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Ignas Kazakevičius "Composition-3", 2023, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm.
I have been painting for over 20 years. I noticed that "landscape compositions" fell into an independent long-term cycle. In them you will always find hints to the horizon. The horizon in my painting is an attempt to look at one's life, thoughts and feelings of others from a distance.
The horizon in the picture is explained very simply. Its visible or even sensed line divides the work into, in philosophical terms, the knowable and the unknowable world. It's kind of an archetype. For example, the Germanic-Scandinavian myths tell about Utgard, or the outer, closed distant land of the gods, the transcendental world, and the earthly, material one called Midgard, where people live.
My works are the mood of a day or a story about that place, thoughts were born at that time, and exactly in the place where they needed to appear. According to Arvydas Šliogeris, the most famous Lithuanian philosopher, it is philotopia or unconditional love for the place where you are. Shlioger calls that place the area beyond the horizon.
Each work has an accompanying letter - a story, like a certificate of specific place and time coordinates.
Ignas Kazakevičius is an art critic and curator, who particularly appreciates non-traditional methods of creation and curation, metaphor, pop-aesthetics, and cultural remixes.
Born in 1973 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
1993–1997, 2010–2012 studied at the Department of Art History and Criticism of Vytautas Didios University (Kaunas, Lithuania). Since 2001 - Member of the Union of Lithuanian Artists. Since 2005 - a member of the Lithuanian Art Creators Association (LMKA). Wrote more than 350 critical, analytical, review articles on art, culture, etc. topics. in 2004 I. Kazakevičius initiated the establishment of the Klaipėda Cultural Communication Center (KKCC) and headed it until 2020.
I. Kazakevičius 2021 - 2022 was the chairman of the Kaunas branch of the Union of Lithuanian Artists. During the presidency, the 10th LDS gallery "Drobė" was established;
2021 - 2022 - Chief editor of "Dailė" magazine. Under his leadership, a new concept and style of the magazine was created.
2021 - 2022 I. Kazakevičius managed the first independent art fair in Lithuania - ARTCOMPENSA.
Since 2003 I. Kazakevičius curated over 50 art exhibitions and projects. The projects question the relationship between the aesthetic and social categories of the art process, the stereotypes of communication between the art audience and the author, the concept of prestige and artist ratings.
The curator was one of the first organizers of the "Now Art Now Future" project, which presented exhibitions as an art tour around Lithuania (2005-2008).
In cooperation with foreign organizations, he presented projects in Lithuania: "Prestige: today's phantasmagoria" (co-curator Nicolas Bourriaud, 2012); 3worldsin1 (co-curated by Edward Lucie Smith and Zavier Ellis, 2011); Russian Contemporary Art, Aesthetics Vs Information (2010); Chinese Contemporary Art, Who Am I? 798 Impressions” (jointly with Beijing Gallery Association President Xin Dong Cheng, 2017).
Presented Lithuanian artists and their projects abroad: IV – at the Moscow Biennale (2011); 11th Luleo Art Biennale "LAB-11", Luleo, Sweden, Saba Art Center, Tehran, Iran (2012); Nordic Art Triennial, Eskilstuna, Sweden (2013); in the project "Close stranger", Gdansk, Poland, 2013 - 2015; at the Déjà vu project, Beijing, China (2017).
Ignas Kazakevičius works in the field of culture as a curator and producer of art and cultural events, creative industry projects, and an expert in art processes.
The author about his work:
All my cultural experiences find an echo in painting. I have been painting for over 20 years. It is not an escape from reality, relaxation, rest or anything else, just a visual form of communication. Painting is a universal diary for me, the realization that the world does not begin and end with my life or someone else's life, it ends with a horizon that begins to recede as soon as it is thought about. You will always find hints of the horizon in the paintings. Its marking is an attempt to look at one's own life, the thoughts and feelings of others from a distance. My creations are the mood of a day. It is a story about that place, where thoughts were born at that time, and precisely in the place where they needed to appear. Each work has an accompanying letter - a story, like a certificate of specific place and time coordinates.
The author is a member of the Lithuanian Union of Artists.
The author has the official status of an artist, granted by the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania.
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