GLOBAL WARMING CHRISTMAS 2007

On view December 8  through January 9, 2008

Something Unexpected art gallery presents Global Warming Christmas, the second exhibition in  Nyack art  gallery by Lithuania and New York – based Lithuanian well known artists: Antanas Adomaitis, Egle Babilaite, Aurelija Cepulinskaite, Vitalis Cepkauskas, Tatjana Discenko, Kestutis Grigaliunas, Marius Liugaila,  Jurate Rekeviciute, Kristina Rupsyte,  Laisvyde Salciute,  Neringa Zukauskaite and Egle Vertelkaite.

 For this show Something Unexpected features the full range of artists works: paintings, etchings, woodcuts, collages and photography.

 Contemporary Lithuanian artists art has unique style. For artists participating in the exhibition, art are an exercise in thinking; the viewer engaged in it starts seeing environment or him/herself differently. The artists are interested in clashes between prints and different realities: images from dreams, films and art history intertwine with fragments of everyday reality. Time in works exhibited here is no less important than space, and personal experience, than historical upheavals.

Eglė Vertelkaitė is among the most conceptual Lithuanian graphic artists. 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.

The playful spirit of fluxus reigns in Kestutis Grigaliunas’s works. At the first sight Grigaliūnas‘s prints remind of pop art. However, something else than mass culture phenomena are hidden under kitsch garments. A contemporary man or woman flusters among many reflections: cinema, television, internet and photography. A graphic print becomes a great means to make all these reflections confront each other.

Laisvydė Šalčiūtė is one of the most colourful Lithuanian graphic artists both in the literal and the figurative sense. Her works are painterly not only due to many colours, but also due to the character of her touch: her lines rather remind of free painterly brush strokes than precise strokes of a chisel.

Tatjana Diščenko lives in an endless fairy tale.  Tatjana’s is  reminiscent of a Renaissance dream.  Diščenko’s world angles are as real as they used to be to old masters. Tatjana tries to capture an illusion: like that ship she has dreamed off navigating between chequered curtains. The artist travels to unknown lands, observes the landscape floating by from her boat.

Nijolė Šaltenytė can by no means be called ‘domestic’: tea drinking and flying people rather point to the spiritual and not physical community.

A similar feeling forms when looking at works by Neringa Žukauskaitė. Generalised characters appearing in their works are followed by birds and cats: a kind of intermediaries between the heavenly and earthly spheres.

She has been taking part in art exhibitions since 1996 (Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Denmark, Austria, England, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland). Took part in the The Tenth Osaka Triennial 2001, Japan and
participated in workshops in Poland, Denmark and Norway. She works with woodcuts, linocuts, monotypes, illustrates books.

The connection between fantasy and concrete details are characteristic also to Eglė Babilaitė, Jūratė Rekevičiūtė and Vitalis Čepkauskas – without them this confrontation of diverse works of art would loose some playfulness. These artists perform complex transformations of environment by not suppressing, but freeing voices hidden in things.  (By the art critic Laima Kreivytė)

Antanas Adomaitis views the world as a strange, complicated and often hostile place. He tries to reflect and study the interplay between nature and psyche, to bring for the tradition, but carry it further into the realm of the unexpected. Sometimes it is the color which leads one in and out of the maze of form. In these particular works, the color is actually creating a sense of irony.
In his mixed media paintings he uses both implied illusions, as well as the actual physical content, which helps him to create a physical and psychic phenomenon of color interaction.
 Anatanas Adomaitis is an intriguing combination of polysensory inspirations with a complexity bringing out the most diverse results attainable for a person with unstoppable energy and creativity.

Artist had many successful shows in Germany, Poland, Holland, Canada and USA.

Marius Liugaila works in different fields of colour and black-and-white graphic: books and magazines illustration, print graphic,drawing, small graphic, ex libris, etc. Artist's favourite subjects in his creation are humanity existence problems in philosophical point of view, human and nature, real world connection in the labyrinth of life, time, space and peoples mutual existence usually with pecurialmystical and surrealistic interpretations. Favourite technique of graphic arts is complicated engraving on metal zinc including use additional techniques of aquatint and mezzotint.
Marius Liugaila every year participate in principal well-known international world graphic exhibitions-competitions of print, small graphic, ex libris. Winner of different degree prizes, premiums, diploms. Hold 20 private exhibitions of graphic arts from 1984 to 2002 in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka,Nagoya), Germany (Leipzig), Lithuania (Vilnius, Utena, Panevezys, Siauliai, Klaipeda), Finland (Helsinki). Artist's creatures are exposed in  museums, galleries and private collections in Bulgaria, Holland, France,
Sweden, Finland, Poland, USA, Japan, Italy, Norway, etc.

Aurelija Cepulinskaite- photographer, she takes part in Lithuanian and abroad photo exhibitions, competitions, diferent actions and projects with other artists. Winner of different degree prizes, premiums, diploms (FIAP gold medal in Mundid Photofestival, Rovinj, Croatia, Diploma in 3^rd International Art Photography Exhibition Vallombrosa Abbey, Florence, Italy, DVF (APA) golden medal in Hertener Photosalon, Hertener, Germany Diploma in International salon of art photographs “NOVA’99”, Belgrade, Yugoslavia et ect.) Sensitive, delicate,distinguished on deep psichologism and perfectly mastered with natural play of the light works.