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Tartle’s fourth exhibition featured perhaps the least publicized in 1945-1990. The stage of the history of Lithuanian art. This period is distinguished by the attempts of artists to adapt or circumvent the demands of the Soviet authorities on art.
“The desire to look back at Lithuanian art during the Soviet occupation arose naturally, because we have already organized exhibitions on the 19th century. and interwar art. The exhibition talks about Soviet oppression, the conformist or rebellious response to it, delves into both micro-stories and broader phenomena. We want to reveal that the art of this period is not just a collective farm or a church without crosses, but also a continuation of the interwar art school while trying to embrace Western fashion as well, ”said Jurgita Semenauskienė, director of Tartle.
The collector Rolandas Valiūnas, founder of the Art Cognition Center, also highlights the importance of historical memory.
“Some generations have seen and even experienced this period, but for people in the independence period, especially the young, it is like an unknown land. A look through the prism of art allows us to reevaluate the lived stage of oppression. With works of painting, sculpture, graphics and glass, the exhibition reviews not only the aesthetic side of art, but also the peculiarities of the cultural and social context of a difficult period for Lithuania. It is true that the focus of the exhibition is not only on the Soviet era and the restrictions related to creative freedom. The narrative of the exhibition also reveals what happened to the Lithuanian artists who went to the West and their work ”, R. Valiūnas presented the exhibition.
The exhibition of the exhibition is divided into five segments. First, visitors can take a look at works from the 1960s that intertwine socialist content and national form; the second part presents the work of political warming (6-7 decades of the 20th century), which returns to modernism; the third speaks of a confrontation with socialist realism in the seventh-tenth decades. In art; the fourth is dedicated to Lithuanian diaspora artists, the fifth to the works of Litvak.
The curators of the exhibition Dovilė Barcytė and Ieva Burbaitė selected a total of 80 works, whose authors are associated with the 20th century. the second half of the Gold Fund of Lithuanian Art.
The works of Silvestras Džiaukštas, Vincentas Gečas, Antanas Gudaitis, Vincas Kisarauskas, Leopoldas Surgailis, Stasys Ušinskas, Kazė Zimblytė and other artists are exhibited at the Art Cognition Center. The works of Emigrants and Litvaks are presented by the works of Arbit Blatas, Pranas Domšaitis, Jokūbas Lipšics, Jonas Rimša, Elena Urbaitytė-Urbaitis, Kazys Varnelis, Kazimieras Žoromskis.
Registration for post-show tours will begin this year. subway. September 14, the exhibition will be open until May next year.
Tartle is one of the largest and most famous private collections in Lithuania, collecting works of fine and applied art, maps, ancient prints, and various historical artifacts (the oldest commemorating the pagan era). Currently, the collection consists of around 7 thousand. objects, most of them – the cultural and historical heritage of Lithuania scattered around the world and returned to Lithuania. The collections are opened and publicized by Tartle to make the collection available to the public. In the gallery since its opening in 2018, he has already visited more than 11 thousand. guests.
