Austėja Bručaitė, Art Critic
Once the wonderful frost flowers have adorned the windows and the first cold snaps have hit, BALTA Gallery announces again the opening of the exhibition/competition “Spalva – Nuotaika – Simbolis”. For the fourth year already, the artists may present their compositions to the public, to demonstrate an original style or exceptional technique. This year, the exhibition is especially rich since rather small premises had to accommodate ideas of as many as 74 artists being materialised in glass, leather, paper, or being painted, embroidered, drawn on white canvas. Each year, the gallery asks to produce the compositions reflecting a personal relationship with white colour. The presented symbols express the mood, whereas the mood reveals the personal involvement and experiences of the artist. Thus, the aforesaid chain may be maintained to be the way to know the world of other person, to know the very person, to learn who that person is and what his emotions are.
By a part of people, white colour is associated with cleanness and purity, another ones perceive it as sacral, introversive state or space, whereas the others strive to display aesthetics of the very colour. For some persons, white colour means sorrow and mourning; for other individuals, it implies the beginning of everything, i.e. birth, wedding, etc. Somebody
sees a dream in white, whereas another discerns the adventure experienced or nostalgia for a past event. Finally, there are those who just want to wish something to a visitor of BALTA Gallery. In any case, each emotion and each composition are supremely sincere, baring the soul of the artist and enabling to look at white colour through the eyes of the author. For the latter, white colour signifies an empty stage, empty canvas or blank paper, wherein each dot, each line or dash communicate the artist’s world, his message, his life story.
The winner of „Color – Mood – Symbol 2012“
Obcarskas Antanas with artwork „Acrylic characters – 7“.
Catalogue from exhibition is here.
