Exhibition "With Heart and Eyes. Wincenty Slendzinski (1838–1909)" at Vilnius Picture Gallery
Vilnius Picture Gallery of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) opens an exhibition With Heart and Eyes. Wincenty Sleńdziński (1838–1909). It is the first solo exhibition in Lithuania by the painter known for celebrating the mundane, composed to present his multifaceted art and his person. Four works were lent to this exhibition by TARTLE.
“At the heart of the exhibition is a creator who was destined to suffer all conceivable challenges of his time. His talent awoke early, leaving to us the unforgettable composition Old Woman Threading a Needle, however, was doomed, due to political circumstance, to smoulder in exile for long years. But even then, it took only short blasts of the wind of freedom to rekindle that creative fire so it blazed with the light brighter than before. It is a sad paradox, that once the artist gained his personal freedom he had longed for, the moirai spinning the thread of his life, tied another knot of a hard everyday life, which hampered his creative inspirations by the obligation to put bread on the table for his big family. Therefore, a life story told by his drawings and written words, by the violin strings strikes as unexceptional from the first glance only. But a viewer travelling from one room to another, starts feeling a rising tension generated by the hard and inevitable choices of a man pursuing his artistic calling. This exhibition therefore is an opportunity to discover another life story behind the Lithuanian art Golden Fund,” Aistė Bimbirytė, director of the Vilnius Picture Gallery of the LNMA places the event into context inviting to see the exhibition.
The exhibition curator Dr Jomanta Širkaitė presents Wincenty Sleńdziński as “[A]n artist of complicated fate, who dedicated his entire life to his multifaceted artistic practice. In the early 20th century already, the painter was noted as one of the art idealists: he always showed a subtle certainty with his medium, but was never after new trends, remaining loyal to realistic representation. He handled his brush with a virtuoso skill and tried it in a variety of genres, but his most powerful pieces tell stories of the everyday, reflecting its quiet beauty. The eyes of the destitute portrayed by him show his ability to see the inner person, as he looked at life with the eyes of the soul. He truly won the name of a poet of the mundane.”
Vilnius Picture Gallery of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) opens an exhibition With Heart and Eyes. Wincenty Sleńdziński (1838–1909). It is the first solo exhibition in Lithuania by the painter known for celebrating the mundane, composed to present his multifaceted art and his person. Four works were lent to this exhibition by TARTLE.
“At the heart of the exhibition is a creator who was destined to suffer all conceivable challenges of his time. His talent awoke early, leaving to us the unforgettable composition Old Woman Threading a Needle, however, was doomed, due to political circumstance, to smoulder in exile for long years. But even then, it took only short blasts of the wind of freedom to rekindle that creative fire so it blazed with the light brighter than before. It is a sad paradox, that once the artist gained his personal freedom he had longed for, the moirai spinning the thread of his life, tied another knot of a hard everyday life, which hampered his creative inspirations by the obligation to put bread on the table for his big family. Therefore, a life story told by his drawings and written words, by the violin strings strikes as unexceptional from the first glance only. But a viewer travelling from one room to another, starts feeling a rising tension generated by the hard and inevitable choices of a man pursuing his artistic calling. This exhibition therefore is an opportunity to discover another life story behind the Lithuanian art Golden Fund,” Aistė Bimbirytė, director of the Vilnius Picture Gallery of the LNMA places the event into context inviting to see the exhibition.
The exhibition curator Dr Jomanta Širkaitė presents Wincenty Sleńdziński as “[A]n artist of complicated fate, who dedicated his entire life to his multifaceted artistic practice. In the early 20th century already, the painter was noted as one of the art idealists: he always showed a subtle certainty with his medium, but was never after new trends, remaining loyal to realistic representation. He handled his brush with a virtuoso skill and tried it in a variety of genres, but his most powerful pieces tell stories of the everyday, reflecting its quiet beauty. The eyes of the destitute portrayed by him show his ability to see the inner person, as he looked at life with the eyes of the soul. He truly won the name of a poet of the mundane.”