Susanne Möhring

 

Susanne Möhring is a German artist. Her artworks are connected to the nature, especially the powerful wilderness, which is not a subject to control. In artist‘s works the human being is absent. Only small evidences testify about some civilization in the past.

 

The topic of the paperworks „Hortus apertus“ is an abandoned garden. The flowers are growing all over the walls. The human is absent and the wilderness takes it space back. This series of artworks were developed in the surrounding of the Medieval thematic - “Maria in the closed garden” (hortus conclusus). The works pose questions related with nature, virginity and human attitude of trying to control everything.

 

Two paintings of the series “Les cachettes” were produced in the project “The hidden horizon. Imagination, space and the future”. What does exist behind the “things”? How can one describe his imaginations which touches the future and the space behind self-constructed walls? The human being is often damned to imagine the things that can‘t be explained. In this series of works Susanne Möhring tries to describe an idea of the unimaginable world. Nature and thinking of visions beyond are connected in these artworks – there is no concrete answer.

Ellisif Hals

 

Ellisif Hals is a Norwegian artist. The works of Ellisif Hals are all drawings in a mixed technique. The artist mostly works on drypoint paper with watercolors, gouache, soft pastel and oil pastel. These drawings are the result of a process of actions such as drawing, fading, erasing, putting on a new layer and experimenting with an interaction of materials. Visually, the works have a connection with a certain style of illustration which might remind the drawings in old schoolbooks. Ellisif Hals found this visually fascinating in its boldness, how it describes faraway phenomena and situations unknown to the human eye. An interaction between the intuitive process and illustration ideal is the main Ellisif Hals‘ interest while creating this series of artworks. 

Gintare Radvilaviciute

 

Gintare Radvilaviciute as art director and artist is one of the most interesting artists of Lithuanian puppet theatre, who is distinguished for her individual artistic fingerprint, authenticity of staging decisions, attention to scenic dramaturgy, tendency to experiment, create new theatrical formulas of expression.

 

The performances staged by the artist clearly allow us to speak on two main tendencies of creative searches, two principles of creating artistic realty: 1. assimilation of lifeless objects and turning them into characters of a performance, symbolic figures (Christmas puppets’ performance for all family “Po Betliejaus žvaigžde” (Under the Star of Bethlehem), 2006; performance of objects for grownups “Juoba”, 2008); 2. combination of live body of an actor and a puppet in the search for new quality by extending the possibilities of movement plastics and creating more mobile metaphoric view (“Vienintelė” (The Woman), 2004; “Angelų pasakos” (Tales of Angels), 2005, “Žvėrių karnavalas” (Carnival of the Animals), 2009 ).

 

The puppets in the exhibition are created as sketches for the performance “The Thing” (under story of Danill Charms “The Thing”) and are a result of residency in Kunstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop (Germany) in 2010.

 

The puppets created from wire express a nature of the characters in the most effective way, reflect their strong emotion, and enable flexible motions. The puppets might be wrapped, crushed, murdered, scissor up, sprinkled and reproduced differently from the human personages. Every inflection of the wire is like a deformation of the human stipulated by various happenings.

 

The human world first of all is material world. Nowadays things are more important than human beings. Somtimes person himself becomes the thing in the hands of another person. Usually things are valued in terms on how much they are suitable for consumption, i.e. if it is possible to devour, eat or blandish...