The cycle consists of 30 paintings, the beginning of which was an artist-diary filled in 2020. In it, the artist depicted a variety of animals that were rarely seen in their natural environment – mostly in zoos in Berlin and other large European cities. This artist-diary became the first impulse of the cycle. The cycle is created without using preliminary sketches, relying on intuition and layers intertwining on the canvas, creating a unique, unexpected play, unforeseen repetitions.
In 2021, working as a wall painting restorer in Kaunas, restoring a particularly poorly preserved 17th-century fresco, the artist’s style was formed – the small strokes on canvas, which repeated the retouching used in the restoration of wall paintings.
In the works of the Savanna cycle, the artist plays with familiar shapes and colours, depicting familiar or semi-familiar forms of savanna animals and their environment in a childlike manner, thus creating a kind of scenography in which every visitor of the gallery is invited to take a walk.
Verdenė Monika Valkiūnaitė is an Lithuanian artist of the young generation, born in 1994, living and creating in Vilnius, Lithuania. The artist studied scenography at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where she got her bachelor’s degree in 2018, and master’s degree in 2021. In 2017, she studied for half a year at dieAngewandte, Vienna. Since 2015, she has been actively participating in group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, since 2020 she has also organized five solo exhibitions. In 2023, she became a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association. The artist is engaged in scenography creation, illustration, free creativity.
The exhibition will be open until 2023.09.01.
Info:
Keret Altpere + 372 5149604
