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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My works are
influenced by the history of art ﹠ architecture,
kitsch and industry.
Art history is my real fascination, especially old Dutch
painting with its love for details, sometimes even obsessive
precision. I pick up identifiable elements from art history and
incorporate them into my works tithing a new context, which is a
bit humorous and ironical. However, I use these elements with
much love and attention.
Architectural forms are very important in my work. Old
Vilnius architecture is an important source of inspiration. One
of the beautiful Vilnius Baroque church. I have made a series of
works with squares with this church. These works have a special
personal meaning to me , since they depict a view that is very
familiar and common to me, but on the other hand I inhabited it
with some strange personages, thus making it surrealistic,
dream-like.
A mechanical word of various industrial things( like
plumbing, pipes, taps or old oven doors) fascinates me. I have
some romantic feelings for the raw beauty of the old industry,
In my recent works I combine various mechanical forms with
precise and rich decoration in the 19th century
porcelain-decorating manner. I want the result to be a paradox
contrast, the idea that everything is relative, art-kitsch,
beauty-ugliness, reality-dreams, funny-serious, old-new. My works are
actually not comments on the decline of industry, but mostly my
personal history and my childhood memories. I like my works to be a bit surrealistic and sentimental, slightly
ironical, full of various allusions-historical, mythological,
religious, but mostly-personal.
Combining contemporary and historical, working with
over-glaze techniques in a very precise manner, the feeling like
a 19th century porcelain porcelain decorator is fascinating to me. The
technical side, the execution of the work is always important to
me. In that sense I realy feel I am a ceramist, a craftsman.
In my work I often use ready-mades. Sometimes I incorporated
found objects. I am living in a contemporary social environment,
where products of industrialization become trash very quickly. I
am happy to give some of these things a second chance and to
make someone understand how nice this trash is, when you feel
the history of things. My often-used technique is press-molding,
and my molds are often taken from readymade forms of various
things around me. Using decals is again using ready-mades. I
compose these ready-mades in their own way, thus making them
work for my own idea.
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