At 6 pm Friday, June 13, Pamario Gallery of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art invites to the opening of two new exhibitions – multilayered visual voyages between myth, history, dreams and contemporary mundane life. Public can see an exhibition of Šarūnas Leonavičius’s The Multilayered World of Being and an audiovisual narrative Preila Project by two young-generation artists Ignė Narbutaitė and Ieva Kotryna Ski.
A union of technical precision and metaphysics
The Multilayered World of Being, curated by the art theorist Algė Gudaitytė, is a retrospective of a remarkable and unique graphic artist of contemporary Lithuanian art stage, Šarūnas Leonavičius (b. 1960). On display are prints from the series created after the work by Gintaras Beresnevičius’s Lietuvių religija ir mitologija (Lithuanian Religion and Mythology), Kristijonas Donelaitis’s poem Metai (The Year), and a wide range of etchings and drawings on a variety of religious, poetic and mythological themes. According to Skaistė Marčienė, director of Pamario Gallery, Leonavičius’s prints often remind of technical drawings in terms of precision, yet they lack no metaphysical tension.
Subtle and lush in detail creative world of Šarūnas Leonavičius will make the viewers wonder at his rich visual narratives that stretch between history, mythology, religion, literature and surrealist imagination. In them, bodies and figures blend with the natural elements and ornaments, allusions to the ancient texts and contemporary visual theology also abound,” Marčienė says.
Spa-slumber-disturbing search for the Amber Room
Alongside with the classical graphic art exhibit, Pamario Gallery hosts an experimental audiovisual narrative – an exhibition of Ignė Narbutaitė and Ieva Kotryna Ski called Preila Project. This exhibition connects two time periods – childhood memories of the 1998 passionate search for the Amber Room which distracted relaxed peacefulness of the seaside resort – and contemporary landscape of the Curonian Spit, one of a melancholic silence and holiday languor of a small place.
The project was born during the 2022 residency at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (on Neringa Municipality scholarship), and was premiered in Preila in 2024. This year’s final presentation of the artwork at Pamario Gallery in Juodkrantė is a symbolic return to the point of departure. According to the curator of the exhibition Paulius Andriuškevičius, this piece is not only about myths – but also about experience, memory and the ability of a fresh look at the things already gone.
“Preila Project refers to a paradoxical moment, stuck, like a dream, in collective memory. How the 1998 search for Preila treasure is perceived by two young artists?” the curator asks. “The exhibition seeks to make an impact on the public who either live or spend their holidays on the Curonian Lagoon and to create a precedent of contemporary art in the periphery of the country.”
The exhibitions at Pamario Gallery (L. Rėzos St 3, Juodkrantė, Neringa) open at 6 pm, Friday, June 13 and will run until September 28.
Exhibition organizer Pamario Gallery of the LNMA
Supporters: Neringa Municipality, Lithuanian Council for Culture
Partners: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, residency House.
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