Twenty years ago, the name of this artist was spoken by the elite of the port city almost in whispers, with conspiracy: his abstract painting, not serving any ideology, seemed to be the antipode of socialist realism. Natalevičius' works seemed to offer metaphysical solace.
For his part, the artist himself did not see himself as a lone ruler of darkness and sarcastically retorted that art already existed, and he was not an inventor, only an embodimentist, rebuilding new mythological worlds out of the fragments and fragments of the dismantled worlds. It is as if it were the fractures of the soul, the splinters of the spirit, dramatic juxtapositions in which bright spots "cut" the black colouring. If you look closely, you will see that there is no pure black in Natalevičius' paintings. In blackish, blackish tones, he manages to "asphalt" a mystical web through which a ray of light is always trying to break through. Natalevičius' paintings are close to Christian iconography, but at the same time they also have a pagan freedom.
L. Natalevičius studied at the Lithuanian State Art Institute (now Vilnius Academy of Arts) in 1975-1981, and became a member of the Lithuanian Artists' Union in 1989. He has held and participated in about 20 solo and group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. His works are included in the Lithuanian Art Foundation.
