DUENDE
Contemporary Lithuanian Textile Art
Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas, Madrid, ES
20.12.2022 – 29.01.2023
exhibition poster with detail of the work: LAIMA ORŽEKAUSKIENĖ ORE Diptych Joyful Life Story, 2010
Digital Jacquard weaving, synthetic thread 2 parts, 180 x 65 cm each, MO Museum collection
The exhibition DUENDE, Contemporary Lithuanian Textile Art, focuses exclusively on contemporary textile works created by internationally recognized Lithuanian artists. This interactive exhibit with spatial objects immerses the viewer in an environment where everything is conceptually related.
Art is something intangible and difficult to define in words. Duende is an expression that refers to art that is born naturally – it is the special gift that some artists have. The concept goes beyond reason, it touches directly on the emotions that provoke the viewer.
As Federico García Lorca says “the duende is a power and not an action, it is a struggle and not thinking.”
The exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Spain and Lithuania and shows, for the first time in Madrid, contemporary textile works created by 16 internationally recognized Lithuanian artists and who will present 24 works of art and 9 NFT's, some of them the collection of the MO Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. This interactive exhibition with spatial objects immerses the viewer in an environment where everything is conceptually related.
Its objectives are to promote and disseminate the latest contemporary artistic trends in Lithuania and to open new horizons to bring the Art of Fiber closer to the Spanish public from the perspective of Northern Europe with large-scale works and the perspectives of the NFTS as an innovative format of artistic expression, fostering future cultural exchanges between Spain and Lithuania.
Organized and curated: Vilma Mačianskaitė and María Ortega.
Guided tours: Tuesday, January 17 and 24, 2023: from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Thursday 12, 19 and 26 January 2023: from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays 14, 21 and 28 January 2023: from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas
P.º de Colombia
28009 Madrid
Spain
White Moths Suktinis | The Whirlabout 2015 Kinetic installation, video loop; silk fabrics, handmade silk cocoons, wood, metal; h 2.4 m, Ø 2 m
ALMYRA WEIGEL, Daily Bread 2007 Bread, hot glue, spray paint 12 objects (detail)
ALMYRA WEIGEL Daily Bread 2007 Bread, hot glue, spray paint 12 objects
MONIKA ŽALTĖ The Room, from the series Best of Luck, Digital Jacquard weaving, cotton 250 x 140 cm
LAISVYDĖ ŠALČIŪTĖ, Specially for You 2019 Canvas,
embroidery, artist’s clothing and shoes,chair. 140 x 60 x100 cm
MONIKA ŽALTĖ The Room, from the series Best of Luck, Digital Jacquard weaving, cotton 250 x 140 cm