{"id":1715,"date":"2015-12-10T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atmintiesvietos.azuolynobiblioteka.lt\/routes\/alternative-guide-the-lost-artistic-kaunas-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:24:46","slug":"alternative-guide-the-lost-artistic-kaunas-2","status":"publish","type":"routes","link":"https:\/\/atmintiesvietos.azuolynobiblioteka.lt\/en\/routes\/alternative-guide-the-lost-artistic-kaunas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ALTERNATIVE GUIDE: THE LOST ARTISTIC KAUNAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How do specific locations and surroundings affect the artist? I do not say that a specific place in the city is important. (&#8230;) A lot depends on the individual traits of a painter. But I do not agree that this artistic uniqueness of someone can be damaged by a place.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This provocative and suggestive discussion by a painter Romualdas \u010carna in \u201cKult\u016bros barai\u201d was published in 1983, together with texts by other artists and art historians who wrote about Kaunas and its artistic life, which was then still struggling to adapt to the great losses of the post-war period. It was a city, which was the centre of technocratic culture, where, according to Nijol\u0117 Luk\u0161ionyt\u0117, \u201cthe average audience member was statistically a student of technical sciences, a student or an engineer, i.e. a person with a specialised education that would not always find specific issues of fine art relevant and understandable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite that, the city managed to maintain and create spots that would strongly attract creative people: artist workshops scattered around the city, various informal places of gathering, including a workshop and exhibition space in a multiresidential building at Pergal\u0117s (Victory) embankment, later the former Jewish synagogue, Artist Home, etc. During the Soviet times, there were not many places like that: their attractiveness depended on the people frequenting them and their significance for the artistic life of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the 1980s, Kaunas Home of Architects was a friendly place for arts, and especially for the \u201cnew\u201d arts. During the times of S\u0105j\u016bdis, it was the gathering place of the Culture Club of Architects; it also hosted popular New Year\u2019s Exhibitions and the first examples of conceptual art. At the junction of the 1980s and the 1990s, several places favourable for such creativity were formed. Moreover, there existed the institutional climate that allowed Kaunas to act as the capital of new arts for several years. Besides Lithuania\u2019s Union of Artists and House of Architects, another significant place was the first private Kaunas art gallery called AL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems that the most famous artists of Kaunas have somewhat merged together with certain places of Kaunas. The architects of Kaunas, Antis band, painter Rimvidas Jankauskas-Kampas, Post Ars collective, gallery owner Albertas Stankevi\u010dius, the Antinis sculptors, father and son, and other creators and inhabitants of this cultural microcosmos of the city, were usually identified as closely related to certain places: The House of Architects in Kaunas, Antis caf\u00e9, Synagogue, artist workshops, etc. These spaces became synonymous to active, creative and vibrant artistic life in Kaunas, but they have also witnessed the continuous erosion of urban memory, and thus, today, almost all important cultural beacons of that time are now parts of the \u201clost\u201d city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the witnesses of these times, the so-called memory communities, have been carrying within themselves these memory landscapes and shaping them according to their own world-view. However, the places which are continuously disappearing, crumbling and changing beyond recognition, resist and change the colours and shapes of these memories, thus not only shaping the collective memory, but also gradually affecting the changes in those memories&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Must the sources of creative powers dry out for the new ones to spring? Are there others, significant and vibrant springs of urban culture present in Kaunas? Could Kaunas say that it has got ridded of the labels of the technocratic and philistine city?..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do specific locations and surroundings affect the artist? I do not say that a specific place in the city is important. (&#8230;) A lot depends on the individual traits of a painter. But I do not agree that this artistic uniqueness of someone can be damaged by a place. 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