Sculpture

After graduating in Fine Art university degree in Granada (Spain) and having an independent formation in Berlin (Germany), He is currently working in the Professional Dance Company “Aura Dance Theatre” (Kaunas, Lithuania).
Francisco held solo shows as “Al límite de lo lúdico (2018) or “Peligro de derrumbe” (2019) and collective exhibitions like XXXVI Rioja National Art Exhibition (2020), winning the second prize with his piece “Dialogue with the spinning-top”.
Finally, it is worth mentioning his teaching labor in workshops like “About drawing. through the body” (Madird, Spain) and “Tell me how you draw and I will tell you who you are” (Granada, Spain).

“When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant. But when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” (Andrei Tarkovsky – “Stalker”)
Connecting with the words said by Stalker during the expedition in “The Zone” in the famous movie of Tarkovsky, this piece proposes to sail between these two opposing concepts that, at the same time, they need from each other. A constant dialogue between the organic body and the structured space surrounding it; the pliancy and the hardness; the weakness and the strength… being both aware that their nature is based in implicitly contain the other.

I work mainly around the method I’m developing, Reconstruction, and its a life/art process, it focus in using the domestic objects to convey the stage of the balance between the self and the group, with focusing on the other as individual/private and public.

I explore the relationship between the individual, domestic furniture and space. I’m particularly interested in used furniture and the connotations it holds, and issues of absence and presence, intimacy and the charged potency of empty space.I used the chair in their works often as a reference to human presence in which I explore the question of a particular tension in each one of my projects. The aim is not to represent a specific individual but to address particular conditions of human existence and identity, in relation to place and home. And try to reveal complexities of human relations and their psychological dimensions, which I work through using second hand furniture in particular, chairs which they see as a fragment of society. The impetus for my works are personal, psychological and social experiences, with using the different stereotypes imposed on me from my won society and engage them to critique dominant norms and ideas of the social and notions of conformity, which is why I am interested in dealing with the private and controversial space of the home and the relationship between the group and the individual.

Flaws. Do they really make us repulsive? What is a tree bark to a tree or shape of a leave to plants? What nature would be if it were all identical? Bland and uncharacteristic.

Our imperfections does not make us broken.

Be bold.

Be You.

Since then, she is actively working in the visual art field as an artist, art director, and set designer. A variety of occupations broadened her will to experiment and brought various technical solutions into artistic practice.

An introverted nature brought her interest in presenting sensible and unseeable topics. She is talking through subtle ofter nature-based visuals as admiration for majestic and monumental state of nature. Besides that artist seeks to bring this traditional narrative into contemporary and conceptual context.

Main keywords: clean aesthetics, shape, the importance of process.

“Balance” is a mobile art piece. The title presents it quite literally because simplicity is the main key here. The work echos a natural rhythm by technically uncontrolled, but rather possibly interfered movement. The main structure and choice of colors simulate a “baby mobile”. The visually playful presentation presents a way to self-preservation and seeks to respond to the need for calm mesmerization instead of an active engagement. With infinite continuity comes a hypnotic sense that leads the viewer back to himself. The composition aspires to grant the viewer with the wawed-sea-like harmony. This way would by creating the collision between bizarre visuality and peaceful movement we have a synthetic inner harmony. Synthetically bright semi-transparent colors are shaped as biomorphic shapes, in order to allow the viewer to assimilate them with nature-based objects.

Education scholarship in 2018 and Independent artist scholarship in 2020, from Lithuania council of culture.
Held 6 personal ceramic exhibitions, participated in 40 group exhibitions in Lithuania and internationally. Created works in 6 symposiums: Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania.
Owner of Ceramic studio in Vilnius, where creates ceramic art and applied objects, also works with ceramic education for adults.

My work mostly relates to my own immediate personal experiences, combining scientific research and an intuitive creative process. For me what is most exciting is to merge new and unusual mediums and tools to create my work, mostly experimenting with organic natural materials. I see being an artist as a means to bring new perspectives, ideas into the collective consciousness. Learning, reading, examining, and researching are the ways I can stay in the constant flux of becoming anew, which I perceive especially important in the world we find ourselves today. So these works reflect these principles of active living, evolving and never being fully finished.

Held 6 personal ceramic exhibitions, participated in 40 group exhibitions in Lithuania and internationally. Created works in 6 symposiums: Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania.
Owner of Ceramic studio in Vilnius, where creates ceramic art and applied objects, also works with ceramic education for adults.

My works refer to natural forms. The mist rising above the grass from the lava bubbling under the ground, the texture of the broken stones, the moss and the roots of the trees became my source of inspiration. The reduced motifs are reflected in the created ceramic sculptures.

My work describes the flow of time on earth and the temporality of man and his cultural consequences in nature. I am interested in the tectonics of clay and earth, the way man perceives nature.

All work where created from Stoneware and fired in Japanese style kiln Anagama, witch creates magical fire and ash effects.

Austėja is an audiovisual artist who writes and translates texts, creates music, participates in projects in Lithuania and abroad, including the Lithuanian performance at the 58th Venice Biennial. Recently, she has participated in group exhibition “Whirlpools” at the VAA’s exhibition hall “Titanikas” in Vilnius.

Work “Nebenoriu” (“I Don’t Want It Anymore”) materializes from the contemplation of desires and the plasticity of matter. If one managed to lick through the gold, silver would be discovered; if time was overcome, only beeswax softening in one’s hands would remain. A half-eaten lollipop signifies an interruption of pleasurable actions, a simultaneous moment of dissolution and hardening.

Silver, gold, plastic
30 x 4 x 0.5 cm