The authors use their works to talk regarding culture and nature, reality and mystification, regarding artists and paintings, their “mediation” methods in communicating with the art audience.
What makes A. Miežio’s painting effective, attractive and let’s not be afraid of this word – popular? Looking at the canvases, you can clearly see the boundaries of colors, shadows, geometric shapes and outlines of objects. Expressive ideas run parallel, across and longitudinally in one format and guarantee unexpected plot twists. The sharp edges of the artist’s drawings emphasize the fragility of the created images. They are like a veil, a thin canvas, pulled over the eyes of the “nothing” that creates everything. At first glance, the paintings seem unserious, imbued with a “childish” style.
Flowers, drops of water, animals from exotic lands and faces of mystical characters look like masks or mock-ups made of continuous material – transparent translucent tones, graphic noise and fruity colors. Lyrical image deformations and soft painterly plasticity, broken linear perspective and projection onto a plane, decorativeness and stylization, irony and gentle grotesque. This is how the fourth dimension – time – is born from the visual chaos in the paintings.
Personal archive photo/Artist Andrius Miežis
According to the artist, “In my heart lives a child who teaches me to see beauty and miracles in everyday life, and my mind is an open, boundless cosmos, where ideas and thoughts float until they lie on the canvas.” I try to be as honest as possible with myself and my works, and in the conversation with the viewer.”
The cycle of new works by Igna Kazakevičius is called “Čiabutis”. This combination of words was born from the words “Here” and “Being”. In the word “Čiabutis” the middle syllable is stressed. While creating a universal “something”, the art critic changed not only the words, but also their essence. The very words “Here” and “Being”, the concepts “Here-Being” and “As if – being” came from the translations into Lithuanian of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, as well as from the reflections of the philosopher Arvydas Šlioger on this topic. “Ciabutis” is an everyday phenomenon in the context of the great being.
Personal archive photo/Ignas Kazakevičius. From the cycle “Ciabutis”
I. Kazakevičius briefly summarizes his artistic painting experiment: “After compressing two words with special meanings, I changed only the accent, and materialized the being through the act of painting. This required: a grammatical trick, a physically perceptible and tangible form, and an endless scale of shades. In the world of everything – beauty, goodness, lust, love and hate – there is exactly as much as the palm of the hand grasps the matter in itself at the hour of passion and death. It is then that Chiabutis is born from Here-Being.
“Ciabutis” is a cozy cocoon of sparkling ideas. There is no single Chiabuti of the same shade and shape. After all, it is inspired by the draperies of antique sculptures, the folds of the clothes of modern fashion designers and the aesthetics of modernist paintings. Each “Ciabutis” is a dose of philosophical life style and colorful design.
Personal archive photo/Art researcher Ignas Kazakevičius
Andrius Miežis is an artist. in 2002 the artist received the Kreis Lippe scholarship (Germany). He has organized 21 personal exhibitions and participated in 23 group exhibitions in Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, USA, Denmark, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Great Britain, China. The author has presented his collections at art fairs in Lithuania, Hong Kong, and Milan. In addition to painting, A. Miežis devotes a lot of time to digital creation – music and photo mixes. Since 2013 – a member of the Lithuanian Art Creators Association (LMKA).
Ignas Kazakevičius is an art critic and curator, an artist who especially appreciates non-traditional methods of creation and curation, metaphor, pop-aesthetics, remixes. Since 2001 – Member of the Union of Lithuanian Artists. Since 2005 – a member of the Lithuanian Art Creators Association (LMKA).
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2024-04-18 21:36:34