of young artists set out to carry forward the determination of the interwar artist group Ars and shape a new artistic era in a reborn Lithuania. They recognised that \u201cchange in art is essential\u2014if not us, then who will initiate it?\u201d Their aim was to grasp the universal dimensions of existence by breaking through the narrow artistic boundaries imposed during the Soviet era. They drew on Fluxus playfulness, Dada semiotics, and a Kharmsian deconstruction of meaning. Terms such as \u201cinstallation,\u201d \u201caction,\u201d and \u201cperformance\u201d entered the artistic vocabulary. They experimented with musical acts, assemblage, text and printmaking, design, pedagogy, video art, photography, sculpture that rejected permanence, and transformations through fire. Land art also found its place\u2014at the 1993 Europa-Biennale Niederlausitz II in Germany, the group\u2019s renowned work The Score<\/em> won the Grand Prix. In many ways, Post Ars can also be seen as pioneers of artistic research.<\/p>\n

In its early days, Post Ars sought to involve as many artists from different fields as possible. They were invited to a founding conference-happening and an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre. Over time, as many pursued their own paths, the group\u2019s core solidified around Aleksas Andriu\u0161kevi\u010dius, Robertas Antinis, \u010ceslovas Lukenskas, and Gintaras Zinkevi\u010dius. However, exhibitions, happenings, and handmade books continued to welcome collaborators and guests. Upholding this tradition, the current exhibition features Laima Kreivyt\u0117 and Coolt\u016brist\u0117s, a collective she founded in 2005\u2014sporty, \u201ccool\u201d cultural tourists from outer space who find it strange that equal rights are still not recognised for all variations of Homo sapiens<\/em>. Through their interventions, the exhibition will uncover poetic resonances, ruptures of meaning, and assemblages of our time.<\/p>\n

After thirty-six years of growth, the branching tree has borne fruit. Yet, as the world crumbles, it is once again time to raise the Post Ars flag\u2014who, if not artists, will defend the freedom of the spirit?<\/p>\n

Agn\u0117 Naru\u0161yt\u0117<\/em><\/p>\n

Organiser: The Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the LNMA<\/p>\n

The project is financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania<\/p>\n

Media partners: LRT, JCDecaux Lietuva\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curator: Agn\u0117 Naru\u0161yt\u0117\u00a0<\/p>\n

Artists:\u00a0Aleksas Andriu\u0161kevi\u010dius, Robertas Antinis, \u010ceslovas Lukenskas, Gintaras Zinkevi\u010dius, Laima Kreivyt\u0117 and Coolt\u016brist\u0117s\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coordinators: Justina Augustyt\u0117, Vilt\u0117 Visockait\u0117\u00a0<\/p>\n

Architect: Aleksandras Kavaliauskas\u00a0<\/p>\n

Graphic designer: Vytautas Volbekas<\/p>\n

Translator Erika Lastovskyt\u0117<\/p>\n

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