Opis wydarzenia
The installation Infinity by New York-based artist Ray Bartkus (b. 1961) is a continuation of the reflections and experiments he started a decade ago. The idea for the work came about while working on various commissions from prominent New Yorkers: people with almost limitless possibilities, enormous ambitions and responsibilities, wealth, beauty and power. It was interesting for the artist to think about this visually and to find a way to depict, without moralising, the icons of today and their rules of life. The atypical theme of the work is accompanied by an unconventional technique. The nails are driven into an aluminium mesh and their heads, like pixels on a computer screen, create drawings that are replicated many times over by means of mirrors. An unexpected contrast is created: everyday, crude construction details are used for the shiny facade portraits and their negatives on the opposite side of the glass. The MO Museum (Pylimo g. 17, Vilnius) will be open until 10 February.