Dominykas Sidorovas Lithuanian, b. 1993

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Dominykas Sidorovas

Dominykas Sidorovas (b. 1993, Lithuania) is a painter who obtained his MA at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2020. Sidorovas’s work is focused on everyday objects coming from common cultural or personal spaces, speculating on the ambiguity of their visual representation and meaning.

 

Dominykas Sidorovas’s creative method balances between reality and fiction, as the artist tries to place casual or even boring objects in the field of fiction, thus enabling them to gain additional contexts and meanings. After a process of drawing and redrawing, the artist starts to investigate the effects of defamiliarization. He observes visual shifts from representation to abstraction and from one particular object to another. Sidorovas deconstructs, deforms and visually cleanses the images of the objects while exploring their essence, which allows them to function not as products of mimicry, but rather as visual symbols. His reductionist approach which includes references to social and cultural contexts is complemented by an artistic research based on contemporary philosophy and the study of the field of art, providing a theoretical context for the painter’s work.

 

Dominykas Sidorovas is currently living and working in Vilnius, Lithuania. He has exhibited his works in personal and group shows at Utrecht’s HKU TUUB Gallery, Meno forma Gallery and Meno Parkas in Kaunas, Galerija VARTAI and other institutions. Sidorovas was awarded the Jonas Vienožinskis Art Prize by the Vilnius Academy of Arts Painting Department in 2015. On 2021 he won Young Painter Prize and was announce as the year's best painter in the Baltic countries. 

 

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Biography
Dominykas Sidorovas

Born in 1993 Panevėžys, Lithuania

Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania

 

EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES

2022 - Residency at AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich, Austria

2022 - Residency at Nordic Artist's Centre Dale, Norway

2018–2020 – Master of Arts in Painting at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania) 

2017 – Erasmus program, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

2014-2018 – Bachelor of Arts in Painting at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 - MIRACLE, Pamėnkalnio Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2021 – MONSTER, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2021 – Firewall, Vilnius Graphic Art Centre Gallery “Kairė-dešinė“, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2020 – Deer’s Forehead, Panevėžys Civic Art Gallery, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

2019 – Metonymy, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2019 – Part Of Speech. A Noun., ‘Mintis’ Gymnasium, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

2018 – Preparation, Panevėžys County Gabriele Petkevicaite-Bite public library, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

2018 – The insect which has settled on the novel that has been read for a year, Titanikas (Lithuania)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 - Contemporary art fair Art Cologne Köln (Germany)

2022 - Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna (Austria)

2021 - Young Painter Prize, finalists’ exhibition, Mo museum, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2021 – Where are the People?, The National Gallery of Art in Vilnius (Lithuania)

2020 - Young Painter Prize, finalists’ exhibition, Tech Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2020 -  Documentation: Time, “Titanic” exhibition space, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania)

2020 – Spectrum, VARTAI gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2018 – Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna (Austria)

2018 – Aukštaitijos dailė 2018. Memento mori, Panevėžys Art Gallery, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

2018 – Unknown, Panevėžys Art Gallery, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

2018 – Kontr-argumentas, Meno parkas gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2018 – Apmatai, Artifex gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2017 – Plenerjumas, Panemunė castle tower (Lithuania)

2017 – Compression, HKU TUUB gallery, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

2016 – WUNDERKAMERAden, Meno forma gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2016 – Kur vinukai?, Panemunė castle, Pilis (Lithuania)

2012 – Panevėžys Art School graduation show, Antras aukštas gallery, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

AWARDS/GRANTS

2015 – Vilnius Academy of Arts Justinas Vienožinskis awards

2021 - Winner of Young Painter Prize

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PUBLICATIONS

2020 – Dominykas Sidorovas (Marius Vabalas), “Daiktai brėžia mano trajektorijas, mane patį”, in: Literatūra ir menas, no. 18 (3712), 2020-10-23

ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS

2020 – “Į ‘Menininko anketos’ klausimus atsako tapytojas Dominykas Sidorovas”, in: Vilniaus galerija, 2020-08-23

2020 – Austėja Mikuckytė-Mateikienė, “Faximilinis dievas’: menininkai piktinosi vaizdų lavina ir treniravo žiūrovus nepaskęsti”, in: LRT.lt, 2020-01-18

2019 – Monika Valatkaitė, “Ir viskas susidėliojo į vietas. Dominyko Sidorovo personalinė paroda ‘Metonimija’ galerijoje ‘Vartai”, in: 7 meno dienos, no. 29 (1308), 2019-09-20

2019 – Rūta Mikšionienė, “Tapytojams pravertė ir echoskopija, ir Morzės abėcėlė”, in: lrytas.lt, 2019-09-12

2019 – Monika Valatkaitė, “Kasdienybės poetika. Interviu su Dominyku Sidorovu”, in: artnews.lt, 2019-04-29

2019 – Monika Valatkaitė, “Ir viskas susidėliojo į vietas. Dominyko Sidorovo personalinė paroda ‘Metonimija’ galerijoje ‘Vartai”, in: 7 meno dienos, no. 29 (1308), 2019-09-20

2019 – Regina Alerytė, “Interviu su Dominyku Sidorovu ir Kazimieru Brazdžiūnu”, in: VDA.lt, 2019

2019 – Monika Krikštopaitytė, “Reidas. Trumpos kelių parodų Vilniuje recenzijos”, in: 7 meno dienos, no. 7 (1286), 2019-02-15

2018 – Rasa Karvelytė, “Preparuojantis kasdienybę kūrėja”, in: Sekundė, 2018-11-30

2018 – Rasa Karvelytė, “Kontrastais ir lytėjimu atpažįstama tapyba”, in: Sekundė, 2018-07-13

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