BioGRAFY
name Martynas Gediminas
date of birth 21.11.1974
address Kauno 36, LT-03202 Vilnius
phone +370 686 40824
email martynas.gediminas@gmail.com
e-gallery martynasgediminas.art
Languages Lithuanian (native), Russian (C1), English (B1)
EDUCATION
1997 - 1999 Textile Art and Design MA, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania.
1993 - 1997 Textile Art and Design BA, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania.
1995 - internship - creative internship under bilateral exchange at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, United Kingdom.
Solo exhibitions
2022 TOGETHER, NILE ART GALLERY, Cairo, Egypt.
2021 LINKĖJIMAI (WISHES), Gallery ARKA, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2021 RAUDONA (RED), Antakalnio Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2021 FRAGMENTAS II (FRAGMENT II), Vilnius University Botanical Garden, Kairenai, Lithuania.
2020 FRAGMENTAS (FRAGMENT), Antakalnio Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2019 CITATOS (QUOTES), Gallery 555, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2018 AŠTUONI. SVAJONĖS ATSPINDŽIAI (EIGHT. REFLECTIONS OF A DREAM), Vilnius Academy of Arts textile gallery Artifex, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Exhibitions, plein airs
2020 IX Lithuanian Biennial of Textile Art "Riba # 30", Gallery ARKA, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2019 SEPTYNIOS ISTORIJOS GABRIELEI, Vilnius Academy of Arts textile gallery ARTIFEX, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2019 International Painting Plein Air CARPE DIEM, Balatonszarszo, Hungary. 2018 Earth and Environmental Art Exhibition RYŠIAI (CONNECTIONS), Vilnius University Botanical Garden, Kairenai, Lithuania.
1999 2nd KAUNAS BIENNIAL – International Textile Exhibition LINIJA (LINE), Kaunas, Lithuania.
Work experience
2018 - UAB TYGELIS PAKUOJA Ltd., director
1998 - 2021 TYGELIS Ltd., director
Creative Guidelines
Vilnius Academy of Arts textile art and design studies coded the issues of materiality and color, form of intuitive abstraction actualized in current paintings.
Martynas Gediminas (b. 1974) has a master’s degree in textile art and design from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. In his work, he pays a lot of attention to the overlapping surface textures, materiality and rhythmic structure. Recently, working mainly in the field of painting, he has been layering his works with large strokes focusing on bright-colored abstract compositions. A certain impression of moderate pauses is maintained between the intensities of colors on the canvas. The artist experiments a lot. He levels the tactility of acrylic paint and hides it under the printing ink then presses it, paints over it again, foils it and adds various metals, as if destroying any trace of color and refining the variability of the visible image, which depends on the point of view and the trajectory of the gaze that creates it. The artist doesn’t glorify or take care of the painting surface, but rather boldly provokes the work itself to unfold before the viewer’s eyes with extremely authentic and distinctive features.