{"id":4342,"date":"2017-04-25T13:42:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/?page_id=4342"},"modified":"2017-07-07T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:34:50","slug":"dailylife-and-wonder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/dailylife-and-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Life: Photography from Lithuania<\/i> and Rebecca Gilbert: wonder<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 16, 2016 - April 22, 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Arturas Valiauga, I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life<\/em>, 2002<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thursday, December 15, 2016
\n<\/strong>Gallery Talk with the Artists and Curator, 5:30pm
\n<\/strong>John Caperton, The Print Center's Jensen Bryan Curator, was joined by artists Rebecca Gilbert and Gintaras \u010cesonis, Chairman of the Lithuanian Photographer's Association and organizer of\u00a0Daily Life<\/em>.
\n<\/strong>Opening Reception, 6:00 - 8:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Daily Life: Photography from Lithuania<\/strong><\/em> was organized by the Lithuanian Photographers\u2019 Association (LPA)<\/strong> as part of an ongoing partnership between the cultural community of Lithuania and The Print Center. The exhibition was selected by artist and Chairman of the LPA Gintaras \u010cesonis<\/strong>. The show provided an overview of some of the most significant photographic works created in Lithuania during the past fifty years. Each of the twelve artists presented used the camera to observe and capture the routines of everyday life, which are both stable and simultaneously subject to constant change, replacement and erasure. As the writer Milda Kiau\u0161ait\u0117 put it, \u201cDaily routine is where we are, and as everything that is the closest, it becomes virtually invisible.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDaily routine is where we are, and as everything that is the closest, it becomes virtually invisible.\u201d -\u00a0Milda Kiau\u0161ait\u0117,\u00a0writer\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The exhibition featured artists from two generations, one worked under the repression and censorship of Soviet occupation and another since independence in 1990. In these images, we saw their commonplace existence, which often bordered on the absurd, complete with the grime and pain accumulated in the corners of history and of individual lives.<\/p>\n

The older generation, active in the 1960s and 70s, was comprised of a group of artists considered the masters of Lithuanian photography including Romualdas Aug\u016bnas<\/strong>, Aleksandras Macijauskas<\/strong>, Antanas Mie\u017eanskas<\/strong>, Romualdas Po\u017eerskis<\/strong>, Romualdas Rakauskas<\/strong> and Antanas Sutkus<\/strong>. These photographers did not work to provoke social conflict, but rather publicized and highlighted the universal problems of being during the Soviet era. Other photographers from that time, such as Vitas Luckus<\/strong> and Algirdas \u0160e\u0161kus<\/strong>, subscribed to avant-garde style, communicating in a different visual language.<\/p>\n

The more recent generation of photographers, which has emerged since 2000, includes Gintaras \u010cesonis<\/strong>, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas<\/strong>, Donatas Stankevi\u010dius<\/strong> and Arturas Valiauga<\/strong>, speak to us in the language of today. Their work is characterized by an analysis of varied surroundings, groups of people and phenomena. They schematize and inventory experiences and life events, often with an almost clinical quality. Their photography is not impulsive; instead it is calculated and carefully plotted.<\/p>\n

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\"lithuanian-photo-logo\"<\/a>About the Lithuanian Photographers\u2019 Association<\/strong><\/p>\n

Established in 1933, the Lithuanian Photographers\u2019 Association is the central organization for photography in Lithuania. Originally established as an amateur photographers\u2019 association, early activities were suspended at the onset of Soviet occupation following World War II. In 1969, after a hard fought struggle with the Soviet bureaucracy, the organization was established as the\u00a0Association of Lithuanian Art Photographers<\/em>. It was the only such organization in the Soviet Union, and initially it functioned as a union. Membership provided exclusive access to professional work.<\/p>\n

Along with the exhibition, The Print Center had a collection of exceptional photo books from Lithuania available for viewing.<\/p>\n

This exhibition was the most recent activity resulting from The Print Center\u2019s partnership with Lithuania. Earlier in the fall of 2016, an exhibition created by The Print Center, Streets of Philadelphia: 1970-1985<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span>, traveled to the Prospekto Gallery, the Lithuanian Photographers\u2019 Association\u2019s gallery in Vilnius. Executive Director Elizabeth Spungen said, \u201cThe relationship we have forged with our colleagues in Lithuania has been rich and rewarding. We look forward to continuing the relationship and the sharing of the heritage of both cities and nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallery Notes, Daily Life Photography from Lithuania<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Press Release<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


\nPress<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReview | Daily Life: Photography from Lithuania at Philadelphia\u2019s Print Center,\u201d Lev Feigin, MUS\u00c9E Magazine<\/em>, <\/span>
\nJanuary 26, 2017\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGalleries: <\/span>Despair behind the Curtain,\" <\/span>Edith Newhall, Philly.com<\/em>,
\nJanuary 22, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pdf<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"The Print Center presents Daily Life: Photography from Lithuania, Lithuania in pictures.\" Pamela J.\u00a0 Forsythe, Broad Street Review<\/em>, <\/span>
\nDecember 27, 2016<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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All the works in the show were printed in Philadelphia by Jeffrey Stockbridge of Stockbridge Fine Art Printing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Romualdas Rakauskas, \u0160iokiadieniai\/ Weekdays<\/em>, 1963-1967<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Algirdas \u0160e\u0161kus, Meil\u0117s lyrika\/ Lyrics of Love,<\/em>\u00a01975-1977<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Donatas Stankevi\u010dius, Stotel\u0117je\/ On the Bus Stop<\/em>, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Romualdas Po\u017eerskis, Lietuvos senamies\u010diai\/ Old Towns of Lithuania<\/em>, 1976-1982<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>