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Dear artists and colleagues,
We are inviting artists to participate in the new exhibition of international project “Art Today”
At the end of every year gallery “Meno Parkas” arranges international exhibitions where artists from various countries are invited to participate. These exhibitions have been held in recent years: “The Last Christmas Haiku of 20th Century” (2000), “Mysterium Magnum” (2001), “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis” (2002), “Painting Today” (2003),“Unsupportable Reality”(2004), “Postcard” (2005).
We are announcing new international event for the year 2006
Exhibition “ULTIMA RATIO”
Please find enclosed document with CONDITIONS OF ENTRY and please forward this message to those who may be interested in it.
Bilangual (Lithuanian / English) catalogue of exhibition will be published.
With best regards
Curator Virginija Vitkiene
Galerija "Meno parkas"
Rotuses a. 27
LT - 44279 Kaunas
tel/fax +370 37 337 167
LDS@kaunas.omnitel.net
www.menoparkas.lt
International exhibition
“ULTIMA RATIO” („FINAL REASON“)
Time
December 15, 2006 – January 20, 2007
Place
Lithuanian Artists’ Association’s gallery “Meno parkas”
Space
250 m2
Organizer
Lithuanian Artists’ Association’s gallery “Meno parkas” (Rotuses a. 27, LT – 44279 Kaunas, Lithuania, ph/fax: +370 37 33 71 67;
LDS@kaunas.omnitel.net www.menoparkas.lt ).
Short history of the project “Art Today”:
In the end of every year gallery “Meno parkas” organizes competitive international exhibitions. Artists from different countries – England, Germany, France, Poland, Portugal, Norway, Czech Republic, etc. – are invited to participate in it. This way gallery resumes, continues or discovers new relations with the artists from foreign countries. The catalogues are published before every exhibition.
These exhibitions attract more public; activate the aspirations and creativity of local artists. Annual international exhibition stabilizes cultural links, enriches the possibilities of new art. Every year exhibition has a new concept, different curators are invited, and new topics are created.
The project “Art Today” that has begun in the year 2000 is still being continued. The following exhibitions were organized: “The Last Christmas Haiku of the 20th century” (2000), “Mysterium Magnum” (2001), “Ars Longa Vita Brevis” (2002), “Painting Today (2003), „Unsupportable Reality“ (2004), „Postcard“ (2005).
This year we are inviting artists from all over the world to an exhibition “Ultima Ratio” (“Final Reason”) with intention to see attentively into surface of artwork and to explore a conceptual meaning of materiality of art piece.
Conception of the exhibition
ULTIMA RATIO
„Effects are not descriptive but depend upon the cumulative meaning of the materials“, - said German artist Joseph Beuys in the eight decade of the 20th century. Affirming that that the spirit of art lies in the materials which are choosing for creation J. Beuys had what to lean on. M. Duchamp took a good ticking-off to the aesthetically spoiled public half a century ago, exposing urinal in exhibition space; after a while sarcastic creators of assemblages, “merz art” exponents had used ready-mades or just refuses, with the intention to awake public from the stereotype thinking about creation and it's purpose or they just took pleasure in a confusion rising in art showrooms – though any spurt of "critical thinking". While J. Beuys picked stuff (felt, grease, honey and others) inseparable from his own experience (survival after bad injures in the Second World War), in this way he had given an existential meaning to substance (materiality) of art. Beuys joined in conceptualists' cherished idea – questioning of the nature of art. He left conception, which had been flourishing in the Western culture for many centuries, in which the art is like watchable object. J. Beuys has unclosed to a new grasp, what put forward to look to the work of art like to thinkable or perceptable object, which is needed meditation.
Value criterions of the work of art have been changing continually since Antiquity, but not very radically. Aesthetics, beauty, representation, composition, unity, clear purport, shape, color and line – the Western artists has been concerning by this for all ages. Even in a lot of manifestos in the art of modernism these categories were important. Though much of them had been contravening (like the "true" line, shape and color), however with the view of visual effect and individual style. However conceptual use of materiality has become one of the main implement in art between the end of 20th and the beginning of 21th centuries. Only in latter decades the artists could talk about intuitive language of materiality, which prompts viewers to integrate into wonder of purport’s birth.
In the exhibition "ULTIMA RATIO" (Latin: final reason) conceptual oratory of materials is named like final reason, like very delicate artistic speech, which can help to undeceive the art object with reference to individual, cultural, national, historical experience or a combination of all these experiences.
Curator Virginija Vitkiene
Conditions for participants:
Till 15th of August, 2006 we are waiting for application form, which consist of:
1. An illustration(s) of artwork(s). It will be used in catalogue of exhibition, so, please, send a digital photo and keep good quality (not less 300 dpi, CMYK, RGB colour).
1.1. You may apply with all genres of contemporary art: painting, print, textile, sculpture, object, installation, video, photography, etc.
1.2. Every artist can apply with no more than three artworks.
2. Entry Form (which you may find bellow or in a website of our gallery
www.menoparkas.lt)
3. Artistic biography (Curriculum Vitae).
Other conditions:
• The results of jury commission will be sent to all applicants by e-mail till 30th of September, 2006.
• Selected artworks should be sent to gallery till 15th of November, 2006. Sending expenses pays a participant.
• Two catalogues of exhibition will be sent to every participant after an opening of exhibition. Sending expenses will be paid by the gallery.
• The expenses of returning of artworks will be paid by the gallery „Meno parkas“.
• There is no application fee.
• Participation fee for selected artists is 50, - EURO per person (not per artwork).
• Application form: illustrations, Entry Form and Curriculum Vitae you may send by e-mail address:
lds@kaunas.omnitel.net
Or mail address:
ULTIMA RATIO
Galerija “Meno parkas”
Rotuses a. 27
LT-44279, Kaunas
Lithuania
• Information about exhibition, as well as Entry Form you can find on our website:
www.menoparkas.lt
Contact persons:
Curator of “ULTIMA RATIO” Virginija Vitkiene.
Curator of the gallery Kristina Budryte.
Director of the gallery Arvydas Zalpys.
Tel.: +370 37 33 71 66
Tel/fax.: + 370 37 33 71 67
LDS@kaunas.omnitel.net
www.menoparkas.lt
International exhibition
“ULTIMA RATIO” („FINAL REASON“)
ENTRY FORM
I. About artist:
Name, Surname:
Address:
Telephone:
E-mail:
Date of Birth:
II. About artwork:
Title:
Technique, material:
Size:
Year of origin:
Selling price (if artwork is for sell):
III. About concept:
(It is necessary to answer questions bellow; thoughts may be used in the catalogue of exhibition)
1. Your artistic statement (one-two sentences):
2. Importance of the materiality (substance) in your creative experience (wider):
3. Explanation of the concept of artwork(s) which you offer to “ULTIMA RATIO” (exhaustively):
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