M. K. Čiurlionis House in Vilnius continues the cycle of meetings "Čiurlionis Tribe Today", which started in 2020. These meetings allow visitors to get acquainted with the representatives of the broad Čiurlionis tribe, which is spread all over the world and which today is realising itself in the most diverse spheres of creativity. Recent years have seen exhibitions of works by Juris Čiurlionis, who lives and works in Cleveland, Ariadna Čiurlionytė, a watercolourist from Vilnius, Jazmina Cicinas, who is based in Melbourne, and, more recently, Džiugas Palukaitis from Kaunas. As the anniversary year approaches, the meetings with the creators of the Čiurlionis tribe continue. This year, the visitors of the Čiurlionis House will meet two more representatives of the Čiurlionis House - painter Nomeda Čiurlionyte and photographer Paulis Lileikis.
On Wednesday, 6 March, at 17:30, the first meeting of the Čiurlionis House will take place in the Čiurlionis House. The exhibition "The Unity of Angels" by Nomeda Čiurlionyte, a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, will open at the M. K. Čiurlionis House at 5 pm. Most of the works on display were created during the extremely turbulent period of 2022-2024, when the war in Ukraine started, is still going on and is still going on. The opening evening will feature music by Myroslava Kotorovych, a violinist from Ukraine, who will perform works by Ukrainian composers, as well as a piano duet by Sonata and Rokas Zubovas.
The angel, as a sign of the spiritual world, as a protector, guardian, bearer of light and peace, is often seen in the paintings of M. K. Čiurlionis. When the artist visited Čiurlionis' house in Vilnius and talked about the forthcoming exhibition there, she had to admit that she only now noticed the unexpected parallels between the angels that appeared in her work and the work of M. K. Čiurlionis. Although the angel as a symbol is not a stranger to Nomeda Čiurlionytė's various periods, it is in recent years that it has become a predominant theme, carrying a very clear charge and meaning.
We are all experiencing the war in Ukraine in different ways, and this exhibition is the artist's personal response to the events in her occupied homeland. When Ukrainian soldiers asked her to create amulets that they could wear in their protective vests, she painted guardian angels who went to the front. These angels took on the symbol of a woman - a mother, a wife, a daughter. They wait patiently for their husbands to return from the war zone victorious. A distinctive feature is the wings of the angels, which take centre stage in the compositions of the works. The angels are trying to use their wings to drive away and cleanse the blackness that descends on innocent people. These angels have no facial features, as the main focus of the paintings is the white, energetic wings of angels. When people are at war, when rivers of blood are spilling, the beautiful angels unite silently and ask us: what are you doing, people?
