Event description
"This exhibition is my speculative touch on the myth of Zarathustra created by the great 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Zarathustra, the Enlightened One, who descended from a high mountain and proclaimed in the market square the Superman and the Last Man. It is a call to awareness, commitment and action. His word stirs, like music calling for a dance. To life. Not to scholasticism, speculation, complex schemes. As one of the protagonists of Hugo's novel "Le Cathédrale de Paris", the foppish Jean, said: "Damn Aristotle! I don't want his metaphysics to ruin my only move." Drawing from photographs, I recreate a portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche as a superman, as Zarathustra incarnate. I want the hand to show the mind how it really is.Who is he to me, this enlightened one touched by madness? Has he found or lost himself? "You are not you, but I am I", God once said to St Catherine. But if God is dead now, isn't our ego, that little bubble, the force that weighs the Universe?" (Darius Rakauskas) will be on view at the Akademija Gallery (Pilies str. 44/Latako str. 2, Vilnius) until 4 October.