Baroti in the gallery – “East Prussian Sky” and “Scrolls”

KADS Baroti Gallery kindly invites you on December 15. (Friday) at 6:30 p.m. to the last in 2023 an event where you can familiarize yourself with Tomas Kiaukas’ painting exhibition “Eastern Skies” and Rima Leipuvienė’s ceramics exhibition “Slinktys”, hear the musical greeting of Mindaugas Bačkaus, see Ben Šarka’s video greetings, participate in the artwork lottery and have fun in other ways.

Authors about exhibitions:

“I choose quite typical, often “postcard” images for motifs: churches, bridges, railway stations, sea or lagoon landscapes. What was and still is recognizable as the topography of Klaipėda region. Worn out? Banal? Aren’t cafes and other public places covered with postcards that have become popular in the last decade? Do they contain the real, authentic soul of the place? Is there such a thing as a “soul of a place”? And what does it say to those looking at those images, when those looking have no personal experience with those past images?

Things that are exploited too much and too often become invisible, consume themselves, lose their life… And am I not, by painting those consumed images, also contributing to their destruction? I am not given the answer to that… When I paint, I engage in topopsychography: I dematerialize objects – as buildings lose the weight of masonry, becoming the abode of the memory of consciousness, I look through their windows into that world of the past and see them, those painted houses, stations, churches, bridges, – like souls from the past , wandering and searching for their place under the eternal sky of the present. And I hope that those souls will find refuge in the light of the eyes that look at them.” /Tomas Kiauka/

“Scrolls are unexpected changes, visible and invisible movements, transformations revealed in ceramics and occurring naturally in nature and human life. Constant change, the uncontrollable flow of time, the elusiveness of the moment, these are things that excite me and to which my attention is directed. With works that reflect geological forms and natural formations, I try to reveal not only the beauty of clay, but obviously inexpressible, deeper meanings through texture marks, cracks, cracks.

I feel that in recent years, the world has undergone not only natural shifts or cycles, but also tectonic breaks… The exhibition presents works reflecting the traditions, aesthetics and technologies of Eastern ceramics from the cycles One Year (2020-2021), Other Times (2022) and new 2023 works. Sculptural ceramics will attract attention with unexpected shapes, primordiality and naturalness highlighted in fireclay material. /Rima Leipuvienė/

The exhibition at the Baroti Gallery will run until 2024. January 24