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Nida, and created, in the dunes, a spatial installation installation Synergy. The idea of the work struck me on

Mirage. The same year I realized the first in Lithuania the spot, upon entering the main space of incredible
big installation-performance in a closed space. The height. (I was responsible for the architectural design of
German journalist Ivon Friedrichs from Reinische Post Lithuanian exhibition at Turin Book Fair where Lithuanian
has referred to my installations as spatial graphic art. participated as a guest of honour).

This term could happily apply to most of my works, J. A. It is obvious that the environment and space
though it is a relative description. The installation Death spontaneously suggest you ideas for your installations.
Loop marked a breaking point in my art. S. V. Another example, in 2012, I was invited to
All of my installations take inspiration from the theme participate in Daejeon’s Biennial the Energy. There I

and location. It was already in 2002 when I created a could realize my sound installation Bell Orchestra, which
12-meter tall kinetic installation, A Book of the History had waited for an opportunity for nearly ten years.
of Lithuania, for the Lithuanian pavilion at the Frankfurt In a large circle, at generous spaces, I installed nine
Book Fair. In creating the installation I was ruminating bamboo tripods and fixed a bell in each. All of them

about uniqueness of the Lithuanian language and its were operated from one keyboard attached to “mother”
‘phoenix effect’: in forty years of banning the language bamboo object on three legs installed centrally in the
it did not disappear, but on the contrary, it resuscitated, circle. When the viewers played the keys, the bells
strengthened, and assumed a new form. In 2007, at sounded in the space in a circle at different corners

the National Turin Film Museum I realized a kinetic of the park.

ARCH, 1998 INSTALLATION, THE GAMES OF ART, MONCHENGLADBACH (GERMANY) 24.6X6.8X17.3 FT. | 7.5X2.1X5.3 M.
BOOK OF HISTORY, 2002 KINETIC ART INSTALLATION, FRANKFURT (GERMANY) 45.9X13.X13.1 FT. | 14X4X4 M.
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