2024 December 19 - 2025 January 18 The art exhibition of Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis will be held at the Šiauliai Art Gallery "The Manifestation of Fear".
Exhibition opens in 2024 December 19, 5:30 p.m. at Šiauliai art gallery. During the opening of the exhibition, admission is free.
This exhibition presents early and recent works of Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis. Next to the well-known drawings and silkscreens of the 1980s, never-before-seen graphics, drawings and objects are exhibited. This exhibition is a retrospective look at the author's own work.
The exposition consists of three parts. This is the 20th century. The early works that became an integral part of the history of Lithuanian art in the second half of the 20th century - the ink drawings and screen prints of the 1980s, or rather their replicas, are extremely rarely shown. Vilutis presents these works in an emphatically effective way - the works are enlarged by digital printing, rich acrylic strokes applied to the old drawing highlight the expression of the works.
The expressive manner of the early period is also repeated in the latest ink drawings. In them, unlike the early ones, human figures are replaced by beasts of an indescribable nature, human-animal hybrids are tightly squeezed into the sheet - witnesses of the identity of human and animal nature, as read by the artist in the Holy Scriptures. The granite sculpture "Man" (2014) carved by Vilutis himself is exhibited next to it.
The third part of the exhibition presents the most recent works created in 2021-2023. in collaboration with fragrance creators Smells Like Spells. On the initiative of the founders of this brand, handmade porcelain containers for scented candles were decorated with artist's drawings. The series of porcelain objects, which have already managed to spread in private collections in Lithuania and abroad, well reflect the diversity and universality of Vilutis' work. In these works, the easily recognizable bright-colored vulita style and the vulita concept of beauty, formed in the 1990s and 100s, are revealed.
Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis (b. 1944) - graphic artist, painter, sculptor, writer. 1965-1970 He studied graphics at the Art Institute. 1989-2007 taught at the Department of Graphics of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (professor since 2006). Since 1971 participates in exhibitions. in 2004 awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art, 2024 - Knight's Cross of the Gediminas Order. Wrote three books of essays "Cake" (2009), "Soup" (2014) and "Intelligence" (2024), which he illustrated himself.
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