Audrius Puipa created huge - not in terms of format, but in terms of number of characters - and complex action scenes. In his works, consciously or subconsciously, he tried to document the social and physical environment that was irreversibly changing at the time. Some of his domestic scenes are close in wit to the bambocciata (Italian for "fooling around") genre painting of the first half of the 17th century. This type of work depicts comic scenes of peasants, soldiers, and members of the lowest social classes enjoying themselves, getting drunk and fighting. Audrius Puipa's watercolour and graphic works, like the paintings of this genre, are small in size, characterised by a realistic manner of execution, and a mixture of interior and still-life genres. The artist's style can be described as puipism or magical realism, where real and fantasy are intertwined in one scene. Each painting has a special sense of time, which marks not only the main scene, but also the backstage, parallel lives and links to the past. There is always a mysterious life in the paintings, which the viewer can witness. What is happening is not just a fascinating moment worth capturing. Events often unfold on several levels of space, not just one. "Laiptų galerija" (Žemaitės str. 83, Šiauliai) will be open until 1 February.