The primary one is that this: the start of Eglė’s collection of works “Cultural Flooring”, which made her well-known in Lithuania, and was awarded probably the most vital Lithuanian prize, is a room within the capital Užupi, the place there was as soon as a ritual Jewish mikva bathtub.
At present, the Užupis Artwork Incubator is working there. “I went to my colleague to borrow one thing and was shocked to see blue and yellow tiles on the wall. God, I believed, what a wonderful relationship!” – remembers Eglė.
That night time, she says, she stayed up eager regarding methods to flip the highly effective impression right into a murals. At first, he transferred the wall tiles to the canvas, then he began the ground of the room. So E. Ridikaitė’s inventive journey started with a small fragment and continues to at the present time. “I began seeing lovely flooring in every single place,” she laughs.
Shouts of archaeologists
The second coincidence is that one other flooring opened proper below the home windows of the artist’s studio. Extra exactly, they have been quickly opened by archaeologists.
In 2018, Vilnius Metropolis Corridor offered the premises of Vytė Nemunėlis Main College for the inventive actions of ten tenants by means of a young. Amongst them was E. Ridikaitė.
The academic establishment was constructed on the ruins of the Vilnius Nice Synagogue throughout the Soviet period. Since 2011, a joint group of archaeologists from Israel, the US, and Lithuania has been conducting excavations on the territory of the synagogue. In 2019, the ground of the bimah – the platform for studying the Torah – was dug up.
“At some point I hear joyful shouts – it seems that archaeologists have found the ground of the bima. They hoped to seek out them, however they did not know what they might be like, how they might look,” says E. Ridikaitė. Then she met scientists Jon Seligman and Justin Rach and requested permission to repaint them.
Since 2019, the artist has already “moved” as many as 11 flooring of the Nice Synagogue. “My grand the thought of sometime displaying them multi function massive house. It might be greatest within the sacred”, says the artist.
She got here to Vilnius to check in 1986, lived on Vokiečių Road. At the moment, Egle mightn’t have imagined that that quarter of the outdated city seemed utterly completely different a number of many years in the past – the Nice Synagogue was standing, the Synagogue Yard (shulhoif) was bustling, Vokiečių Road was far more densely furnished and inhabited.
The exhibition “Samuelis Bakas. Paris and Rome, 1956–1965” / Eglė Ridikaitė “Revelations” viewers will see two large-format works by Eglė – the ground coverings of the bimah and mikvah of the Vilnius Nice Synagogue.
Photograph by V.Ilčiuk/ Property of MO/Eglė Ridikaitė. After I noticed it, I might not sleep (Jewish Bathtub), 2013
An advance scene of respect for the previous
The painter has been creating the giant-format “cultured flooring” for greater than ten years. Making an allowance for the pure measurement, the artist recreates the Nineteenth-Twentieth centuries. The ornament of Vilnius staircases – flooring designs of parade entrances and landings. And by hanging them on the partitions, it preserves the legacy of outdated Vilnius, turning it into an actual work of recent artwork.
“By exposing her “flooring” vertically, the artist disrupts the same old logic of notion. However that is the one method their magnificence is raised from the dusty darkness to the vanguard stage of admiration, reminiscence and respect for the previous”, – that is how artwork critic Rasa Andriušytė-Žukienė responds to E. Ridikaitė’s cycle.
E. Ridikaitė reproduces the ground drawings utilizing a way she invented herself: following overlaying the canvas with pre-prepared stencils, she doesn’t paint, however sprays aerosol paints in a number of layers. It is simply superb how precisely, realistically she manages to seek out the fitting shades and textures.
Photograph by V. Ilčiuk/Eglė Ridikaitė. Viniaus Nice Synagogue bimah flooring following the rain (2020)
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In December 2016, E. Ridikaitė’s massive exhibition “You got here, you noticed, you left: cultural flooring” was opened within the “Titanikas” exhibition corridor of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA), in 2018 – within the Klaipėda Exhibition Corridor.
in 2021 on July 6, the creator’s exhibition of the painter with “cultural flooring” happened in Kyiv, within the “Cecho” gallery. Final November, a number of works of E. Ridikaitė, a visitor artist of the “Meno parko” gallery, have been proven on the modern artwork truthful “Artissima” in Turin, Italy.
Photograph by V. Ilčiuk/Eglė Ridikaitė. The ground of the mikvah (bathtub) at Vilnius Nice Synagogue (2020)
Born in 1966 in Kupiški, E. Ridikaitė has been dwelling and creating in Vilnius since 1986. She has organized 14 solo exhibitions and took part in additional than eighty group exhibitions.
In 2014, she was chosen as one of the best artist of “ArtVilnius`14” for the collection of work “Palikimas (babutas skaralas)”. In 2018, E. Ridikaitė gained the Authorities Tradition and Artwork Prize for the cycle “Cultural Grounds”, and in 2020 she was awarded the Lithuanian Nationwide Tradition and Artwork Prize for the actualization of cultural heritage in modern portray.
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2024-06-19 13:04:48
