Jusionis’ and Akstinas’ exhibition “C O N T A C T”

Exhibition “C O N T A C T” by Vidmantas Jusionis and Gediminas Akstinas is open in the Boiler and Turbine Halls of the Energy and Technology Museum.

Vidmantas Jusionis:

“I exhibit my favorite format brightly colored oil canvases, suitable for the space of the Energy and Technology Museum and at the same time contrasting with the neighborhood of authentic technology. In the museum I present paintings from various periods. It’s like a mini-retrospective.

The oldest exhibited works are “Chilling Rain”, 1995, “Pink Longing”, 2005, later their motifs, construction, characters, formats are repeated in one way or another until today. The color relations change, the dominance of blue is replaced by red, yellow… My favorite characters also repeat themselves, as well as their movement in a circle or lying down…

Repetition and change is an important combination for me in this exhibition. Each painting is independent, and all together offer a common field of feeling. I hope that the exhibited works will give the viewer the freedom to perceive feelings or meanings and their own interpretations. I aim for the entirety of the exhibited paintings to create an evocative, emotionally affecting space where coexist the figures of various characters or their absence – emptiness.”

Jusionis (born in 1961) is a painter who graduated from the State Art Institute of Lithuania (now Vilnius Academy of Arts). In 1985-1987 he taught at the Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute, since 1987 he has been teaching at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, participates in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. The painter’s work is dominated by surrealistic zoomorphic motifs, sharp combinations of pure colors reminiscent of medieval stained-glass, semantic meaning of images, attention to decorative expression, boldly breaking stereotypes. The author’s works are owned by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and private collectors.

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Gediminas Akstinas:

“I am presenting two of my past works, “It Begins and Ends in Bed” and “Rat”, made in 1985-1996. One of them is from the international symposium “The Forgotten Present”, which took place in Didžioji st. 3-5, in Vilnius (currently the cafes are located there). I can’t reinterpret these works because those feelings live hidden, but they are important to me. It was an enjoyable, life-changing activity.”

Akstinas (born in 1961) is a painter, who graduated from Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute in 1986. Since 1994 he teaches at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art and since 1987 participates in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. In 1998, he held a personal exhibition in Kaunas together with Jusionis. Using his own and others’ work (handmade or factory) items, natural objects, he creates art objects and installations. The works are small or large, mostly movable, some are compositionally linked to a specific place. Their paradoxicality and conceptuality are emphasized by cleverly, unexpectedly coordinated and interpreted objects that seem to belong only to the domestic sphere. The author’s works are in the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and in private collections.

The exhibition will be on display from September 14th to December 4th.
The opening of the exhibition is on September 14th (Wednesday), 5 PM.
Admission to the opening of the exhibition is free. Visiting the exhibition on other days – after purchasing a museum visitor’s ticket.