{"id":22394,"date":"2023-11-24T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T10:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/vytauto-kasiulio-dailes-muziejus\/renginiai\/vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art-hosts-an-exhibition-celebrating-the-birth-centenary-of-the-graphic-artist-zibuntas-miksys\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T10:55:35","slug":"vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art-hosts-an-exhibition-celebrating-the-birth-centenary-of-the-graphic-artist-zibuntas-miksys","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art\/events\/vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art-hosts-an-exhibition-celebrating-the-birth-centenary-of-the-graphic-artist-zibuntas-miksys\/","title":{"rendered":"Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art hosts an exhibition celebrating the birth centenary of the graphic artist \u017dibuntas Mik\u0161ys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art bids farewell to autumn by holding an artistic event of significance. At 6 p.m. Thursday 30 November the museum opens an exhibition \u017dibuntas Mik\u0161ys\/Kad b\u016bt sugr\u012f\u017etama\/<\/em>Hoping for a Homecoming \/Pour qu\u2018on revienne<\/em>. The centenary exhibition offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of \u017dibuntas Mik\u0161y\u2019 creative legacy, and sheds light on his artistic and intellectual milieu.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is impossible to discuss Mik\u0161ys singly as an artist, he was a person engaged with multiple spheres of intellectual activity, who acted as a catalyst, intellectual and emotional, of the Lithuanian cultural world in want of authentic landmarks and sources. His critique, the books he shipped to Lithuania, his help with the return of the archives to Lithuania offered sustenance to Lithuanian artists and intellectuals suffering behind the Iron Curtain. Occasionally \u017dibuntas\u2019 criticism was rather bitter and scathing, but behind it you could not but feel his painful concern that Lithuania rejoins more promptly the family of civilized European states\u2019, says Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, director general of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seven cosmopolitan creative decades<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is the first\u00a0 exhibition of \u017dibuntas Mik\u0161ys of this scope tracing his seven-decade\u2013long creative career. Better known as a creator of miniature prints of refined aesthetics, Mik\u0161ys in this event is introduced with his large-scale lettered graphic prints which he started to produce when he lived in the United States.<\/p>\n

The fields that attracted him \u2013 the theatre and German literature – linked naturally with the illustrations of fairy-tales and plays. Post-war years brought in characters with whom he shared a hard refugee fate. The exhibition presents series of views of Paris and Venice, also examples of small-size graphic art \u2013 the prints populated with texts, also bookplates, collages, artist\u2019s scrapbooks, the latter being a rich and unknown part of his legacy. These diaries of a special form for recording one\u2019s thoughts were constantly supplemented by the artist, recreated, sometimes gifted to close friends. Among them were also the ones which helped to navigate in a maze-like complex world of the studio, notes and the works of art.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Mik\u0161ys is usually cited as a graphic artist. He indeed mostly explored this medium in his art. Graphic prints enabled him to connect three vitally important spheres of culture: theatre, art and literature. Aside from the early Expressionist figure compositions and later occasionally recurring landscapes, the rest of Mik\u0161ys\u2019 work (lettered compositions, illustrations, bookplates, pastiches) one way or another relates with the book, text, theatre, with the world of imagination that one can take along to anywhere in the world; one can also plunge into it easily no matter the place \u2013 yet better if it is a place like Venice or Paris, which stimulates imagination and offers motifs for creation\u2019, states Prof. Dr Giedr\u0117 Jankevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117.<\/p>\n

Links with the like-minded colleagues of the world of art<\/strong><\/p>\n

The nucleus of creative ideas and friendships of Mik\u0161ys\u2019 career was Jacques Desjobert\u2019s lithography printers in Paris. The Johnny Friedlaender\u2019s graphic art studio that operated there kept Mik\u0161ys engaged for thirty-two years, the time of intense exchange of ideas. From the studio he built links with the artists of different countries, German Rainer Gottlieb Mordm\u00fcller, French Brigitte Coudrain, Swiss Fiorenza Bassetti, Lithuanian graphic artist Linas Jablonskis, his future creative collaborators. The artists exchanged their copper plates with started work and developed each other\u2019s ideas. They also dedicated to each other their prints, bookplates, collages and postcards. The spirit of experiment was a unifying force of their tandem with his wife Miriam Meras.<\/p>\n

Mik\u0161ys broad correspondence reached his addressees in different countries and the artists in Soviet Lithuania. A separate part of the exhibition introduces, for the first time, examples of his postal art, stylistically linked with the work by the artists-rebels of the official canon Vincas Kisarauskas, Vytautas Kalinauskas, Valentinas Antanavi\u010dius, Edmundas Salad\u017eius and others.<\/p>\n

The exhibition includes video materials from the musicologist Vita Gruodyt\u0117\u2019s private archive and video projections created by the stage director Jonas Juozapaitis.<\/p>\n

The exhibition features 150 works from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius University Library, the Lithuanian Literature and Art Archives, from Janina and Vygintas Ali\u0161auskas\u2019 collection and from other private collections. Fiorenza Bassetti and Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas have gifted artwork to the LNAM on the occasion of the exhibition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u017dibuntas Mik\u0161ys\/Kad b\u016bt sugr\u012f\u017etama\/<\/em><\/strong>Hoping for a Homecoming \/Pour qu\u2018on revienne<\/em><\/strong> at<\/strong> V<\/strong>ytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art (A. Go\u0161tauto g. 1, Vilnius) of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art opens 30 November and will run through 3 March 2024. <\/strong>The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive programme of events, including educational for children, youth, families, adults and the disabled.<\/p>\n

Exhibition curators: Erika Grigoravi\u010dien\u0117, Ilona Ma\u017eeikien\u0117, Regina Urbonien\u0117.<\/p>\n

Exhibition architect Jurgis Dagelis.<\/p>\n

Exhibition designer Marius \u017dalneravi\u010dius.<\/p>\n

Project supported by Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation in Bremen, by Rainer Gotlieb Mordm\u00fcller.<\/p>\n

Information supporters: LRT, Cultural Attach\u00e9 Office of the Republic of Lithuania in France, Cultural Attach\u00e9 Office of the Republic of Lithuania in the Federal Republic of Germany, Lithuanian World Community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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