Jonas Kalvelis. Dunes, 1973-1985
Thomas Mann Museum (Skruzdynės st. 17)
2022 05 07 – 06 30
In the pictures of Jonas Kalvelis nature is breathing with its monumental primary power, the folds, and the mounds of the sand. The depth is moving, breaking, and shivering, yet the world, frozen within the quadrangle of frame, bespeaks of a stoical tranquility, a kind of balance between light and darkness, detail, and entirety. Land remains the leading topic of his creative effort, the results of which although not too abundant are immediately stores in a viewer’s memory. The photographer gives his preference to two of the marginal forms of land’s existence: the pattern of a forest glade and the bare sand of dunes.
Regina Šulskytė. My Time
Curonian Spit History Museum (Pamario st. 53)
The works of the artist, who has been holding solo exhibitions for more than twenty years, are a coherent analysis of her personal relationship with existence. Time belongs to those phenomena that should be analysed from several angles. Above all, as a time in which, without any effort or will, you find yourself in contact with the outside world. Into which you are born and find the traces of the past left by someone else. You grow up with them, later taking some of them as your own, while others remain as a testimony to a former life. In the meantime, there emerges a personal time which expands and changes with you. But it remains long after you are gone, becoming a trace of the past for generations to come. It will have to be picked up by the newcomers or left behind as yet another reminder of the past. It's a cycle that includes everyone indiscriminately. On the one hand, this time happens irrespective of you. On the other – you are one of those who influence it, shape it and leave it the way it becomes. /../
Chia-Yun Wu
(Pamario st. 20)
"There is a border between Lithuania and Russia in Nida where I conducted an artist residency in May 2022. The concept of a border for me is abstract as I am from an island country where the border means the ocean. However, the border has divided the land here not only into two peninsulas but also two countries. I was attracted by the image of a border and wonder if there is a world without borders."
Chia-Yun Wu is a Taiwanese artist who was selected for a new Nida art residency program initiated by the Lithuanian Photographers Association.
PARALLEL EXHIBITIONS
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (Lithuania). Travel’air A-SPOT
Klaipėdos kultūrų komunikacijų centras (Didžioji Vandens g. str. 2, Klaipėda)
2022 09 16 – 2022 10 09
Excursion in the exhibition will take place September 18th, 1.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m.
The cycle "A-Spot" started in 2015, is about the phenomenon of plane spotting, and continues Mindaugas Kavaliauskas’ "travel'AIR" project exploring the human face of civil aviation. The photographs of the "A-Spot" series were created in Auckland (New Zealand), Singapore, and around the airports of St. Martin, Istanbul, Vilnius, Riga, Warsaw, Berlin, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Toulouse, Basel, Lisbon, Zurich, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and other cities.
