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J. A. Your installations frequently organically connect Lithuania at the UN headquarters and installing the
with your designs for the national pavilions and first permanent exhibitions on the occasion of the
exhibitions of Lithuania round the globe. Among such, opening of the long-awaited National Gallery of Art in

your works for the national pavilions at the EXPO Vilnius were the most committing tasks I approached
Zaragoza 2008 and EXPO Shanghai 2010 stand apart. with a lot or responsibility.
The ingenious and attractive concepts of the Rain J. A. Your installations employ unique materials –
House and Fly, Lithuania and their realizations were fragile and perishable (yarn, paper) or, in opposition,

received with great interest in Lithuania and abroad. hard and monumental (stone, different mechanisms).
S. V. Such tasks as the design of the National pavilion It is a paradox that these technologically challenging
at the world EXPO can be compared with climbing conceptions in your hands turn into precise and
of Mount Everest in alpinist terms – such is their subtle works.

ambition, their complexit y and scope. There is S. V. The materials I opt for have been reduced,
nowhere higher and nothing more complex. starting with 1991, to flax or cotton yarn and paper.
This year’s installation The Gardens of Europe, in All my major installation work featured paper scarps,
the atrium of Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, tapes, leaves and yarn. I jokingly say that in most

done on the occasion of the Lithuanian Presidency
cases all I need can fit into a handbag.
TOP CONTEMPOR ARY ARTISTS of the European Council, is the most recent work in Though outwardly my art seems quite abstract, it
always sends a message, and to communicate it in a
the same ‘series’. For me, as an artist and a citizen,
reasoned way is a major task to me. The relationship
the task of representing the national heritage of

DEATH LOOP, 1995 INSTALLATION, THE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE VILNIUS (LITHUANIA) 14.7X19.6 FT. | 4.5X6 M.

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