28/10 – 10/11
2015
Public Artist Talk: Monday 9
November 2015, 7pm (doors open at 6.30)
Lithuanian Embassy, Lithuania
House, 2 Bessborough Gardens, London SW1V 2JE.
RSVP: rita.valiukonyte@urm.lt
Vanja
Contemporary and AV17 Gallery are excited to announce a two-week research and artist residency
with Lithuanian artist Žilvinas Landzbergas at Creekside Artist Studios in
Bermondsey, London. This is the third appearance of Lanzbergas in the UK after
his solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford (2005) and presentation of his work at
Frieze Art Fair (2009).
Landzbergas in
his big scale sculpture installations uses material, colour and light, as well
as objects, which all together create symbolic and critical references to the
social surroundings usually intertwined with reflections on his personal
experience. During his intensive two-week stay at Creekside Artist Studios,
using the rich environment that London has to offer and taking inspiration from
the city’s diverse music, fashion and theater scene, the artist will create a
complex sculptural composition which will be both reflection of the stay and
the development of the long- standing work process.
In the
previous installations the artist often tended to create a relationship with
the immediate space and past and current time. The separate elements in these
works are bind together by associations and the logic of fairy tales. Of no less
importance among the objects are the drawings that construct meta-narratives.
They deal thoroughly with research and reflection upon the selected object and
theme, which finally assume the shape of independent artworks. Using ordinary
visual means, colour and line, Landzbergas divides playfully a seamless space
into closed territories with strict boundaries. The new installation work will
embody the same idea and design logic and will include hand made wall paper
patterns, inspired by different floral, psychedelic and classical
ornament aesthetics, various masks and a small scale building model.
About the
artist:
Žilvinas
Landzbergas was born in 1979 in Kaunas. He currently lives and works in
Vilnius. In 2004, he graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Vilnius
Academy of Art. In 2001, he studied for a semester at the Faculty of Arts at
the University of Plymouth. From 2005 to 2007, he spent two years on the De
Ateliers postgraduate artist’s residency in Amsterdam. In 2008, he received the
main award of the modern and contemporary art publisher Thieme Art.
About
Creekside Artist Studios:
Creekside Artists is an
artist-run co-operative established in the year 2000. The Studio provides affordable studio space for artists working in all
disciplines in Bermondsey, Southeast London. The co-operative actively promotes
artist by organising Open Studio exhibitions.
The
collaboration:
The residency
is part of an ongoing collaboration programme between AV17 Gallery (Vilnius,
Lithuania) and the UK based online art gallery Vanja Contemporary, supported by
the Lithuanian Embassy in London and the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
The
collaboration programme started in May 2015 with the photography exhibition
‘(De)Construct’ in Vilnius showing works of the two London based artists Edurne
Aginaga and Pietro Catarinella.
(AV17) GALLERY was established in
February 2011 and is the only gallery in Lithuania, which concentrates its
activity on both, conceptual visual arts and contemporary jewellery. Monthly
changing contemporary art exhibitions present young local and foreign
artists. This is the third international collaboration project organized
by (AV17) gallery, where foreign artists have the opportunity to exhibit their
art in Lithuania, and contemporary Lithuanian artists are presented in
different places of Europe. Previous projects took place in Milan and Bologna.
