Rimantas Plunge

About

Having initially studied painting, Rimantas Plunge’s work developed using collage processes, to the point that he works almost exclusively in this medium. Plunge’s work is focused upon three concepts that may be attributed to our understanding of our place in the world, namely, time, space and identity. The artist seeks to articulate personal perceptions and experiences of everyday life combined with specific events, thus evoking a personal narrative that serves to establish questions centred upon identity and personal mythologies. These ideas conform to notions of the ‘self’ as defined by the relationship to the ‘other;’ the ‘subject’ only being realised through the ‘object.’ The fragmented imagery and narrative collisions represents the artist trying to establish who he is, and by doing so points to who we might be, or become.

Rimantas Plunge leads the Contemporary Art Department, at the Vytautas Magnus University, in Kaunas, Lithuania. He has come to UCS as part of a developing collaborative relationship, sponsored by the Erasmus Scheme. Erasmus enables students and academic staff the opportunity to work within partner institutions, and to enter into a dialogue that interrogates the synergies and differences centred upon their discipline. This free exchange of ideas, expertise and working processes encourages creative networks that transcends international borders, in the hope of establish a European creative community, and academic community that celebrates internationalism