Lithuanians are brilliant at visual arts, in particular those who work with video and cameras.
Art experts say that this is the country's forte because Lithuanians suddenly found a swath of electronic equipment flooding into the country after the fall of the Soviet Union, which they took full advantage of.
Visitors to Vilnius during this summer will be able to enjoy one such exhibition of photography.
The Contemporary Art Centre, which has brought Lithuania and Vilnius some of its finest art and exhibitions is opening its new photography exhibition European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today vol.11
Launched in 1999, the European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today takes
European photographers to Japan to discover and document aspects of Japanese contemporary life that local photographers are inured to. In the last ten years, 45 European photographers have visited 30 prefectures of Japan and depicted it in its myriad guises.
The project is scheduled to continue every year and to take photographers to Japan's 47 prefectures. This is the eleventh project in the series and is a group exhibition of three photographers who visited Niigata prefecture. Arturas Valiauga from Lithuania focuses on everyday food shots in an expressionistic manner using specialised lenses.
Other European artists will also be exhibited. Andrew Phelps from Austria documented people, landscapes, and dwellings, and Hans-Christian Schink from Germany took large-format silver gelatine images to create ghostly landscapes.
European Eyes on
Japan / Japan Today vol.11
Opens July 13 and runs until August 16
Artists: Arturas Valiauga (LT), Andrew Phelps (AT), Hans-Christian Schink (DE)
Curated by: Mikiko Kikuta
Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2
LT- 01130 Vilnius
Lithuania
www.cac.lt
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