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The exhibition in a maze is a relocation of the reading room/bookstore "12:15 Reading Room", founded by the curator of this exhibition Marija Rep拧yt臈, to the M. K. 膶iurlionis National Museum of Art, both in terms of the idea and the works of art 鈥� books. Most of the books featured in the exhibition can be read, looked through and even bought in this place in Vilnius. The exhibition will try to reveal the development of artists' books in Lithuania by presenting examples of artists' books that reflect this, and to place these books in the context of international artists' books.

The exhibition includes artists鈥� books of a single copy, kept in the Graphic Arts Cabinet of the Vilnius University Library, or books with a print run of 5000 copies, such as the French artist Sophie Calle's years-long research on blindness and the blind's understanding of beauty. Books in the form of tarot cards, interactive posters, collaborative projects 鈥� in the form of magazines, newspapers or postcards 鈥� rethinking the present, the problems, the realities or the possible future scenarios. Collage books, riso printing, artistic research in a photo album, music and sound in publications by different artists, a book drawn together by an artist and his child, or publications recording clocks, fountains, or human architecture for bees.

In a maze, it is said, mingles the imagination, and to meet it means to stare at things you do not fully understand. The imagination remakes assumptions, reconfigures the status quo, connects the unconnected, and always entertains the possibility that life might be otherwise. Like Juozas Laivys鈥� book 鈥� Art Idea on the Highway A1 Vilnius - Kaunas. Lithuania 鈥� ideas for the future city or Donatas Jankauskas鈥� (Duonis) 鈥淢ar膷iurlionis鈥�, even though this work was started to create in 1999, is being shown for the first time in this particular museum, the nine books that interact and review the work of the one and only M. K. 膶iurlionis, let us reconsider the artist differently 鈥� the learned, known, or observed so many times by receiving alternative leads to imagine and reimagine together with Donatas Jankauskas, even with 膶iurlionis.