{"id":23403,"date":"2024-10-29T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T09:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/vytauto-kasiulio-dailes-muziejus\/renginiai\/vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art-of-the-lnma-presents-the-artwork-by-lithuanian-australian-painter-jurgis-miksevicius\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T09:13:58","slug":"vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art-of-the-lnma-presents-the-artwork-by-lithuanian-australian-painter-jurgis-miksevicius","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art\/events\/vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art-of-the-lnma-presents-the-artwork-by-lithuanian-australian-painter-jurgis-miksevicius\/","title":{"rendered":"Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA presents the artwork by Lithuanian-Australian painter Jurgis Miksevicius\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA opens a retrospective exhibition The Worlds of Jurgis Miksevicius. <\/i>It is the first in Lithuania comprehensive presentation of the artwork by Jurgis Miksevicius (1923\u20132014). It is curated by Ilona Ma\u017eeikien\u0117, director of Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA, Regina Urbonien\u0117, Head of the Fine Arts Department, and the artist\u2019s daughter Carolyn Leigh. On display are the works by the painter gifted to Lithuania by the painter\u2019s family. The exhibition will be on through 30 March, 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lithuanian National Museum of Art puts sustained effort to bring back to Lithuania the art of the famed Lithuanian \u00e9migr\u00e9 artists, presenting them to the public at impressive exhibitions. Thanks to consistent work of the Museum\u2019s curators and our partners, such names as Aleksandra Kasuba, Pranas Dom\u0161aitis, Eva Kubba, \u017dibuntas Mik\u0161ys, Antanas Mon\u010dys, as well as the renowned Litvak artists, have already received a place of significance in the history of Lithuanian art, when we have learned more of the life and art of the Lithuanian emigrees. This autumn it is time for a deeper encounter with the talent of Jurgis Miksevicius who created art in Australia. We owe this opportunity to the generous Miksevicius family,\u201d Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, director general of the Lithuanian Museum of Art says.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The oeuvre of the artist evokes the experience of war, celebrates Australian landscape, and explores the theme of the sacred\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

\u201cMy paintings are the sum of my life, events are secondary to it. If I have anything to say it can only be said in paintings and words can only be a paler reflection of it,\u201d the artist said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The legacy of the artist who spoke in paintings is composed of a diversity of genre: landscapes, portraits, still-life, abstracts, and drawings. The exhibition curators see the intense emotional states in Miksevicius\u2019s paintings as kindred with German Expressionism, while his explorations for new colour harmonies and his modernist expression bring him together with Paul Klee\u2019s abstractions and avant-garde experiments, and finally, his meditative moods link him to the practice of Indian mysticism. The multifaceted art by the painter weaves together the theme of painful experiences of Europe engulfed by the war, the artist\u2019s fascination with Australian landscape, his warmth and empathy to other humans, and the dimension of the sacred.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The past decade saw the creative phenomenon of Miksevicius broadly illuminated in Australia by his solo exhibitions in <\/span>Leura, Manly, Bathurst. According to the famous Australian art critic Roger Butler, we often attempt to sum up an artist and to grasp their role on the broader field of the history of art only posthumously. Though belated, according to the critic, this recognition is greatly consequential, and the celebration of Jurgis Miksevicius, the quiet and insatiable art practitioner, is no exception.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Buddhism-practicing Lithuanian painter of the Bauhaus formation\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

Jurgis Miksevicius was born on 8 March 1923 in \u0160iauliai, in the family of construction engineer Medardas Leonas Mik\u0161evi\u010dius and doctor-paediatrician Elena \u010cechirovait\u0117. In 1940, he graduated from the Au\u0161ra boys\u2019 gymnasium in Kaunas.<\/span> Following the retreat of his<\/span> family from Lithuania in 1941, he completed high school in Berlin. From 1946, <\/span>Jurgis Miksevicius<\/span> studied architecture at the University of Technology in Darmstadt, where he also attended Prof. Paul Thesing\u2019s studio and learned the theory of colour, the foundations of abstract, and design. The students followed a curriculum that applied the Bauhaus principles. It was during his studies in Germany, the exhibition curators note, that Miksevicius came of age as an artist with his own aesthetic values and artistic tastes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1948, he emigrated to Australia, where he initially worked at the Bathurst (New South Wales) migrant camp, later was employed in construction works in the capital city. In a year\u2019s time he became the first Lithuanian member of Artists\u2019 Society of Canberra. In<\/span> 1953, the artist moved to Sydney where he participated in the activities of the Contemporary Art Association and was one of the founders of <\/span>Six Directions,<\/span><\/i> the artist group of the Baltic countries<\/span>. <\/span><\/i>Together with Algirdas \u0160imk\u016bnas, Henrikas \u0160alkauskas, and other Lithuanian artists, he organized exhibitions. He worked as an art teacher.\u00a0 From his student years, Miksevicius was interested in the religious and philosophical Hindu texts and the art of India. He travelled India many times, and became a practicing Buddhism. Around 1978, Jurgis Miksevicius withdrew from public artistic life, but never stopped producing art. He painted till his last days. The artist died at home in Bensville in 2014, and his ashes are scattered in the vicinities of his home.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A collection of the artist\u2019s works gifted to Lithuania\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

Willing to preserve and to publicise the art by the unique Lithuanian-Australian artist, Miksevicius\u2019s family formed a collection of his pieces inclusive of 77 art pieces and a part of his personal archive, which in 2023 they gifted to Lithuania. This collaboration project of international significance was successfully delivered with the help of Lithuanian Council for Culture and the LNMA\u2019s long-year partners: the Lithuanian World Community, the Australian Lithuanian Community, and private supporters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The gift was a significant expansion of the collection by the Australian Lithuanian artist held by the LNMA. His first pieces reached Lithuania back in 1994 among the artwork donated to the LNMA by the Museum\u2019s well-known patron Dr Genovait\u0117 Kazokas. In 1912, the artists\u2019 daughters <\/span>Helena Miksevicius and Carolyn Leigh<\/span> handed over four other works to the collections of the then Lithuanian Art Museum. Seven years ago, the painter\u2019s daughters organized an event at Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA, where they presented the artist\u2019s life story alongside with a small-scale exhibit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A retrospective<\/span> The Worlds of Jurgis Miksevicius<\/span><\/i> includes the pieces by the painter in the LNMA collection and three works held by M.K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition will be accompanied by an educational programme and a guided walk of the exhibition, at 5 pm 8 November provided by the guardian and curator of the artist\u2019s legacy, and exhibition curator Carolyn Leigh.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition curators and coordinators: Ilona Ma\u017eeikien\u0117, Regina Urbonien\u0117, Carolyn Leigh.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition designer R\u016bta Moz\u016brait\u0117\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition architect Aust\u0117 Kulie\u0161i\u016bt\u0117-\u0160emet\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition organized by Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Partners:\u00a0 M. K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Australian Lithuanian Community, Lithuanian World Community<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporters: Australian Lithuanian Foundation, UAB Metida<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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