Eglė Vertelkaitė is among the most conceptual Lithuanian Printmakers,  participant and award winner of the main Europen printmaking exhibitions

It is possible to recognise her works easily from their horizontal format: chosen motifs reverberate like echo against the edge of a picture and are repeated in another work. The line marks not the separation of form and space, but time. As if the artist was drawing a giant staff and people were notes. Vertelkaitė subtly connects ‘high’ art and domestic or even kitschy motifs: roses, hearts and glasses of wine next to characters permeated with existential concerns only emphasise the drama. It is interesting that in Vertelkaitė’s works one could often meet people well known in the art world: Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp or a sword devourer from Diane Arbus’s photographs. This exceptional company is not just popular icons: not only their images, but also ideas communicate.

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