Meškauskas Jonas

Jonas Motiejus Meškauskas (1998) is a visual artist who develops his ideas in the medium of painting. In his paintings, Jonas uses a certain creative methodology – namely the trashiness of cardboard as a material, the monochromatic nature of the expression, the systematically fragmented archive of images, which is the basis of the motifs, based on a playful approach and a moderately anarchic attitude. Using these instruments, he constructs not individual works, but a network of them, representing the sensibility and artistic access of the post-internet generation, based on a digital, global archive of pictorial references, and a resistance to it, using unnatural materials and crude techniques that raise questions about the materiality of painting and the possibilities of commodification. Each photograph is used as a sign or a catalyst for an effect that allows the tradition of the photographic image to be reactivated in painting, not through the anachronistic transposition of the photographic image, but through the construction of a cultural cross-section based on contingency, related to today’s generation. The accumulation of images based on this anti-methodology allows us to reflect the networked nature of contemporary culture, which opens up the possibility of interpreting Jonas’ work not as a collection of discrete objects, but as an intertwined set of images and an active process of thinking about images, in which not only the content but also the context is important.

Not limiting himself to his personal practice, but also expanding into curating practice, Jonas Motiejus Meškauskas addresses contemporary issues not only through architectural or lighting solutions, but also by using the collective togetherness as a creative strategy. The inclusion of different media and the search for intertextual connections between media are important in the curated projects. It is also important not only to involve professional creators, but also to search for participants at the margins, at the edges of the art field.

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Moments from personal exhibition “Vanishing point” by Jonas Meškauskas. Photo – Andrej Vasilenko.

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Meškauskas Jonas