Contour Art Gallery, located in the smoke factory, promises to revive New Vilnius Culture

This new phase of Contour Art Gallery begins with the exhibition “Locals”. Artists Petras Lincevičius and Andrėja Maiburovaitė are participating in it.

P.Lincevičius explores the main object of his creation – Šilavotas – the embedded connection with his roots in various cuts. The artist preserves every detail of his surroundings, be it by microscopically examining it, by pulling back and exploding the microns on huge, brightly colored canvases painted in acrylics, created using a variety of spray paint mediums. The color relations and color of the smaller works made with oil paints are calmer. They also require a more personal relationship with the viewer, in which the artist examines the resulting artifacts in detail.

In the exhibition, by assembling the layout of the larger-format works exhibited here from small wooden models, the artist, like a child sorting toys, opens the door to his playroom to the viewer as well. The difference in scale in Peter’s work – from paintings approaching miniatures to canvases almost four meters in size – is a kind of observation of the same place, the same world, through the eyes of a child and an adult.

A. Maiburovaitė looks for motives for her work by moving away from the locality, but remains faithful to the creative medium – oil painting – as the “culprit” of the origin of her childhood town of Mažeikiai. “Some of the motifs come from a child’s perspective and the romanticization of the past, lived through the oil industry in the city. What is important to me is the stroke itself, the layering of paint, the unpredictability of colors and the sacredness that comes from the necessary reliance on the chosen pretentious material – oil.”

The titles of Peter’s works are more abstract – “Mapping the lack”, “Next episode”. In the canvases, they are reborn as specific artifacts, household relics. Andrėja’s works are named very precisely – “Coast”, “Soil”, but in the works the landscape, which remains the artist’s main connection with the house, is abstracted. It’s as if she were reviving precisely named memories, beautifying them beforehand.

Artist, associate professor, organizer of cultural projects P. Lincevičius (born in 1990) is the co-author of the mural “Nonexistent Space” at the hotel “Vytautas Mineral SPA” in Biršton, the painter of the Lithuanian film “Rūsys”, book illustrator. His works are in Abu Dhabi Art Hub, UAE; Imago Mundi – in the collection of Luciano Benetton in Italy; MO Museum in Vilnius.

A. Maiburovaitė (born in 2000) became a finalist of the Zabolis Art Prize competition this year and was invited by “Contour Art Gallery” and “Dūmų fabrikas” to participate in this exhibition as the best candidate. A young artist, a student of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, was invited to continue her master’s studies at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.