Event description
The exhibition intertwines two genres of classical painting - portrait and landscape - to highlight the colour nuances of different geographical landscapes and the ethnographic nature of the portrayed, mainly female, images. In the contemporary post-colonial context, this is a critically reflective look at the culture and the human Other, but in the face of the challenges of climate change, the landscapes of the natural world are certainly a source of admiration. Questions of identity also arise in the attempt to characterise the portrait of Domšaitis himself - a foreigner without a homeland (German: Heimatlose Ausländer). The artist's artistic legacy, presented in this exhibition, testifies to the fact that, up to the present day, the (art) world, migrating between languages and cultures, identities and geographies, constantly confronts itself with a self-consciousness based on the differences between "they" and "we", and encounters the codes of visual language that have deep (ideological) traditions in Western culture. The exhibition will be on view at the National Gallery of Art (Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius) until 9 February 2025.