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沤ilvinas Kempinas: Portraits鈥揊ossils
In August 1996, Kempinas organized a plaster mask-making workshop in the center of Vilnius and held an exhibition titled Portraits-Fossils at Jutempus, an artist-run gallery. Portraits-Fossils are three-dimensional negative imprints of the face 鈥� a hybrid of the portraiture genre and death masks. However, Kempinas was interested in the very process of casting, in the project鈥檚 performative, social, and psychological aspects, providing an unusual experience for his friends in the artistic community, many of whom today are renowned Lithuanian painters, directors, sculptors, actors, and composers. Of the considerable number of masks produced, only a few subjects have kept their own images over the subsequent decades. Fortunately, the casting process was recorded on video by film director Gintas Smilga.
After 27 years, the mask workshop will be revived and new casts will be exhibited at MO Museum along with original and new video documentation by Smilga.
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In August 1996, Kempinas organized a plaster mask-making workshop in the center of Vilnius and held an exhibition titled Portraits-Fossils at Jutempus, an artist-run gallery. Portraits-Fossils are three-dimensional negative imprints of the face 鈥� a hybrid of the portraiture genre and death masks. However, Kempinas was interested in the very process of casting, in the project鈥檚 performative, social, and psychological aspects, providing an unusual experience for his friends in the artistic community, many of whom today are renowned Lithuanian painters, directors, sculptors, actors, and composers. Of the considerable number of masks produced, only a few subjects have kept their own images over the subsequent decades. Fortunately, the casting process was recorded on video by film director Gintas Smilga.
After 27 years, the mask workshop will be revived and new casts will be exhibited at MO Museum along with original and new video documentation by Smilga.
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