New exhibition “Voice of Lithuania through the Chilly Warfare: Lithuanian chapels on the Washington Nationwide Shrine and St. Peter’s Basilica within the Vatican” | Tradition

Washington Nationwide Shrine and St. Peter’s Basilica within the Vatican, Lithuanian chapels have been working for greater than fifty years. Šiluva St. Chapel of the Virgin Mary on the Nationwide Shrine of the Immaculate Conception It was consecrated in Washington in 1966. September 5, Mom of Mercy Chapel of St. Peter’s Basilica within the Vatican – 1970. on July 7. Right this moment, we not often take into account that the looks of those chapels within the two facilities of the Western world on the peak of the Chilly Warfare is tantamount to a miracle. At the moment, Lithuania didn’t exist on the geopolitical map of the world, Catholicism was persecuted and crushed in our nation, believers suffered restrictions and repressions.

This exhibition presents the historical past of each chapels, reveals their significance for the Lithuanian diaspora and occupied Lithuania. Particular consideration is paid to the creative contexts that allowed Lithuanian conflict refugee artists to combine into the creative lifetime of the international locations that obtained them and to manifest themselves internationally.

The story in regards to the Lithuanian chapels in Washington and the Vatican is prolonged and expanded by two further components of the exhibition. One in all them is devoted to the modernization of interwar Lithuanian ecclesiastical artwork and structure. Spiritual artwork works by nationwide artwork classics Adams Galdiks, Petros Rimša, Stasios Ušinskas and different artists are exhibited right here. The watercolors and drawings of the Lithuanian Juoz Mikėnas are juxtaposed with the works of the French Marcel-Lenoir, introduced from this artist’s museum in Monriku (Musée Marcel-Lenoir, Château de Montricoux), in France, thus displaying the affect of French artwork on Lithuanian artwork. The opposite a part of the exhibition presents the non secular artwork of Lithuanian artists who left their homeland on the finish of the Second World Warfare, primarily the primary writer of Lithuanian chapels Vytautas Kazimieros Jonyns, created in refugee camps in Germany and the USA; reveals how orders from the Church helped Lithuanian artists to combine into a brand new cultural setting and survive as an artist.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog in Lithuanian and English. There will probably be instructional occasions, excursions and lectures on the themes of the exhibition.

Curator of the exhibition and compiler of the catalog prof. Dr. (hp) Giedrė Jankevičiūtė.

Dr. contributed to the preparation of the exhibition materials. Laura Petrauskaitė.

Authors of the catalog texts: Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Laura Petrauskaitė, Marie-Ange Namy.

The opening of the exhibition will happen on the Church Heritage Museum (Šv. Mykolo St. 9, Vilnius) on June 5. 6 p.m. The occasion is free.

The subsequent tour of the exhibition with curator G. Jankevičiūta will happen on June 8, Saturday, at 3:30 p.m. Tickets will be bought on the museum field workplace or on-line „Paysera Tickets“. The exhibition will run till 2024. October 5

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