BENAS ALEJŪNAS PAINTING EXHIBITION “PROCESSES”

July 4-27 Ben Alejūnas painting exhibition "Processes" is open in Šiauliai art gallery.

Exhibition opening on Thursday, July 4, at 5:30 p.m. Visiting the exhibition during the opening is free.

Ben Alejūnas, painter from Šiauliai, born, raised, creates and lives in this city. Since 2016 Member of the Union of Lithuanian Artists. He completed his bachelor's and master's painting studies at Šiauliai University. He constantly participates in exhibitions, organizes plein airs, educations for children and adults in Šiauliai and elsewhere. Engages in pedagogical and educational activities. In the painting studio he founded, he paints and becomes a painter, and teaches it to others.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

I devote all my time crumbs, from various activities, to painting. Those crumbs, from the last five years, fell into the exhibition Processes. In everyday life, you don't notice how the years go by. And when you notice, you understand that the path of active, independent, painting has been covered for 10 years. It may be a small period of time, but it is dotted with spirals that always return to the beginning or go back and forth. These are painting processes. These are the recurring themes of the paintings, or unconsciously, overlapping each other, in appropriate stages. Only with conceptual nuances relevant at that time, new actors, characters. But loneliness, madness, death, existential problems, mistakes of historical experiences, etc. are always present in the themes of the paintings... Only from the perspective of that day.

Text accompanying the exhibition:

Very hurt. It should stop, but it doesn't... It's like getting into a vicious circle! Strangles strangles all the time. You don't want to look in the mirror because it might be too hard. And although the realization is that everything will be fine, the pain does not subside...
Sit down, smoke in the big wigwam and come to terms with yourself? Just come faster, just faster! I understood how painful it is to see off, or to be seen off, when the thoughts "go, go faster" are running through your head. I can't anymore, although I'm very afraid to wait for the moment when the bus will move!" There is no end to the vision. Such processes in mind. They only show their long noses even more persistently. And how stupid. After all, I know how madly I love that life! Madness. Eternity is the best, so why return to it? Maybe because it is necessary? This is someone's will? Is this someone's kind? The devil.

When I'm done tearing me apart from the inside
- I will be nobody.
When I do it myself
Then it will definitely be me.

Oneness is indescribable. And how can that be? After all, there is a person, almost there, almost, almost... It's a stain, a stain that doesn't wash off, rubs rubs and nothing. It just turns out that you don't need to rub the table, but yourself! His twisted soul. And that anger that doesn't even allow you to breathe. Like touching a burdock root and not realizing it... Like taking a vacation and sitting there staring blankly at the ceiling. And when you sit and only look at them, they become like you, they just act like that... It hurts. Very much. That's the reality. Like swallowing a toothpick and trying to say hello.

I'll scratch the side of my half and blink
Someone broke the moon?
Did it just go off and think about it in a doze?
It's me. It's still me.

- Benas Alejūnas

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