Antanas Gudaitis: Compositions
This exhibition is important for several reasons: it is a presentation and an invitation to cooperate with the Antanas Gudaitis Foundation, which takes care of the artist鈥檚 creative legacy and its dissemination. It is also special because no major exhibition of the artist has been held for at least several decades. The latest retrospective exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the artist鈥檚 birth, 鈥濴iberation鈥� (I拧silaisvinimas), was held at the Lithuanian Art Museum twenty-one year ago (curated by Jolita Mulevi膷i奴t臈 and Lolita Jablonskien臈).
The new exhibition 鈥濩ompositions鈥� reveals the most vibrant creative period of Antanas Gudaitis, highly appreciated by himself, which began around 1959 and lasted until he died in 1989.
Antanas Gudaitis is a 20th-century Lithuanian artist with a complicated destiny, who experienced the full burden of historical cataclysms and trials that the Lithuanian nation faced. He was born in 1904, when Lithuania was still part of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and lived through two world wars, a short period of the independent Republic of Lithuania, German and Soviet occupations, and oppression. He did not live to see the restoration of Lithuanian statehood. The exhibition features Algimantas Kun膷ius鈥� photography and archival 16 mm film footage, which captures not only Antanas Gudaitis himself, but also his surroundings 鈥� his home, his workshop, the Vilnius Academy of Arts, the Vilnius artists鈥� workshops, the cultural environment of the time, and his relatives and best friends.
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This exhibition is important for several reasons: it is a presentation and an invitation to cooperate with the Antanas Gudaitis Foundation, which takes care of the artist鈥檚 creative legacy and its dissemination. It is also special because no major exhibition of the artist has been held for at least several decades. The latest retrospective exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the artist鈥檚 birth, 鈥濴iberation鈥� (I拧silaisvinimas), was held at the Lithuanian Art Museum twenty-one year ago (curated by Jolita Mulevi膷i奴t臈 and Lolita Jablonskien臈).
The new exhibition 鈥濩ompositions鈥� reveals the most vibrant creative period of Antanas Gudaitis, highly appreciated by himself, which began around 1959 and lasted until he died in 1989.
Antanas Gudaitis is a 20th-century Lithuanian artist with a complicated destiny, who experienced the full burden of historical cataclysms and trials that the Lithuanian nation faced. He was born in 1904, when Lithuania was still part of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and lived through two world wars, a short period of the independent Republic of Lithuania, German and Soviet occupations, and oppression. He did not live to see the restoration of Lithuanian statehood. The exhibition features Algimantas Kun膷ius鈥� photography and archival 16 mm film footage, which captures not only Antanas Gudaitis himself, but also his surroundings 鈥� his home, his workshop, the Vilnius Academy of Arts, the Vilnius artists鈥� workshops, the cultural environment of the time, and his relatives and best friends.
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