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Antanas Sutkus "Mundane Archives. 1959 - 1993 |
2003.12.01 - 2004.01.17
Prospekto galerija (Gedimino pr. 43)
Prospekto gallery presents Antanas Sutkus photography collection from the period of early seventies and eighties.
In 2001-2002 the photographer Antanas Sutkus was awarded with the grant of Hasselblad foundation.
The scholarship enabled the artist to start an extensive research of his personal archives. Most of the pictures presented at the exhibition are printed for the first time. The soviet regime did not accept the photographs that depicted mundane therefore the pictures could not be exhibited at the time.
As curator of the exhibition states in the catalogue, "A journey through the presented photographs by Antanas Sutkus starts somewhere in the fifties and softly dissipates at the crossroads of Perestroika and Sąjūdis. There are several ways of traveling. You can observe the photographer's angle, or take a closer look at Lithuania of that time. You can also dissect every shot adding to it your own story. Those who know well the oeuvre of Antanas Sutkus could find these photos rather unexpected. The photographer's angle seems to be poorly balanced - most photos lack the usual symmetry and harmony, some shots seem to be taken at random, they even remind of the high-speed automatic camera, when, heedless of composition, one hastens to capture the ever-changing reality. But there is nothing accidental in A.Sutkus' photographs. From the first sight hasty angles tell much about the once enjoyed habits of looking. The perspective breaks when his camera's gaze is turned from the face of some dear person towards a road that disappears at the horizon. Sometimes a plot line is deliberately cut off, and emptiness comfortably settles in the larger part of a shot. Energetic movements of his camera and finger that has as if accidentally pushed the shutter make the photos vibrate with life. The captured fragment of daily life is cracking with vitality!"
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