THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART IS OPENING AN EXHIBITION “KĘSTUTIS ZAPKUS. A RETROSPECTIVE OF PAINTINGS”
A comprehensive exhibition of the New York based artist Kęstutis Zapkus will be presented for the first time in Lithuania in the National Gallery of Art from 11 April to 1 June 2014.
A. Zapkus is one of the best known Lithuanian artists living in the USA with the painting practice deeply rooted in the New York school of painting. In his works the artist combines abstraction with social research; images are based on principles of musical composition and architectural structuring of space. In the early 1990s Zapkus taught at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and with the generation of his students stimulated changes in the Lithuanian art scene.
The exhibition will also present the picture Byzantium Furioso, 1992-1995, from the collection of the Lithuanian Art Foundation (VŠĮ Lietuvos dailės fondas).
A comprehensive exhibition of the New York based artist Kęstutis Zapkus will be presented for the first time in Lithuania in the National Gallery of Art from 11 April to 1 June 2014.
A. Zapkus is one of the best known Lithuanian artists living in the USA with the painting practice deeply rooted in the New York school of painting. In his works the artist combines abstraction with social research; images are based on principles of musical composition and architectural structuring of space. In the early 1990s Zapkus taught at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and with the generation of his students stimulated changes in the Lithuanian art scene.
The exhibition will also present the picture Byzantium Furioso, 1992-1995, from the collection of the Lithuanian Art Foundation (VŠĮ Lietuvos dailės fondas).