{"id":1426,"date":"2022-03-29T01:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.artkaunas.com\/?post_type=kaunas2022&#038;p=1426"},"modified":"2022-06-05T20:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T17:08:51","slug":"sanciu-kareivines-vieta-dailininkams-laima-drazdauskaite","status":"publish","type":"kaunas2022","link":"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/kaunas2022\/sanciu-kareivines-vieta-dailininkams-laima-drazdauskaite\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0160an\u010diai Barracks \u2013 an interesting place for painters. Works of Laima Drazdauskait\u0117"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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='1050' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Drazdauskaite.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Drazdauskaite.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Drazdauskaite.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>Evening.<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/14-EN-Drazdauskaite.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption><strong>Listen to the story<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0160an\u010diai Barracks \u2013 an interesting place for painters. Creations of Laima Drazdauskait\u0117.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This block is most often referred to as the \u0160an\u010diai Barracks, due to the typical red brick buildings, erected back in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. The place, nicknamed \u2018military borough\u2019, is quite clear, rectangular plan, buildings following each other in a clear order, just like in the military. Paradoxically, eventually a lot of Kaunas\u2019 painters settled here, setting up their workshops on a block with such a militaristic history. Some locals have even renamed it the \u2018painter borough\u2019 already. Painters Au\u0161ra Andziulyt\u0117, Elena Balsiukait\u0117, Pranas Griu\u0161ys, sculptor Evaldas Pauza and other artists have their workshops established here. Is it likely that someone reading this text knows one of the painters who lives and creates in the \u0160an\u010diai Barracks or maybe even counts themselves among them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Describing them all would take a while, therefore, this time, let\u2019s meet Lithuanian painting classic Laima Drazdauskait\u0117, working nearby in her workshop. Nobody who knows the paintings of Laima Drazdauskait\u0117 could say that her primary creative space is the block of \u0160an\u010diai Barracks. Her paintings are not realistic landscapes of a city quarter with easily recognisable places. Quite the opposite \u2013 whirlpools, latitudes and whirlwinds of the misty outskirts of a forest swallow the urban and interior elements in her paintings, they transform into abstract hardly identifiable blots. The painter finds her own time and space in a real city, therefore, they become quite hard to trace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Painter Drazdauskait\u0117 enjoys making things talk. Being a visual poet, she is able to make the surface of an old wardrobe door, the top of a commode or a rusted ornament of a fence speak. And the elements of interior and exterior will represent the atmosphere of the place more subtly than the illustrative image.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painter picked such specific talking object for her show \u201cEmergency Exit\u201d (\u201cMeno parkas\u201d gallery, 2017) a few years back, and the method of their portrayal was quite unexpected. One part of the exhibition was pictorial (painted creations, depicting an old object, a laconic motif of an interplay between several surfaces, etc.) and another consisted of things found by the artist. They can hardly even be called things, there was a piece of linoleum from a balcony floor or an old redundant mirror from a dormitory. By showing these noticed or picked objects, Drazdauskait\u0117 seemingly tried to reveal the principles of alchemy creation \u2013 how things from environment transform from one matter into another, how found things can make you ponder expressive form, colour and idea, and how to focus on the environment meditatively. It seems the classic already has more than just painting at her command \u2013 the surface of old linoleum revealed the whole scale of earthy shades to an observer and the dormitory mirror, covered in stickers by the students, traversed its functional plane and into symbolic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does not seem like that big of a deal to bring a piece of old linoleum to suit your paintings, if provocation is the aim, you can do that as well. However, it has nothing to do with provocation, the painter simply wants to show the distance that a look travels, the power of focussed attention, the secrets of environment, hiding right there, under your feet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laima Drazdauskait\u0117 does not create spontaneously, does not paint without deliberation: \u201cI think, prepare for a long time, but it\u2019s all done quickly from afterwards\u201d. The painter enjoys working in her studio, where she can peacefully ponder images, ideas and thoughts from an older time. The study is kind of there for the artist due to a long creative process, precisely so one could eventually arrive at the word \u201cenough\u201d. The painter\u2019s word \u201cenough\u201d is not easily achievable: \u201cI observe nature and find a myriad of \u201cevents\u201d that I then try to recreate in my painting. Things from my past and present intertwine there, and the immediate brush stroke, nuance of colour, perception of space capture the touches of me being here and now. I am interested in that, which lies beyond the limits of language, something hard to define or something entirely impossible to name\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laima Drazdauskait\u0117 was born on 29 September, 1947 in Kaunas. Graduated from Kaunas Children\u2019s Art School (now Art Gymnasium) in 1963. Graduated from the National Arts Institute in Vilnius (nowadays Vilnius Academy of Arts) in 1968. Was a painting and drawing teacher at Tel\u0161iai technical college of applied fine arts for a year by appointment (1968-1969). Returned to Kaunas and started working as a teacher (teacher-expert since 1996) at Kaunas Antanas Martinaitis School of Art from 1969. Member of Lithuanian Artists\u2019 Association since 1978. Assistant at the VMU Faculty of Arts, 1993-2002. Painting instructor at the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts since 1996; professor of painting department.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painter has received a grant from the Cultural Institute of Lippe District (Germany) in 1990; a grant from Soros Contemporary Art Centre in Lithuania in 1995 and 1997; Pollock-Krasner Foundation (USA) grant in 1997; highest national grant for culture and art creators of the Republic of Lithuania in 2001; Vantaa Artist Association (Finland) grant in 2004. Laima Drazdauskait\u0117 has received several awards: diploma for originality, international watercolour exhibition, Klaip\u0117da, 2005; Best work in ArtVilnius\u201913, Vilnius, 2013; golden pin from Lithuanian Artists\u2019 Association, Vilnius, 2014; Kaunas Art Creators\u2019 Association prize, 2017.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laima Drazdauskait\u0117 has done around 10 personal and almost 100 group shows. The painter is subtle and sensitive to the quality of light, i.e. always taking care whether there will be enough natural light at the exhibition and carefully picking where to take part and with who, thus this number of exhibitions is high. Her last anniversary exhibition \u201cEmergency Exit\u201d took place in the \u201cMeno parkas\u201d gallery in 2017. Her works have been acquired by the M. K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, MO, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100%; width:100%;\">\n\t<div id='map'>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\twindow.map_data = [{\"id\":1426,\"lat\":\"54.86920468112276\",\"long\":\"23.939788728735248\",\"title\":\"\\u0160an\\u010diai Barracks \\u2013 an interesting place for painters. 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