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Fundamentals – spalva
The rules help watercolor, and this can be seen in the main exhibition of the 8th international watercolor biennial “Baltic Bridges. Fabula”, exhibited at the Kaunas Picture Gallery, where works by more than 50 artists from 14 countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Italy, Spain, Israel, Jordan, Romania, Germany, Sweden and others.
As you climb the stairs to the gallery’s third floor, the colorful waves of the watercolors on display, from soft, natural tones to bright, warm and exotic, flood the two gallery spaces.
Although the works presented in the exhibition differ not only in concepts, techniques, formats, but also in the visualization of ideas, choosing the forms of collage, image, object art that complement or contrast with watercolor, the basis in each work follows being the color.
The beginning of a vision
Transparent, light, ephemeral, as delicately revealed in the series of five works by Susanne Stahli (Germany), Untitled. It is evident in the works “Rauda” and “Ramybės slėnis” by Bangutis Pruolenis (Lithuania), scattered throughout the sheet of paper and without leaving limits to their whiteness, they can be fused like Sigmund Schnore (Latvia) in the composition of two works “Festive”, in which the color is a seductive mirage.
After believing in him, he has to look again for the lost color in David Alčauskis’s (Lithuania) composition “Bull’s blood red, Nida’s blue. I-IV”, in which small squares swarm that are squeezed and try to occupy the white area of the sheet. Strange and interesting creatures from Salomėja Jastrumskytė (Lithuania) from the cycle “Glyptolalia in vitro” crawl.
A style for a new world
And here the color, sensing the beginnings of the first life, begins to place a soft bed between it in Aleksas Andriuškevičius’s (Lithuania) triptych “Two Grass Teams. I-III”, and the silence that has accompanied it until now begins to let the sounds of the environment be incorporated into the composition of Janis Spalvinšas (Latvia) “Silence sound. I-IV”, giving the color more vitality, vigor.
Janis Spalvinis. „Tylos garsas. I – IV “.
Full of energy and without knowing for a moment where the place is, the color changes shape and becomes rain falling in Irina Lazdina’s (Latvia) triptych “Feeling of Rain”, which exalts the white sheet and gives the sensation of a new world, which takes on a mysterious form in the works of Vilius Šliuželis (Lithuania). “Artifacts. I-III”, and illuminates in the works of Anna Larsson-Dahlin (Sweden) “Invisible rarely noticed”, “Waiting by the river” and others. an awakened light that emerges, capturing everything around it, in the works of Voldemaras Barakauskas (Lithuania) “Capa a Capa. I – V”. Suddenly, a very beautiful world full of various life forms opens, created by Daiva Šlajiene (Lithuania).
Before proclaiming his monarchy, color momentarily breaks down into many small details, disintegrates into a mottled mottling in Elma Šturmaitė’s (Lithuania) work “Veni. Vidi. Vici” and concentrates again, incorporating images of abstract memories into the works of Anatoly Baratynsky (Israel) from the “Reminiscence” cycle. remembering what has already been and changing completely unexpectedly into what may never be: the spooky and at the same time terrifyingly realistic works of Rimvydas Mulevičius (Lithuania) “The Witch Hunt”, “The Truth Babies Tell”, ” Know yourself”.
Rimvydas Mulevičius. „Pažink pats save“
Here the journey of color does not end, on the contrary, it only begins, because color, which has changed form, returns to reality. At first – in a very fragmentary and abstract way in the triptych by Lena Johansson Fahlen (Sweden) “The tree counts. I – III”, but little by little the images become clearer – in the works of Ed Satom (Germany) “House H. I – III “, Thomas Prautsch (Germany) in the composition” Calligraphic view of the city. 6, 7, 8, 11, 14 “and even recognizable in the works of Ramunė Staškevičiūtė” Night. I – IV “.
Individual stories
In the visual narrative of color that the viewer can follow in the exhibition “Baltic Bridges. Fabula”, several authors and their works that are separate stories stand out. In the work of Elena Balsiukaitė-Brazdžiūnienė (Lithuania) “Archive. 1947-1957” memories confront the present and stop the passage of time, looking back, captivating the viewer with nostalgia and longing that the Vidmantas triptych awakens very quickly Zareka (Lithuania) “ex. I – III”, because he is being haunted by apocalyptic intuitions, which are only strengthened by the looks of the diptych “Observers. I, II” by Girmantas Rudokas (Lithuania). However, the video works by Egl (Colucci (Lithuania) “Concerto for One String” and “Boredom” stop for a moment, pressing a pause in the viewer’s thought, full of reflections of the works seen.
Before leaving the exhibition spaces, the gaze turns to Valerija Medelinskienė’s (Lithuania) softly glowing object “The Crown Road”, as if searching for a new story, several of which begin in the works of Gintautas Vaiitis (Lithuania). kt. It turns out that the stories you see in “Baltic Bridges. Fabula” don’t end even after leaving the Kaunas Picture Gallery that protects them.
WHO? VIII International Biennial of Watercolor “Baltic Bridges. Fable “.
When? runs until October 18.
When? Kaunas Image Gallery.
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