Paintings of Saulius Dastikas and Mantas Maziliauskas

15. Oktober 2015 - 18. Oktober 2015
19:00 -23:00 Uhr
Galerie Speckstraße

A new place, and one week of reality extension

At all times the world has been travelling, and they were travelling in the world. And always, there has been war. A war as an internal breaking point, as an internaltransformation...

A war as education, mind evolvement ... and feeling Remaking certain things, living through them, and rebirth... The two young and live painters from Lithuania come and bring to Hamburg what is important and hot for them Now. They bring in what they are immortal.

We met with the curator and painter Dagmar Rauwald in the joint international exhibition in Latvia. A friendly invitation and immediate relation with the likely event in Hamburg was born during the mutual vision and conversation through paintings.

It is not a project exhibition. The layers of the whole event will not be rearranged with designed adapted-reporting layers of often dubious quality, - potentially staying at the maximum reality and truth.

The main objective when preparing the exhibition for Hamburgis the connection. Paintings represent shapes and space between them, becoming a new meeting possible. For image, for speech... And for silence.... creating new paintings... with the clean childish eyes of the soul

For the authors, the exhibition does not start and does not end only with the gallery opening hours. The preparation, travelling, installation and opening, closing and return... Well, it is world breaking, powerful belief. After all, nothing happened yet... now when we are writing these lines... or maybe something is already happening?... How to believe it?? This must be a perfect feeling :-)

This is the Life. This is turning new wheels. A thought. In the beginning was... a thought! (Probably not a word). In these ways it becomes clear that the issues are related with rituals (cult), we could even say, religious things. This is the new religion. The action were doing NOW is the new religion. And now the wheels are turning towards Hamburg ... Looking from aside, it may seem it is all useless madness ... Or may be useful madness?? Countries, religions... Germany... Lithuania... how was it? We know something from annals, or something from archaeology.But we do not see the real rear view picture. Because it is NOW. And then it becomes interesting, who is that Phoenix that once burnt?? -

On the new wings of canvas,
flutter burning with creativity
for a big Wind,
immortal Vision is rising

You might ask: why all of this? How does it change our life? To maintain the balance between the live and functional unit (or maybe units?). It is also a seed of belief with a potential of evolving into a Seeing.

Also it is interesting to note that both painters (both genetically and poetically) find the starting points to their creativity in the ancient Prussia, and in the physical bodies of their painting summon new metaphysical spaces not complacent to time.
Saulius is telling this in his pictures more through the alloy of civilisation shadows and opening landscapes, while ritualised still-life and landscape compositions of Mantas invited to the new media of small signs and big silences.

Good luck, and see you soon!

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