LNDM Palanga Amber Museum presents Mantos Lesauskas’ investigations of amber matter Tradition

The exhibition presents design objects created by the creator primarily based on the creative examine of amber mining. Are assets indiscriminately topic to those that extract and use them? Are issues simply the background of human existence – created and ready for another person’s will to make them transfer, act, make them beneficial or ineffective? A newly opened exhibition presents surprising solutions to those questions. The exhibition will probably be open till August 25.

“I’m sincerely happy to have the ability to current this artwork examine, which I name the interrogation of amber matter, on the LNDM Amber Museum. Though the preliminary impulse was to discover the mentality of the periphery, it led me to amber and unexpectedly helped me discover a wholesome private relationship with it. I’ve seen that folks lack a balanced method as a result of amber is usually both deified or despised. I hope that this exhibition and the accompanying texts, which reveal the assorted tales of amber, will assist guests to revive this steadiness”, says M. Lesauskas.

Insightful Amber Interrogation

With this exhibition, as an artistic-scientific examine of amber, the artist invitations us to mirror on the relevance of the connection between the periphery and the middle within the twenty first century. Within the reveals of the exhibition, M. Lesauskas combines ambers of various geographical origin with their aesthetically associated substances: fragrant resins, minerals, latex of pure origin. Nonetheless, solely those that indulge themselves within the perceptive and delicate interrogation of amber, will the objects reveal all the colours of their spectrum.

Within the “Peripheria x Cor” exhibition, M. Lesauskas develops a dialogue with amber utilizing the tactic of questioning the fabric, which helps to maneuver away from stereotypes, reveal new angles of the fabric, and discover a foundation for deeper inventive reflection and creative searches that transcend the bounds of superficial attitudes.

The Position of Amber in Historical past: Contexts of Colonial Practices and Searches for Nationwide Identification

The works, the structure of their exposition and the exhibition area itself – the Tiškevičius Palace – are related by the thread of amber’s affect. Egyptian pharaohs, historical Greeks, Romans, medieval European, and later empires and occupation regimes not solely adorned themselves with amber, but in addition used it for political functions as a way of consolidating their standing.

As revealed by M. Lesauskas’ analysis, the restricted assets of amber elevated its worth, impressed ritual practices, however on the similar time amber was exploited by the ability machines of totalitarian ideologies. Geologically modestly outlined as fossilized resin, amber is of greater than scientific curiosity. Historic narratives, a thread of the gemstone narrative, colonial practices and searches for nationwide identification focus on amber. As a result of such a thick semantic cost, M. Lesauskas calls amber an lively materials (eng. company of issues).

Within the “Peripheria x Cor” exhibition, the artist invitations guests to mirror on the origin and extraction of the supplies from which the reveals are made, their suitability and drawback for the manufacturing of particular objects.