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Mykola Ridnyi "Lost Baggage": Location: Courtyard of Lithuanian Theater, Music and Cinema Museum

Past exhibition
17 December 2020 - 31 March 2021
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Mykola Ridnyi Lost Baggage, 2019, fiberglass with ceramic oxyde, back&white prints, lighting system Foto ©Martynas Plepys

Mykola Ridnyi Lost Baggage, 2019, fiberglass with ceramic oxyde, back&white prints, lighting system

Foto ©Martynas Plepys

Project dedicated to commemorate the Vilnius Gaon and the Jewish Year in Lithuania
MYKOLA RIDNYI

LOST BAGGAGE, 2019

 

Commissioned for the 12-th Kaunas biennial in 2019. The installation is inspired by the figure of Esther Lurie, an artist who was one of the Kaunas ghetto prisoners to survive to the Holocaust. Lurie made a series of drawings that show the characters, life conditions and streets of the Ghetto, which used to be populated by 30000 people. Some of her works have been lost, then she made new versions (replicas) after the war. According to evidences, she hid the drawings in ceramic pots and buried them in the ground to conceal them from the Nazis. Nevertheless, they were never found, as this story turned into a legend.

In his installation, Ridnyi secretes Lurie’s images into five human size ceramic pots. Ceramic is chosen as a material because of the long craft tradition that characterizes the city of Kaunas, together with its textile industry. Visitors can only spot the drawings by using small peepholes on the pots’ surfaces.

 

Principally funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture and The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
Supported by Good Will Foundation, Vilnius City Municipality and the Embassy of Israel in Lithuania
Project Partner and location: Courtyard of  Lithuanian Theater, Music and Cinema Museum, Vilniaus g. 41, Vilnius

We are grateful to Kaunas biennial and Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum for collaboration

  

Gallery Patron

Renata and Rolandas Valiūnas

 

Gallery supported by

Vilnius City Municipality

Lietuvos Rytas

Vilma Dagilienė

Romas Kinka

Art Fund

Ekskomisarų biuras 

 

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  • Photographed by Laurynas Skeisgiela

    Photographed by Laurynas Skeisgiela

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    Mykola Ridnyi Lost Baggage, 2019 Foto ©Remis Ščerbauskas

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  • Mykola Ridnyi Lost Baggage, 2019, fiberglass with ceramic oxyde, back&white prints, lighting system Foto ©Martynas Plepys

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MYKOLA RIDNYI

LOST BAGGAGE, 2019

 

Commissioned for the 12-th Kaunas biennial in 2019. The installation is inspired by the figure of Esther Lurie, an artist who was one of the Kaunas ghetto prisoners to survive to the Holocaust. Lurie made a series of drawings that show the characters, life conditions and streets of the Ghetto, which used to be populated by 30000 people. Some of her works have been lost, then she made new versions (replicas) after the war. According to evidences, she hid the drawings in ceramic pots and buried them in the ground to conceal them from the Nazis. Nevertheless, they were never found, as this story turned into a legend.

In his installation, Ridnyi secretes Lurie’s images into five human size ceramic pots. Ceramic is chosen as a material because of the long craft tradition that characterizes the city of Kaunas, together with its textile industry. Visitors can only spot the drawings by using small peepholes on the pots’ surfaces.

The images embody the dark side of Kaunas history and Jewish minority. The hidden position for private evidences of the Holocaust problematizes ideas of displacement, forgetting, removal by and from official narratives in different periods of history. The monumental shape gives to fragile and domestic objects a public and political dimension. The permanent location of the work - the Kaunas train station - underlines the dramatic idea of the baggage which traveler is not allowed to take into a journey, a baggage which can cost a life. 

 

The project was supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ukraine Institute and Kaunas municipality. The work has been realised in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts Kaunas Faculty Department of Ceramics.

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