{"id":1415,"date":"2022-03-29T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.artkaunas.com\/?post_type=kaunas2022&#038;p=1415"},"modified":"2022-06-05T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T17:02:45","slug":"arunas-vaitkunas-ir-ausra-barzdukaite-vaitkuniene","status":"publish","type":"kaunas2022","link":"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/kaunas2022\/arunas-vaitkunas-ir-ausra-barzdukaite-vaitkuniene\/","title":{"rendered":"Ar\u016bnas Vaitk\u016bnas and Au\u0161ra Barzdukait\u0117-Vaitk\u016bnien\u0117"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"slider slider-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<img style='object-fit: scale-down;width: 100%;' class=\"swipe\" data-index='0' data-height='800' data-width='766' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Vaitkunas-be-pavadinimo.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Vaitkunas-be-pavadinimo.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Vaitkunas-be-pavadinimo.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>A. Vaitk\u016bnas. No name. 1994.<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<img style='object-fit: scale-down;width: 100%;' class=\"swipe\" data-index='1' data-height='784' data-width='1100' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/2.Ausra-B.Vaitkuniene-Rose-Spring-and-Ghost-2020-oil-on-canvas-200x420cm.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/2.Ausra-B.Vaitkuniene-Rose-Spring-and-Ghost-2020-oil-on-canvas-200x420cm.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/2.Ausra-B.Vaitkuniene-Rose-Spring-and-Ghost-2020-oil-on-canvas-200x420cm.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>Au\u0161ra Vaitk\u016bnien\u0117.  Rose, spring and ghost, 2020<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<img style='object-fit: scale-down;width: 100%;' class=\"swipe\" data-index='2' data-height='382' data-width='1100' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/3.-Ausra-Vaitkuniene-Wall-of-the-Silence-2019-oil-on-canvas-140x400cm.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/3.-Ausra-Vaitkuniene-Wall-of-the-Silence-2019-oil-on-canvas-140x400cm.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/3.-Ausra-Vaitkuniene-Wall-of-the-Silence-2019-oil-on-canvas-140x400cm.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>Au\u0161ra Vaitk\u016bnien\u0117. Wall of the Silence 2019, oil on canvas,  140x400cm<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<img style='object-fit: scale-down;width: 100%;' class=\"swipe\" data-index='3' data-height='702' data-width='1000' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/vaitkunas2.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/vaitkunas2.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/vaitkunas2.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>A. Vaitk\u016bnas.<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<img style='object-fit: scale-down;width: 100%;' class=\"swipe\" data-index='4' data-height='800' data-width='564' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Vaitkunas-e1654448519947.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Vaitkunas-e1654448519947.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Vaitkunas-e1654448519947.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>A. Vaitk\u016bnas.<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/05_EN-Arunas-Vaitkunas-ir-Ausra-Barzdukaite.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption><strong>Listen to the story<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ar\u016bnas Vaitk\u016bnas ir Au\u0161ra Barzdukait\u0117-Vaitk\u016bnien\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After returning from his studies to Kaunas in 1980s, Ar\u016bnas Vaitk\u016bnas chose one motif that fascinated him, the atmosphere of an old staircase, and researched it for a while in his paintings as his own identity. Travelling through the world of staircases he, probably more than anybody else, encountered unusual perspectives, intertwined handrails, expressive lines of cross-beams, mysterious play of heights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His study, where the artist produced his most famous pieces, still remains in the attic of the house in Dauk\u0161os street. Tilting our head back to the roofs of the buildings we can only dream of what else the painter might have created through his constant experimentation with colour, composition and overall structure of the painting, having not turned his back to the new arts manifesto, left to us by the Ars painters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One can feel an observant and consistent painter creating a Renaissance model and not a wild primitivism or automation in the work of Ar\u016bnas Vaitk\u016bnas, even in abstractions devoid of objects, obscure forms, shapes and scattered spots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fascinated with old masters and able to apply their painting in his own work, he seemingly could effortlessly and masterfully turn over the history of painting, like pages in a book. Sometimes very different, but easily recognisable historical details, reminiscences of rembrandtesque chiasoscuro or colouristic contracts, preferred by expressionists back in the day, would merge in such painting. Fast discovery, instant comprehension and expression with exceptional colours and strokes were so customary and unbelievable in the works of Ar\u016bnas Vaitk\u016bnas that it will not be forgotten any time soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays painter Au\u0161ra Barzdukait\u0117-Vaitk\u016bnien\u0117 is working in the study on Dauk\u0161os street. She understands it does not take long for the city to reclaim any antiquity, but still knows of one place in Benediktini\u0173 street, where an old house, used as a motif for Ar\u016bnas Vaitk\u016bnas\u2019 staircase painting, still stands. Other houses have been renovated, just like their staircases, and today one can hardly access them, however, the painter\u2019s canvases still retain the spirit of the interiors from a previous city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Au\u0161ra Vaitk\u016bnien\u0117 depicts human stories in her pieces, usually without depicting people at all. Sometimes she reconstructs a near past realistically \u2013 a walk through the city streets or her yard, occasionally adding tales of other observers to the picture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painter, trying new means of expression again and again, does serious research into optical and physical objects and manages to spread a veil of mysterious insight that right there, just around the corner, irrational things exist. This painting magic wreak havoc on the onlookers\u2019 emotions, making them get lost in their own city, in a sense of place as well as time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Au\u0161ra Vaitk\u016bnien\u0117, having lived in \u017daliakalnis since childhood, has her own places there. She\u2019s been long attracted to a former monastery with its apple-trees in \u017demai\u010di\u0173 street (museum of education during the Soviet period). After the independence the building was returned to Franciscan sisters. And Au\u0161ra still experiences overlapping memories and a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu while walking past it, it helps her ponder painting and time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ar\u016bnas Vaitk\u016bnas (1956-2005) was born and went to school in Kaunas. After graduating from Kaunas J. Naujalis Secondary School of Arts (today \u2013 Kaunas Art Gymnasium) went to study in Vilnius. Studied painting at the National Arts Institute in Vilnius (nowadays Vilnius Academy of Arts) from 1974 to 1980. Was a painting teacher at the Kaunas S. \u017dukas Technical School of Applied Fine Arts (nowadays \u2013 Kaunas University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Education). Worked as a show exhibitor at the M. K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art in 1983-1985. Was employed as a painting teacher at the Kaunas J. Naujalis Secondary School of Arts in 1985-1993. Member of Lithuanian Artists\u2019 Association from 1990. From 1993 \u2013 member of artist group \u201cAngis\u201d. Was a lecturer at the Kaunas Fine Arts Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts from 1992, associate professor from 1994, professor from 2003. Received grants from foreign art funds (Germany, Austria, USA), also an individual grant of Lithuanian State in 2001.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The works of Ar\u016bnas Vaitk\u016bnas have been acquired by the M. K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art, MO museum, Kaunas Modern Art Foundation, other private collectors in Lithuania and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Au\u0161ra Barzdukait\u0117-Vaitk\u016bnien\u0117 was born in Kaunas in 1962. Was a student at Kaunas J. Jablonskis Secondary School in 1969-1980. Studied painting at the National Arts Institute in Vilnius (nowadays Vilnius Academy of Arts) from 1980 to 1986. Takes part in exhibition in Lithuania and abroad since 1987. Member of the artist group \u201cFour\u201d in 1990-2002. Member of Lithuanian Artists\u2019 Association since 1992. 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