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Saulius Valius
Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania
http://www.sauliusvalius.lt
Saulius Valius: between the possible and the impossible
by Jurga Armanaviciute
The interview with the Renaissance type artist Saulius fine prints and participated in exhibitions. I did not
Valius, who works in graphic arts and installation, completely lose my interest in graphic arts entirely
exhibition architecture and design, acts as curator of afterwards, either – in 2003 and 2005, I created
exhibitions and runs a successful enterprise Ekspobalta, exhibition designs for the CAC graphic art shows.
enjoying fully merited acclaim, embraced all these But I have always been attracted by forms outside
themes as multiple facets of his creativity, as well as the plane and have taken interest in different media,
aspects of cultural policy where he also has contributed. sculpture, installation, architecture. The first visions
J. A. You majored in graphic arts, but for two past in three dimensions are already emerging in my last
decades you are known as an installation artist. lithographs from the end of the 1980s. In the spring of
Saulius Valius. For a decade after graduation I created 1991, I organized an international symposium Wind in
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