{"id":24021,"date":"2025-06-09T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/pamario-galerija\/parodos\/sarunas-leonavicius-the-multilayered-world-of-being\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:13:41","slug":"sarunas-leonavicius-the-multilayered-world-of-being","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/pamario-gallery\/exhibitions\/sarunas-leonavicius-the-multilayered-world-of-being\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0160ar\u016bnas Leonavi\u010dius. The Multilayered World of Being\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u0160ar\u016bnas Leonavi\u010dius (born in 1960) <\/span>is one of the most outstanding and unique Lithuanian graphic artists.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>His oeuvre is distinguished by meticulous drawing, refined technique, and intellectual content imbued with symbols and metaphors. The artist’s works are rich visual narratives, unfolding between history, mythology, religion, literature, and surrealist imagination.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition presents works from the series dedicated to Lithuanian ethnologist and writer Gintaras Beresnevi\u010dius’ book “<\/span>Lietuvi\u0173 religija ir mitologija<\/span>” (Lithuanian Religion and Mythology, 2008), Kristijonas Donelaitis’ long poem “Metai” (The Seasons, 2014), as well as etchings and ink drawings of various periods, on religious, mythological, and poetic themes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leonavi\u010dius’ artworks often resemble architectural drawings: strictly structured, technically precise, but simultaneously full of metaphysical tension. They combine bodies and figures with elements of nature and ornaments, while the allusion to ancient scripts and the aesthetics of engravings manifest themselves as fragments of contemporary visual theology.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leonavi\u010dius, like an alchemist, connects the eras, and in his etchings and drawings, one can see references to the works of D\u00fcrer, Piranesi, or Goya, however, these are not quotations of style, but visual dialogues with cultural history and memory. Although the artworks are full of allusions to the Bible, ancient iconography, Baltic mythology, or esoteric symbolism, Leonavi\u010dius is not didactic. On the contrary, his oeuvre invites reflection, insight, and contemplation. Here, the viewer becomes a slow reader, as if opening an old book, where each page, filled with subtle, interwoven drawings, ever tells a new story.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leonavi\u010dius’ monochrome illustrations for Donelaitis’ “The Seasons”, executed on special paper by painting and drawing, intertwine images of the 18th-century Prussian countryside, the archaic relationship of human to the land, and the cyclical time of nature. Leonavi\u010dius avoids being illustrative in the strict sense: his oeuvre reveals a distinctive, multi-layered world in which even the smallest detail \u2013 a character, an object, a plant, an architectural element, or a fragment of nature \u2013 is not accidental. Each element of the image conveys a deeper meaning related to the nation’s culture, its values, its identity, and its struggle for survival, unfolding through its language, customs, beliefs, and connection to nature.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In his interpretation of Gintaras Beresnevi\u010dius’ oeuvre, Leonavi\u010dius takes another step \u2013 from historical reconstruction to cultural deconstructivism. In illustrating Beresnevi\u010dius’ texts, he depicts not specific plots, but the very way of thinking \u2013 mythological, ironic, and sometimes surreal. It is a world where ancient Baltic gods, celestial bodies, winged people, and other mythical entities fit in, constantly intertwining and changing. These works are distinguished not only by their narrative but also by their visual language, as if the artist were trying to embody the very pulsation of Beresnevi\u010dius’ texts, their wanderings between time, reality, and consciousness.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0160ar\u016bnas Leonavi\u010dius’ exhibition is not only an artistic experience, but also an encounter with text, culture, and memory. The viewer is invited here not only to look, but also to read the image \u2013 slowly and with an open heart.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Curator<\/strong> Alg\u0117 Gudaityt\u0117<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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