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\"dariusbastys1\"<\/a>\u00a0Immortality, 2008<\/strong>\u00a0The story of Pinocchio’s transformation into a boy and loss of eternal life.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Beauty, 2008<\/strong>\u00a0About all people’s fondness of beauty and desire to decorate their environment (in this case, it is an allusion to wedding traditions).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Dramatic Still Life, 2011<\/strong>\u00a0Merely a collection of things found at home or an allusion to some dramatic story.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Dramatic Landscape, 2009<\/strong>\u00a0An attempt to relate current issues in the style of the old classics.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Marine Motifs, 2010<\/strong> A guinea pig (sea pig in Lithuanian) and another marine object whose scale the pig cannot comprehend, they are like two different worlds.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0A Magritte-like Day, 2012<\/strong> A dramatic painting alluding to the motifs of a favourite artist.<\/p>\n

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\"dariusbastys7\"\u00a0Alien, 2012<\/strong> A childhood dream, one of the scariest ones.<\/p>\n

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Studies, scholarships<\/strong><\/p>\n

1985-1993 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Sculpture<\/p>\n

1995 Scholarship of the Boswil Artists House (Switzerland)<\/p>\n

1997(?) Young artist’s scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania<\/p>\n

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Major exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Solo exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

2012 Five Years, Lietuvos Aidas gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

1996 Jutempus gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

Group exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

1999 Lithuanian Art 1989\u20131999. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

1998 Homo Silvanus. Wooden sculpture symposium. Baltic Culture Centre, Hasselby, Sweden<\/p>\n

DDD. Artists’ Studio, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

All That is Human and Necessary. Lietuvos Aidas gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

1997 DDD. Arka gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

Focus: Vilnius. Galerie im Trudelhaus, Baden, Switzerland<\/p>\n

Lithuanian Dialogues. Stazione Marittima, Trieste, Italy<\/p>\n

1996 To Be Alien. Neuenburg, Holderbank, Switzerland<\/p>\n

For Survival. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

New Lithuania. Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland<\/p>\n

Subordination. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

1995 1995: Lithuanian Art. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

Crossroad. International creative summer camp, Tartu, Estonia<\/p>\n

Christmas exhibition. Aargauer Kunsthaus, Arau, Switzerland<\/p>\n

1994 Irreversibly. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

1994 Bread and Salt. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; 1995 \u2013 Edinburgh Art College; Cornerhouse gallery, Manchester, UK<\/p>\n

1993 Between Sculpture and Object \u2013 in Lithuanian. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/p>\n

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Art critic on\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The paintings of Darius Bastys (\u2026) would hardly have been produced had painting been \u201calive\u201d. (\u2026) Perhaps it’s not so much painting as freewheeling experimentation. By juggling associations, Bastys has created a style without a style, varying from \u201cthe old masters\u201d to \u201cpop art\u201d, (…) albeit actually being none. He employs an anti-contextual tactic, grotesquely revealing that avoiding the context is impossible anyway. An inevitable paradox: the simpler and more elementary the chosen point of departure, the more semantically complex the end result. But what does this have to do with painting and its death? Absolutely nothing. Bastys does not pretend to be engaged in painting (or manages to hide that skillfully); neither does he pretend to be its gravedigger.<\/p>\n

K\u0119stutis \u0160apoka<\/em><\/p>\n

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Keywords of creative practice:<\/strong> art therapy<\/p>\n

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Artists who inspire me:<\/strong> Rene Magritte, Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis, John Everett Millais, Arnold Bocklin, Edouard Manet<\/p>\n

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Curriculum Vitae<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":903,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n