Vilnius Academy of Art Kaunas faculty gallery presents a solo exhibition of landscape paintings “Autumn in the Park” by the younger generation painter Mykolė Ganusauskaitė.
Autumn in the Park | painting 2023
Curator Raminta Jurėnaitė
2023 10 04 – 2023 11 15
Vilnius Academy of Art Kaunas faculty gallery
Muitinės street 2 Kaunas | I – V 8-18, VI 10-13
https://www.vda.lt/en/faculty-of-kaunas | www.mykole.com
Vernissage on Wednesday, October 04, 7 p.m.
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Painter Mykolė Ganusauskaitė, whose artist name is Mykolé, was born in Kaunas in 1987. As a child, living in the city centre, she happily attended her first afterschool art classes at Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery. After finishing primary school, she moved with her parents to Vilnius, where she continued her studies at the M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the National School of Fine Arts (Les Beaux Arts de Paris). When she was in the French capital, as well as when she later returned to Vilnius or travelled, the artist consistently devoted herself to a single task: a contemporary interpretation of the landscape genre.
Mykolé’s starting point is always the upfront impression of the landscape and the following meticulous studies of nature en plein air. For this purpose, she creates small sketches in watercolour and chalk pastels and takes photographs. From the material thus gathered, she later paints in oil or acrylic in her studio, where she concentrates and synthesises the visual and emotional impressions she has experienced and the analytical research she has conducted.
There are no people depicted in these landscapes, not even as small staffage figures, but their presence is always felt.
One of the main motifs that interest the landscapist is parks. Mykolé takes an interest in parks as landscapes that are shaped by human hands. Trees, shrubs, lawns, flowerbeds, paths, avenues, bodies of water, and panoramic views in parks are all elements of nature touched by human beings, staged. A park is not just a creation of nature but also of culture, always.
Prof. dr. Raminta Jurėnaitė
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