RIMANTAS BAGDONAS CERAMICS EXHIBITION “SWIMMING”

From July 4 to 27, the exhibition of Rimantas Bagdon's ceramics "SWIMMING" is open in the Šiauliai Art Gallery.

Exhibition opening on july 4, at 5:30 p.m. Šiauliai art gallery. Visiting the exhibition during the opening is free.

Rimantas Bagdonas consistently develops the possibilities of figurative ceramic sculpture in his work. It is a complex art that combines the aesthetics of the ceramic form and glazed surface, the plasticity of the figure and the dramatic expression it creates. It is very important for Rimant to convey emotional content full of tension through the movement of the sculptures. It is a path to the viewer’s feelings and the search for dialogue. Each group of Rimant figures is a story to be told or an intriguing plot clue. The artist also organizes painting exhibitions, is a long-time art teacher, and actively participates in the annual art exhibitions of Šiauliai artists.

Swimming starts with inland waters. The foundation remains clean. It’s awkward to meet your dirty self. Inner bathing begins with purity of attitudes, attitudes, actions and thoughts. When you dive into personal waters, the outside world closes off, you remain alone with yourself. If you still feel dirty, it is not worth coming to the surface of the outside world. Cleanliness is needed there.

You have to use your swimming abilities to swim. You can swim in a circle, against the current, even downstream. You can swim faster downstream, but you have to swim against the current to show your inner strength. You see a lot of swimmers swimming by, and you keep coming face to face with yourself naked.

Not everyone wants to swim, because there is theft of water, drowning of each other, helping a drowning person to drown. But there are also those who want to take with them those who do not know how to swim, they constantly rescue those who dive too deep or swim in the wrong direction.

In addition to swimming, he likes to swim. There is no direction here, no opportunities to sink. Bathing is the pursuit of pleasure, the use of the waters of envy and greed. It’s a simple trickle with new and new waters.

– Rimantas Bagdonas

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