Donata Minderytė Lithuanian, b. 1991
Penumbra, 2024
drobė, aliejus / oil on canvas
140 x 105 cm
55 x 41 1/2 in
55 x 41 1/2 in
€ 3,500.00
Penumbra, 2024. Oil on canvas, 140x105. The word penumbra itself is derived from Latin (paene "almost, nearly") and umbra (shadow), namely the partial eclipse of a light source/sun. Penumbra is a partial illumination, the title refers to the figurative problem addressed in the painting, and at the same time, metaphorically, it can symbolise some sort of turn towards the light, a hopeful look at the future, the world, because umbra is the dark side of the shadow, which the light does not reach, and penumbra is the light side of the shadow. In other words, the painting explores the transition state between light and darkness, which could also be described as "dawn". That moment when it is still dark, the sun is below the horizon, but the sky above the horizon is already beginning to glow.
Donata Minderytė (b. 1991, Lithuania) is an artist currently living and working in Vilnius. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, obtaining an MA in 2016. Using the concept of visual translation, Minderytė analyzes significant changes in an image as it is transferred from one medium to another. Donata Minderytė has held solo exhibitions at the Vartai Gallery and Gallery Meno Niša in Vilnius and participated in multiple group shows in Lithuania, Austria and the UK. She is also enrolled in an Art PhD programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her works have been included in various museum collections, such as Kiasma (Helsinki), MOCAK (Kraków), the Noewe Foundation (Vilnius), and Mo Museum (Vilnius).
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