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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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