Parodos
VITA OPOLSKYTĖ AND KAZIMIERAS BRAZDŽIŪNAS‘ EXHIBITION „X / Y“
Vita Opolskytė and Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas‘ exhibition „X / Y“ will be opened at the Exhibition Hall of Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre (KCCC) (Didžioji Vandens st. 2, Klaipėda) from the 9th of April, 2021, Friday, 4 pm.
This exhibition presents two artists speaking different artistic languages, sometimes very far apart from each other and sometimes intersecting at certain points. Vita‘s portrayed intimate and personal domestic motifs, playful coloured relationships, smooth stroke, almost childish drawings here are mixed with Kazimieras‘ callous, impersonal stroke, motifs of the nihilistic and alienated world that declare emptiness. At the same time, both authors‘ works could be interpreted as a reflection of the visuality of modern culture, reflecting the dispersed, heterogeneous flow of images and commenting on the urgent problems of the modern world, its pictures and images. The unfolding story of both creators analyzes topics of faith / disbelief, sexuality / unpleasantness, love / hate, certainty / emptiness, commonality / alienation, and more. The created interior model of the exhibition raises the question of the coexistence of visible and invisible reality and becomes a research of the relationship between the work of art, artist and the viewer as well as the epiphany of the turning world.
Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas
‘What I portray is like a wish to show that a daily routine is not simple, and even the greatest inner drama can be hidden in everyday life,‘ says Vita Opolskytė. Extremely intimate and personal fragments of life, as if they were snatched out of everyday life, shown in her paintings, in the general exposition become references or prompts to a possibly happening story. Paintings, created on a collage basis, duplicated through personal experience with other stories, cultural signs or myths, evoke universal experiences for the viewer. In the author’s works, the exploration of the environment on the content plane also moves into form – the works are created not only using oil paints, but also with the means used in her household, thus bringing everyday life and routine also into the intimate visual sphere.
Vita Opolskyte „I have Nothing to wear (constantly)“,
oil, aerosol painting on canvas,
210×180 cm, 2019
Widely used motifs of icons of culture, religion or the modern world, which the author recreates to another, new life by resuscitating them on the canvas, dominate in the depersonalized works of Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas. He paints the paintings with a depersonalized touch of spray paint, creating an aerosol sfumato that is closer to nowaday life. ‘It is no coincidence that I choose aerosol paints. I construct the show as if through a fog by spraying a paint mist with aerosol paints. I decided to paint what is invisible, what no longer exists behind the representative image, the fading historiographical fog,’ says the artist. In this way, a mirage of the cultural world, a hallucination created only by sprayed coloured dust and limited by an invisible, only imaginary silhouette, is found in Kazimieras’ canvases.
Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas „Izabel“
About the authors
Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas (born in 1991, Kaunas) is a painter, curator and reviewer. In 2018, he was granted the Master’s degree at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 2018 – a member of LATGA. In 2020, he was granted the Status of Art Creator. Since 2012, he has been actively curating and participating in group exhibitions, art projects, plein airs, competitions; has organized personal exhibitions. In 2018, he founded the ‘Kontr-Argumentas’ art platform for young Lithuanian painters. The author’s articles are published in “Literature and Art” (lith.: „Literatūra ir menas“), under the heading “Point of View” (lith.: „Požiūrio taškas”). The creative work is presented in the album “# 30. New Lithuanian Painting” (Artseria, 2019). In 2020, a LTKT (Lithuanian Council for Culture) individual scholarship was awarded to the artist.
Vita Opolskytė (born in 1992, Vilnius) – painter, curator, author of articles. She studied painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and The Karel de Grote University of applied sciences and arts in Belgium. In 2017, she was granted the Master’s degree at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 2014, she actively participates in group exhibitions, art projects, international art fairs, educational events. She is the finalist of the „Young Painter’s Prize“ (lith.: „Jaunojo tapytojo prizas“) competition and a second place winner (2015 and 2016). In 2018 – 2020, a LTKT individual scholarship was awarded to her. She has organized personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. In 2018, she founded the ‘Kontr-Argumentas’ art platform for young Lithuanian painters. Since 2018 – a member of LATGA. She was granted the Status of Art Creator. Works at Justinas Vienožinskis Art School in Vilnius, teaches at the Painting Department of Vilnius Academy of Arts. The artist is represented by ‘The Rooster Gallery’.
Vita Opolskyte „K“, oil on canvas,
20×15 cm, 2020
The exhibition will be open until the 2nd of May, 2021.
Working hours of KCCC Exhibition Hall (Didžioji Vandens st. 2, Klaipėda): Wednesday – Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm. (Closed during public holidays).
Due to the quarantine restrictions, it is necessary for the visitors of the KCCC Exhibition Hall to comply with certain requirements: to purchase tickets only online at tiketa.lt or by paying by a bankcard at the cash desk of the Exhibition Hall. Persons over the age of 6 must wear mouth and nose protection equipment and disinfect their hands. A distance of 2 meters must be observed in the exhibition halls. Visitors are admitted in groups of no more than two people (this restriction does not apply to families).