The volume of the mouvement, 2013
Musical Instrument, 2013
Untitled (the movement that didn’t have a dog and a stick around it), 2012

Photos by Robertas Narkus

Let it be later than never: a musician, writer of lyrics Geneva Jacuzzi from LA is coming to Vilnius. Geneva is a performer, whose lyricism works out your imagination, and her music is very familiar to your body and soul due to the analogue signal it is exposed over. Post punk Cleopatra, a model from the 80s and a teenager form the 90s – these are only a few of her alter egos. An album “Lamaze” is one of these rarities that, after you have listened to it for 20 times, you can continue listening forever: tuff, hammering, dreamy, synth, rap, visual, dark, deep, significant.

Online:
http://genevajacuzzi.com/
https://thegardens.lt/
http://dosclub.tk/
http://surfthroughrockcountry.tumblr.com/

Lara Favaretto (b. 1973) is an Italian artist living and working in Torino, Italy. Her works – sculptures, installations, and performances – carry references to the contemporary society, the convention of its autonomy and control systems, industrial world, and art history. Favaretto’s art is in many cases satirical; humor here is fused together with tragedy and drama. Animated objects such as “dancing” washing poles from a car-wash, sealed room full of confetti, or “whistling” gasbags, makes one smile and at the same time become worried due to the uncannines of the “physiognomies” of self-suffcient things one is facing. The artist often deals with the objet trouvé or her own pieces previously exhibited, which taken apart or in whole expose new potentialities and powers. Her artworks bear a quality of the ephemeral expressed through the shifting nature of the objects she employs for her pieces.

For the first time the three artworks are exhibited in one space: “27 Luglio” (“July 27”), 2002, “DOVE VA LA STRADA VA LO STESSO” (“WHEREVER THE ROAD GOES, IT GOES THE SAME”), 2006, “For All Ages”, 2006. Conceived especially for The Gardens the installation is composed of ventilators blowing air in a certain speed necessary to make the drawings and the calendar with the date of the artist’s birthday stay on the wall.

The idea is to think about the space in a different speed so that it could be possibly reconstituted elsewhere.

Recent solo shows include: “Momentary Monument IV” in d’OCUMENTA (13), “Just Knocked Out” at MoMA PS1, 2012, “Painlessly Consumed” at Franco Noero gallery, 2010. Selected group shows: “Making Worlds” in the 53rd Biennale of Venice, 2009, Frieze art projects at Frieze Art Fair, 2007.

Curators: Gerda Paliušytė and Inesa Pavlovskaitė
Opening this Saturday, December 15, 2012, 7-9pm
The exhibition is on view through February 15, 2013.

Kindly supported by LR Ministry of Culture.

Lara Favaretto, installation view

Lara Favaretto, 27 Luglio, 2002

Lara Favaretto, DOVE VA LA STRADA VA LO STESSO, 2006

Lara Favaretto, For All Ages, 2006.

Lara Favaretto, DOVE VA LA STRADA VA LO STESSO (detail), 2006

Photos by Robertas Narkus

Scale and size in this exhibition become a thought traveling between objects and distances, or it turns to be a separate shape that Odysseus has in mind when walking with an oar on the shoulder and waiting for a question of a stranger what the shovel is for.

Gediminas G. Akstinas (b. 1987) currently lives and works in Vilnius.  Recent exhibitions: Evening with dr. Sheppard , Contemporary Art Center, 2012;  Sparrows, Cntemporary Art Center , 2012; 2012; Scenario for Swimming Pool, Vilnius Lazdynai Swimming Pool, 2012.

Jurgis Paškevičius (b. 1987) currently lives and works in Amsterdam.  Recent  exhibitions:  Sparrows, Cntemporary Art Center , 2012; Who’s Knocking At My Door?, TV Series, Episode 1, 2, 3, Bosboom Toussaintstraat, 2012; Scenario for Swimming Pool, Vilnius Lazdynai Swimming Pool, 2012.

This exposition could have many titles. Each of them would depend from the first thought of a visitor, which would lead the body from one artowk to another, from one to another. This is the way Moby Dick or Snowflakes could appear, or Moby Dick in the Snow. In this case Moby Dick wouldn’t be visible – Herman Melville said that it was a white whale and even more tangible objects loose their forms and sizes in the heavy snow. At that time their appearance is dependent from you – the spectator and snowflakes – outer factors on this side. A wish to understand things more cleary could stimulate the need for a scale and take you for a search of a subsidiary size, necessary for creation of this scale. Such as a matchbox in the pocket. A gaze would wander through the surface of the matchbox, slip back to itself and then again towards the same object or phenomena that it seeks to perceive. This is the way how some things become the scales-conventional sizes, mediators between the spectator and the view which is more complicated for grasping at once.
It’s even more interesting how the thoughts themselves become this kind of mediators, which lead to finding of a matchbox in a pocket and later on a palm, thinking about it as a size, necessary for understanding the form, which appeared just in front of your eyes that day and surprised you. Thoughts also appear as forms; independent from the direction we are guided by them. If talking about a color we notice the deep of it, at the same time we meet a thought, thriving in a spereate shape in the motion of this observation. Having understood this, it is interesting to think about a thought, which acts as a conventional size/scale, a thought-scale; to consider how the same thought strikes against particular examples, how it changes after and lets itself to be carried further by this. Pepsi or Coke?
On the other hand, exhibition is not a given map. The artworks of the exhibition each indicating the variable sizes or contours form together the mountains crest. All the exposition together with the artworks acts as the potential scales, and scales could become guides for the new maps to appear.

Gerda Paliušytė

Gediminas G. Akstinas, Wish from the Idea, 2012
Drawing on paper put in the corridor next to the main entrance of the Hall of Stars.

Gediminas G. Akstinas, Untitled, 2012
Two stills from the video, which was made in Vilnius Picture Gallery at the same day, when the curtains were being washed. Prints are hanging next to the back entrance of the Hall of Stars.

Gediminas G. Akstinas, Screening of the shot, 2012
Shot is shown in the cinema hall on 31.08 at 7:30pm and 8pm.

Jurgis Paškevičius, Look-alike, 2012
Black and white photography hanging on the column in the hall on the second floor.

Jurgis Paškevičius, Fonts, 2012
Black and white slide projection in The Gardens exhibition space.

Jurgis Paškevičius, Tracking the Satelite, 2012
A photography of an object from the roof of the planetarium, that would appear on the Internet. The object will stay on the roof till the first meeting with the satelite taking picture of him.

Photos by Robertas Narkus