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Lithuania
Sculpture, Silver on Stone
Size: 2.8 W x 5.5 H x 2.8 D in
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Bonsai is a popular Japanese tradition of growing and nurturing decorative trees. Due to external circumstances and others will, the plants are transferred to a strange, artificial space. This way the tree is doomed to suffer ruthless challenges in an attempt to change its nature, not allowing to grow and unfold. Nations, just like trees, have their own times of forming, flourishing and vanishing. In history, we can find many examples when nations had grown to becoming civilizations and later on vanished or were destroyed. Many nations became bonsai. In 2018 three Baltic countries – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, commemorate the 100 th anniversary of their restoration. These are moving stories, which have similarities and differences. Whilom, Lithuania was like a gracious tree, but historical circumstances determined compulsory changes, drastic chopping, pruning, breaking. History of our nation is similar to the fate of bonsai tree: diminished, put into a small bowl, being “supervised”, “protected” and “formed” by external forces. Installation “Baltic bonsai” is created from Baltic Sea stones, found in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, incrusted with various signs made of silver. Stories and marks made by the time itself are imprinted in these stones like ridges of a tree. What destiny Lithuania could have had if the decisions of the external forces would have been different? How much of it depends on us? Can bonsai become a tree again? On the other hand, maybe every one of us is bonsai?
Sculpture:Silver on Stone
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:2.8 W x 5.5 H x 2.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Lithuania.
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Lithuania
I have staged more than 40 personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, participated in international exhibitions and contemporary art fairs in Lithuania, USA, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, South Africa, Poland and other countries. Over the years I have developed his individual and specific artistic language. Distinctive pattern, productivity, consistent courses of creative intentions determine exclusiveness in contemporary art space. In the creative process harmonises suggestion of thoughts and views, philosophical insights and precision aesthetics, links between archaic and present times, unfolds the wisdom accumulated in traditions. Home, adoration of Creator and bellowed ones are the main topics of my works. Titles are polysemantic and are closely related to topicalities of present time (moments) – (absurdity of political games, ecological dangers, loud noises made by modern media and virtual world). Fundamental ready-made objects are stones from the Baltic Sea and fieldstones. The collection of these stones is constantly being renewed and pictured in large- scale spatial installations, monumental sculptural objects, small stone and metal plastics and conceptual jewellery creations. For me stones are more than just (raw) material: they are primarily, personalised substances, highly provoking recognition of life’s mystery. Works of the artist testify the miracle of recognition, about what is true, simple, eternal.
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