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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
A book as an all-embracing archetype of being is the fundamental axis of Judeo – Christian civilization surrounded by symmetric and asymmetric spirals of meaning. The metaphor of the world as an easily readable or as an enciphered text is an integral part of this tradition, so it is not surprising that the “eschatology of …
The four styles of life are like four elements, the four seasons, and the four directions. But the artist transforms this rational scheme into the highly creative pattern. “Life: to grow”. The golden seed is put into the stone vessel like into the womb of the goddess-mother or nature. The seed is nothing but the …
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