From 11th August to 2nd September Pamėnkalnis gallery (1 Pamėnkalnio St, Vilnius) features a contemporary painting exhibition “Art & Response / Ability”.
The idea for the project was inspired by the American poet Robert Duncan’s (1919-1988) thoughts on responsibility: “Responsibility is to keep / The ability to respond”. Duncan’s thoughts suggest a version that an artist’s responsibility is to try and achieve an artistic reaction to their surroundings and create a relationship between the artist, the work and the viewer. The curators of the exhibition are inviting you to rethink responsibility as not necessarily a moral or social category, but as space for conversation in the international artists and art lovers’ community. The authors with their works are not trying to shape the viewer’s perspective or to give well defined answers. “The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world”, – the organizers cite the words of Ezra Pound, appealing to the critical thinking and powers of imagination of the audience.
The artists presented in the exhibition are eleven artists from the Baltic countries: Kristians Brekte (LV), Jonas Gasiūnas, Helēna Heinrihsone (LV), Ieva Iltnere (LV), Toomas Kuusing (EE), Laurentsius (EE), Linas Liandzbergis, Vilmantas Marcinkevičius, Aleksejs Naumovs (LV), Kaido Ole (EE), Eglė Ulčickaitė.
Exhibition curators – Raimonds Kalējs, Uldis Pētersons, Linas Liandzbergis.
This is the second exhibition in the international collaboration and cultural exchange project “Art & Response / Ability“, that the Artists’ Association Gallery is developing together with Kuldiga Artists Residence (Latvia), Valand Art Academy (Sweden) and other partners. In July Pamėnkalnio Gallery presented the first exhibition “30 of 30: Art of Independent Latvia“, and in August in the same place another exhibition is planned – “YOUNG Art & Response / Ability“, which will present works created by international art students that attended Kuldiga Summer School.
The project is in part supported by Lithuanian Culture Council, Nordic Culture Point and Lithuanian Artists Association.
Kristians Brekte, Monday, 2012
Jonas Gasiūnas, Easter Morning, 2012
Eglė Ulčickaitė, Krivių gatvė 54-3, 2015
Eglė Ulčickaitė, Curator’s Talk, 2015
Ieva Iltnere, The Second Birthday, 2015; Cemetary, 2015
Linas Liandzbergis, Three Limons. Three Kings, 2011
Art & Response / Ability, exhibition view, Pamėnkalnis gallery, 2015
Kristians Brekte, Eat Shit, 2015 (left); Laurentsius, Dead Christ or Love, 2013 (right)
Laurentsius, Dead Christ or Love, 2013
Laurentsius, Fuckin’ Hitchcock, 2014
Toomas Kuusing, The School of Neanderthal’s Cave, 2015; Porridge Mountains, 2014
Toomas Kuusing, Porridge Mountains, 2014
Art & Response / Ability, exhibition view, Pamėnkalnis gallery, 2015
Helena Heinrihsone, Basic Colours, 2007
Vilmantas Marcinkevičius, A Boy in the Tent, 2012
Aleksej Naumovs, The Wall of China, 2009
Kaido Ole, Freak with a Book, 2014
Kaido Ole, Freak with a Book, 2014
Photographs by Linas Liandzbergis