30th July – 30th August
The opening evening starts at 7 pm
Timofey Manor
Mokyklos st. 40A, Lentvaris
The silk-covered ceilings are dancing with colourful reproductions hidden behind fifty-two thousand bricks, while he assembles the walls and dismantles them again several dozen times, narrows the halls, fills the outdoor and indoor pools with water, and casts the throne. In the meantime, the landscapes, still lifes and acts trapped on the ceilings of the lilac staircase lean on each other’s edges.
Count Timofey is standing in the tower, his gaze finally reaching the peaks of the predecessor, hanging on the other side of the lake.
In the second half of the 20th century, the folk master Timofey Zhevzhikov began to build a duplicate of the Lentvaris Manor (1861–1869, architect Friedrich Gustaw von Schacht) – a 4-storey, 360-square-meter house. Zhevzhikov’s several-decades-long project included examples of reproductions of Western European paintings, decoration of walls and ceilings, brutalist-style concrete castings and vital sketches of dreams on the walls. The reality constructed by the folk master could not catch up with the author’s ambiguous visions, influenced by the change of times and values as well as coincidences. The silhouettes and shades of the building changed, and the fruit of endless enthusiasm kept growing.
Inspired by Aistė Bimbirytė-Mackevičienė’s research on Vladislav Tishkevich’s collection gathered in the early 20th century and exhibited in the antique gallery Galleria Warowland which he himself founded in Italy, a duo of Lokomotif curators opens the doors of Timofey’s Manor to the public for the first time.
Swapping the syllables of the official 19th-century Lentvaris City name, Landwarów, a neologism Warowland is born, taking on a new meaning. It is a land of unfamiliar lifestyles and fantasies, a land teeming with new ideas.
The participants of the group exhibition – visiting artists and researchers – explore the parallels of already extinct and unfinished collections.
Programme:
30.07
7 pm: Opening and presentation of the exhibition Warowland
Music:
Ulijona Odišarija
dodomundo
14.08
5 pm: Kazys Varnelis House-Museum art critic dr. Aistė Bimbirytė-Mackevičienė’s presentation “From Lentvaris to Warowland”
6:10 pm: Prof. dr. Marija Drėmaitė’s presentation “Why do people build castles of dreams?”
30.08
7 pm: Closing of the exhibition
Participants: Aistė Bimbirytė-Mackevičienė, Marija Drėmaitė, Ulijona Odišarija, Rūta Spelskytė-Liberienė, Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė, Timofey Zhevzhikov
Curator: Lokomotif
Design: Gailė Pranckūnaitė
Thanks to Snežana Raižienė, Elena Mechenbier, Monika Janulevičiūtė, Aurelija Plukė, Dovilė Stalioraitytė, Alexandra Bondarev, Auksė Podolskytė, Karolina Janulevičiūtė, Danas Aleksa and Oskaras Dainovskis for collaboration.
The project is implemented by: UAB Surikatos
The project is partially supported by: Lithuanian council for culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Trakai district municipality
Partners: VšĮ Rupertas, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Artists’ House, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Italian Republic, VšĮ Trakai Education Centre, UAB Lentvario kilimai, Loko Cafe, Six Chairs Books, Artbooks.lt, Lithuanian Union of Interdisciplinary Art Creators, Lekėčiai Women’s Club, Resin Timber, New Visions
You can visit the exhibition by prior arrangement: please contact us by phone +37062728274 or e-mail hi.lokomotif@gmail.com
