Freedom to Create. Curator Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė
The exhibition discusses the importance of relationships between creators and informal gatherings during the Soviet occupation. One of the best known of these fireplaces was in the outskirts of Vilnius, Jerusalem, where artists Marija and Vladas Vildžiūnai settled in a wide range of people working in the cultural field: artists, sculptors, writers, philosophers, theater creators, actors and all who had a world-wide view of hosts. The young, talented sculptors supported by Vildžiūnas built workshops, cast bronze, concrete, boulder stone. The exposition of outdoor sculptures was as if on its own and next to these days.
Jerusalem Sculpture Garden \ t Between the 1970s and 1990s, a place of dialogue between artists, ideas and attitudes of different generations, interwar Lithuania's past and then reality became. Faith in the idea of freedom of creativity, the criticality of the truths to be imposed, help and healthy competition have taken away the network of communal relationships. As they walked constantly on the “can-not-do” border, artists created their own Jerusalem - later it became a significant part of the awakening Sąjūdis.
The legend of the Jerusalem Garden of Sculpture has been enriched by prominent personalities of art, music and theater. The contribution of many to the core of statehood - culture - has been evaluated by the National Prize for Culture and Art. This chamber-like exhibition reflects in many forms more than twenty laurels and other personalities, the artistic diversity of art, the synergy and tension between the art world and the state.
The exposition shows works by Vladas Vildžiūnas, Maria Ladigaitė-Vildžiūnienė, Algimantas Kunčius, Petras Repšys, Vytautas Šeris, Linas Leonas Katinas, Stanislovas Kuzma, Vladas Urbonavičius, as well as an archive material from the life of Jerusalem Sculpture Garden (filmed by Vladas Vildžiūnas), Vytautas Kernagis and Veronika Pavilionienė's musical works, excerpts from a documentary outline of sculptor Vladas Vildžiūnas (authors Juozas Matonis, Vytautas Damaševičius), excerpts from the performance of Jonas Jurašas “Barbora Radvilaitė”.
