{"id":24094,"date":"2025-07-11T14:54:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/radvilu-rumu-dailes-muziejus\/parodos\/evaldas-jansas-extrapolation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:54:40","slug":"evaldas-jansas-extrapolation","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/radvila-palace-museum-of-art\/exhibitions\/evaldas-jansas-extrapolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaldas Jansas. Extrapolation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018With plastic arts, you can express everything immediately, throw everything at the viewer in one go […] What I\u2019m trying to say is that I don\u2019t intellectualise my works, I don\u2019t try to hide my idea, I seek clarity and state my thoughts in a way that is easy to understand even for an uneducated viewer.\u2019<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Evaldas Jansas<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Evaldas Jansas broke into the Lithuanian visual arts scene in a spectacular manner in the early 1990s, at the dawn of Lithuanian independence and a time of rampant capitalism, with his \u2018impact\u2019 objects, brutal performances, bold actions, \u2018rough\u2019 installations, videos that immerse viewers into the thick of it, and other works, cutting deep \u2018wounds in the (imaginary) body of Lithuanian art history as if with a shard of a broken bottle.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Evaldas Jansas is one of a few artists who have become household names. More than just a restless bohemian soul, he is the <\/span>enfant terrible<\/span><\/i> of the turn-of-the-century contemporary art system in Vilnius and a prominent interdisciplinarian. <\/span>Jansas <\/span><\/i>is also a sociocultural phenomenon, a <\/span>legend<\/span><\/i> and an <\/span>icon<\/span><\/i> symbolising broken aesthetic and social conventions, artistic transgressions, and various (im)possible other liminal experiences that the so-called \u2018respectable society\u2019 tends to ignore.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, the audience\u2019s \u2018aesthetic taste\u2019 and overall nervous system are in for a serious stress-test through an encounter with a unique kind of beauty of gritty mundanity that develops into aggressive sociability and self-harm, with the naked body and its fluids, and even with \u2018art objects\u2019 matured inside the artist\u2019s intestines! There will also be sarcastic cultural references in post-punk paintings and self-portraits balancing on the edge between caricature and tastelessness, saturated with both harsh (self-)deprecation and honest, aching self-reflection.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This exhibition claims to be a retrospective of Evaldas Jansas, summarising over three decades of creative work. It is laid out into three decades (or \u2018Jansas Epochs\u2019): 1993\u20132003, 2004\u20132014 and 2014\u22122025. However, such a museological\/chronological structure is by no means straightforward or obvious. It is \u2018dissolved\u2019 in impulsive fluctuations, subjectivised through diary-like (in)consistencies, eclectic yet shaken together into a hard-hitting cocktail.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the one hand, it is an autobiography as told by the artist, because Jansas\u2019s works emerge from situations in everyday life. This is why the artist\u2019s work can also be seen as a mirror to independent Lithuania and the genesis of its contemporary art. On the other hand, Jansas appears to have succeeded in distilling a certain \u2018psycho-aesthetic condensate\u2019 in his work, as if an \u2018essence\u2019 that elevates the works from being mere artefacts of an era. Jansas\u2019s work is steeped in being: it is not only actively engaged in a conversation with the present but also rooted in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

K\u0119stutis \u0160apoka\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Extrapolation<\/span><\/span>*<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

* An application of past experience to predict unknown (future) phenomena, assuming that conditions will remain largely unchanged.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition Curator: K\u0119stutis \u0160apoka\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Architect: Gintaras Makarevi\u010dius\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Graphic Designer: Lina Bastien\u0117\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Organisers:\u00a0 Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art\u00a0, gallery \u201eMOrka\u201c\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
The project is financed by: Lithuanian Council for Culture\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Media sponsor JCDecaux Lithuania<\/span><\/div>\n
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