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The Shamans

Contemporary Lithuanian artist Tadas Gutauskas recently presented his new sculpture series “Shamans (2023)“. He speaks in art forms that resemble the aesthetics of primitive, naive or native art. His old-fashioned, blackened antique-like bronze images are very dynamic, associatively decorative and very close to signs or logotypes. The Shamans resemble wizards converted into animals. However, they …

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The Ancestors of the Forms

The exhibition of Tadas Gutauskas’ recent sculptures ”The Ancestors of the Forms“ is quite a strange event in Lithuanian art life. It seems that it is about prehistory, about heritage, about something ancient and very old. At the same time, it speaks about our modern world, about our feelings, about our dreams and visions, about …

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Incantory Painting

MEANINGS: The Egyptian experience is probably not unfamiliar to Gutauskas’s paintings. Its signs are sometimes within the structure of visual creations, but they are not sufficiently clear to become a pretext for forceful comparisons. From one perspective, it appears that he paints visions, which bring closer the vocabulary of Egypt’s creations. Look at The Book …

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The experience of pre-experience

“All adults were children in the beginning. (Only few remember this.)”, – said Antoine de Saint Exupery during his “visit” to the exhibition of Tadas Gutauskas and Kipras Mašanauskas. This quotation came to my mind when Tadas Gutauskas mentioned that he was interested in a “pre-experienced thinking”. This could be imagined as a flow of …

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CULTURE’S SIGNS IN SPACE

The novelty of T. Gutauskas’s sculpture is especially evident within the context of Lithuania’s sculptors. In Lithuania, the plethora of 20th century sculpture went one way only – it poetized its bulk, searched for a distinct language for the form itself, and only rarely allowed the active power of space to enter the sculpture and …

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