DISTANT NEAR, NEAR DISTANT, an exhibition of watercolors by Rytas Jurgelis

On July 7th at 7 PM, we invite you to the opening evening of the watercolor exhibition DISTANT NEAR, NEAR DISTANT by Rytas Jurgelis. The event is free.

The work of Rytas Jurgelis is known not for its plot or declared position, but for the special inner state it creates. Critics who have written about his painting – from Vidas Poškus, who saw antique, Heraclean-monumental constructions in it, to Rolandas Rastauskas, who spoke of R. Jurgelis's "maps of consciousness" and the square as a spiritual homestead, and finally to today's reviewers, who call his paintings a "silent world" – have grasped the same core quality from different sides: R. Jurgelis's painting never tries to meet the viewer loudly. It waits. Its structural foundation – the square, the rectangle, a static, almost architectural form – always hides an opposing force within itself: color, which moves and breathes within that form, speaking of time, memory, and light as an internal, not physical, category. In his paintings, a person is never depicted directly – neither as a figure nor as a portrait – but their presence is constantly felt as a trace, as a memory, as something that has already passed but has not yet disappeared. Simultaneously distant and near.

(excerpt from a text by Karolina Kupstaitė)

Rytas Jurgelis (b. 1961) is a Lithuanian painter and watercolorist. Since 1986, he has participated in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad (Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, etc.). Since 1995, he has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association. R. Jurgelis's works have been acquired by private collectors in Lithuania, the USA, Australia, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.

The exhibition will be on display from July 7th to August 2nd. Visiting requires a ticket.

Ticket price: The opening event is free. During regular hours, the ticket for adults is 3 EUR, for students and seniors 2 EUR, and free for schoolchildren, people with disabilities, media representatives, and Ukrainians.