Mindaugas Lukošaitis Lithuanian, b. 1980
Not framed
His artworks demonstrate the power of vision and imagination that allows having a sharper look at topics such as history, the relevance of post-war resistance, the search for identity, and the spirit of patriotism - both in history as well as in everyday life. The artist tends to rely on the classical, academic drawing technique, where a pencil is used for shading and outlining. However, his approach to academic drawing is unique: Lukošaitis draws “his own realism”, without using models or pictures.
Another important aspect of Lukošaitis’s work is its non-historicalness. The artist draws strange uncanny pictures of isolated objects and nature-like forms, or depicts imagery of unrealised ideas. These drawings are created not to be contextualised outside themselves but to be understood as free products of creative inspiration or realisations of the sketching practice in drawing.
Exhibitions
2013 Viennafair2013 Art Fair, galerija VARTAI, Vienna
2012 11 22 - 25 Contemporary Istambul Art Fair, Galerija VARTAI, Istambul
2012 09 20-23 Viennafair 2012 Art Fair, Galerija VARTAI, Vienna
2012 03 8-11, Volta NY Art Fair, Galerija VARTAI, New York, USA
Publications
Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Drawing, publisher Galerija VARTAI, published by Sapnų sala, Vilnius, 2012