Gediminas Akstinas. I WANT TO GO HOME

About

The exhibition features new or previously unseen works by sculptor and conceptual artist Gediminas Akstinas.

We often travel together, relaxed, a glass of juice that has poured back into itself comes to mind, we listen to music which we never before had heard together, and look at watercolours which we never before had looked at together.

There are many different kinds of rivers in the world: big and small, torrential, limpid, greenish, brown, blue or black. There are roads, streets and highways, museums in the state of ruin and caved in houses that have been rebuilt; dark lakes where much has fallen to the bottom and we will hardly ever know about it. Eyes accustomed to the images flowing and moving before them at the pace of a car’s running engine to various out-of-the-way places, offices. So much of the world looms at the indiscernible bottom of the lake. My oar does not touch it, it only causes a ripple in the water. In it, all is like a slippery fish – barely having grasped its belly, in a second its narrowing underbelly, then, for less than the blink of an eye having held the smooth tip of its tail, the thinnest part of a fish, your hand is free to move about in the water.

Not understanding small shelves is also good. Like old things, their time is light and fragile. There are several almost empty small cupboards/boxes in the exhibition, their space serves as an exit.

To follow the blue buttocks of elephants and red cabbage leaves – all in motion
The red cabbage
The large-leaved plant
The young engine
Engine
Fragile and old things
Dark lakes
The world’s rivers

(Elena Narbutaitė)

Cocoon, Sloughs, Students, Nadsat, Undressed Hills, Alanta, A. Tumėno Street, Small Shelves, Small Shelves-Cupboards (Gediminas Akstinas).

Sponsors: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

Design by Gabija Nedzinskaitė.

Text by Elena Narbutaitė.

Special thanks to Gediminas G. Akstinas and Gerda Paliušytė.