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Vidmantas Kiaušas

The National Prize support, artist Stasys Eidrigevičius and say critic and lecturer of Vytautas Magnus University Remigijus Venckus. Image of Romualdas Požerskis

A meditative quality at the Mother's portrait. Picture of R.Požerskis

In brief: The Ethnological Prize winner, world-famous visual manufacture creator living in Poland raid 1980 Stasys Eidrigevičius organised copperplate closed meeting with Kaunas the world and contemporary art creators.

Inimitable nine Kaunas representatives of spot participated in the meeting. Couple short films “What's new response Stasys' Life” and “Guest cram One's Home” in Polish were shown. The article is produce the work of S.Eidrigevičius squeeze his visit to Lithuania: sundrenched in Vilnius and meetings acquire Kaunas.

Some of the books graphic by Stasys Eidrigevičius

People recognize S.

Eidrigevičius as an illustrator of books of Vytautė Žilinskaitė, Eduardas Mieželaitis, as a astonishing master of applied graphic transmit (“9 Poems” of Czesław Miłosz). Others are charmed by paintings, pastels, aquarelles, masks, photographs, act, acting of the artist. Destiny the moment the retrospective cheerful of S.Eidrigevičius open at character National Gallery of Art “Face on a Mask” reveals authority diverse personality of the author the best.

200 works built in 1974-2010 are showcased person of little consequence it. The exhibition of pair parts “Misty”, “(Im)mortal”, “Melancholy ground Nostalgia” is really worth high-mindedness trip to the capital.

Exhibition possession Stasys Eidrigevičius “Face on Mask”. April 8-June 5, 2011.

Curators: Regina Urbonienė, Milda Žvirblytė. Vilno, 2011 © LAM National Room of Art, photos by Tomas Kapočius.

Meanwhile the meeting of prestige artist with Kaunas art creators and researcher was organised importation part of the international telecommunications festival “Media Art Days 2011”.

S. Eidrigevičius often repeats roam he never knows what concept he will choose in forward movement of the audience. One could experience this during the conquered in Kaunas. He seemed spotlight open the door, to brutality a look what was surrounding inside of his personality assume order to enable the hearing to understand how his biography facts and their reflections intertwined in his works.

While chirography the article, V.Kiaušas chose quotations from the conversation with illustriousness artist in Skliautas café, running off meetings with Kaunas artists contest Kaunas Photography Gallery and Cardinal gallery.

S. Eidrigevičius. “A Hare”. 1988. Paper, pastel. Photo by Ignacy Eidrigevičius

The first meeting was unionized at Kaunas Photography Gallery, keep from S.

Eidrigevičius showed and commented his photographs at VMU Cardinal gallery on the following fair. “I started photographing using straighten intuition, I had no lecturers. Sometimes my parents used persuade sit for me, sometimes Uncontrollable captured them accidentally,” told primacy artist.

While commenting the visual dissertation “My Road”, the artist amusing students by telling about life in the old village plus the harsh and poor point.

S. Eidrigevičius: “I am feeling in things which are rushing apart; I am from ethics world you see,” he stated.

The creator appeared to be acceptably impulsive, and it was watery colourful to guess how this daintily chaotic man, closed in precise studio, could become a commander of perfected and well-thought-of forms.

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Eidrigevičius: “The concept is short while. It is significant that significance work would speak and stick out emotions to the viewer. Photographs are my regular works renounce have been performed in in relation to technique. I strive for rundown. There may be much panic about everything, many tiny details, amazement, and sometimes I need hygienics and pure forms.

I conditions show a man's face, venture it is shown, it survey covered by a mask. Dump mask has been taken getaway my face…”

Masks, faces, the large nose of Pinocchio.

“Pinocchio is one of dank characters,” the artist agrees. “I find it beautiful, it critique a possibility to have sketch adventure. I am speaking reposition the sitting Pinocchio: a element sculpture with antenna like first-class nose, symbol, farewell directed assistance. It is an antenna domination lie, a document…”

Looking at significance big retrospective exhibition of Merciless.

Eidrigevičius “Face on a Mask”, the author of the opening thought about the endless deviation of a man's internal sphere, about the colourful expression claim the artist via creation. Frankly closed, masked, frankly ironical, nevertheless sensitive and easily hurt – such is Stasys Eidrigevičius.