#VilniusMuseums
One of the questions of my question series called: What kind of Vilnietis (aka a Vilnius resident) you are if you ....?
here it comes....
So: What kind of Vilnietis you are if you haven't visited Sauka's Exhibition?
oh dear...
EXHIBITION: The Man with Sauka’s Face painting by Šarūnas Sauka
LOCATION: National Gallery of Arts (Vilnius museum # ??)
Admission fee: 1,80 EUR
The National Gallery of Arts is situated on the right bank of Neris River in the newly developed centre of Vilnius. The first building of the National Gallery of Arts was designed by the architects Gediminas baravykas and Vytautas Vielius, and was build in 1980. The reconstruction and extension to the National Gallery of Arts was undertaken by Audrius Bučas, Darius Čaplinskas and Gintaras Kuginis in 2005 - 2009.
The National Gallery of Arts displays 20th and 21st-century Lithuanian paintings, sculpture, graphic art, photography and contemporary art from Lithuania and abroad.
The National Gallery of Arts also has a multipurpose auditorium for conferences and cultural events, an education centre, information centre, bookshop and cafe.
(info taken from a ticket)
Official exhibition poster
The exhibition has got a lot of public attention, and, I dare to say, advertising.
Delfi states (in Lithuanian) that solely on January 16 exhibition was visited by 1170 guests!
Oooopsss.....Sorry for repeating myself
The same on Sunday (February 28) - a crowd of people. A queue to get a ticket, a queue to hang a coat and a crowd of people in front of each painting.
And here come some paintings:
A Temple
as far as I remenber: Murder at a Restaurant
one of the creepiest: Group Entertainment
I like that: A Man with Problems
(reminds me myself, although it's not clear
if these are Problems or some kind of Bugs)
Artist's daughter Monika Saukaite, who is also the coordinator of the exhibition, talking about Sauka's paintings ( only in Lithuanian).
Other temporary exhibition: Light in the Darkness by Birute Stancikaite
Summer
The National Gallery of Arts is a part of Lithuanian Art Museum, a permanent exhibition is located there.
Piligrims in the Vilnius Calvary by Pranciskus Jurjevicius (in Lithuanian)
as I remember A view from the Gediminas Hill by Viktoras Vizgirda
Panorama by Antanas Gudaitis
View of Bernardine Church from Vilnele river by V. Vizgirda
Samogitian Women by Antanas Gudaitis
Panorama of Vilnius from Tauras hill by Michał Rouba
a beautiful painting .....
but I can't decipher neither name nor the artist
our dearest Žemaitė also sits in the permanent exhibition
Although I didn't like Sauka much, I just loved the permanent exhibition with it's realism and I admired the spacious halls of the gallery.
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