Lithuania

Linas Jusionis

Vilnius

Galerija VARTAI

Painting

Observing the mountain

Approaching the Galibier

Afternoon in the park

Climbing

Shaded

The name of the exhibition alludes to the time of day when all formal and meaningful activity is halted, giving way to something passive and of no import, when images dissolve in a state of torpor – images that can be seen in the artist’s new paintings. At the same time, this exhibition is also a gently ironic response to the everyday routine altered by the pandemic.

‘I want to concentrate on a glance and an image, to distil the sensation and completely distance myself from storytelling or the construction of meaning. Imagery originates in the landscape and simultaneously seems to be trying to escape from it, balancing between boredom, idyll, and tension. It is a liminal state in which nothing happens and at the same time fundamental experiences – desire, boredom, anxiety, and curiosity – are actualised,’ says the artist.

In the exhibition, the author analyses the phenomenological experience of the image. Narrative and the meaning of the image seem to be bracketed, and the familiarity of objects fades as they turn into sensory, stimulating signs. The motifs of the works evolve out of mundane events and sensations, which are in turn crystallised as associative details and simple visual structures. The strenuous yet ostensibly liberating bodily experience of cycling uphill for several hours is conveyed by two gentle lines that resemble a winding road or a stream. A recurring glance through the window balances between meditation and voyeurism. The structure of the window in the work is both an observed object and the gaze itself, continually looking for something to focus on and eventually fixating on the distant horizon. Also important in the painter’s work is the experience of time and place, experience that is abstracted and made universal.

Siesta

Siesta

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