Lithuanian Art from the Rothko Museum Collection on Show in Cēsis
From 13 September, the Cēsis Concert Hall Art Gallery opens its doors to “Painted Worlds”, an exhibition that brings together recent works by Lithuanian artists from the Rothko Museum’s collection. On view until 23 November, the show offers audiences a vibrant encounter with contemporary Lithuanian painting.
The Cēsis Concert Hall Art Gallery and the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils share a long-standing relationship of friendship and collaboration. This autumn, their partnership brings to Cēsis a curated selection of paintings by eight Lithuanian artists, drawn from the Rothko Museum’s collection.
Created over the past decade during the Rothko Museum’s international symposiums honouring Mark Rothko and Silva Linarte, the works reflect the spirit of dialogue and shared reflection. Each canvas bears traces of the atmosphere unique to Rothko’s birthplace and the museum that bears his name. The result is a body of painting at once deeply personal and collectively resonant: expressive in gesture, diverse in approach, and fearless in its interpretation of ideas. Lithuanian colour sensibility, with its unexpected tonalities and rich contrasts, finds powerful expression here, illuminating how artists transform inner experience of the stimulating and collaborative symposium setting into vivid pictorial worlds.
The exhibition has been prepared by guest curator Inese Baranovska, Head of the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.
Participating Lithuanian artists include Romualdas Balinskas, Voldemaras Barakauskas, Ramūnas Čeponis, Ričardas Garbačiauskas, Eimutis Markūnas, Vitalija Petraitytė, Giedrė Riškutė, and Dainius Trumpis.
“Painted Worlds” opens at the Cēsis Concert Hall Art Gallery on 13 September and will remain on view until 23 November.
The exhibition is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation, Cēsis Concert Hall and the Rothko Museum.
The Rothko Museum Collection has grown hand in hand with the vision of creating an institution dedicated to world-renowned artist Mark Rothko (1903–1970) in his native Daugavpils. Today, it holds more than three thousand works by Latvian and international artists working in the spirit of modernism. Beyond safeguarding the collection, the museum shares it with audiences through regular exhibitions at home and in other cultural venues across Latvia and beyond.
Publicity image: Romualdas Balinskas. Table Game for One (2020). Acrylic, oil, charcoal and collage on canvas. 100 x 170 cm. DMRMC 661
