Darius Laumenis
DARIUS LAUMENIS is a young Lithuanian artist in residence in Marseille.
His work links at the same time, painting (large and small formats), engraving, photography, reportage, sculpture, experimentation and "manipulations and installations".
The weight of the “pictorial tradition” of his country (attachment in particular to
"The icon") will sometimes interfere with his work. As soon as he arrived at the Beaux-Arts, his objective was to escape the “grip” of a certain “academicism” and quickly integrate a more conceptual dimension into his plastic research.
His studies at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille accelerated the learning and assimilation of this conceptual dimension so necessary for the narration and the evolution of his work. The duality, between the abstract and the figurative, the rational and the irrational, remains in spite of everything very marked in Darius' work.
There was no radical break in his research, the icon has changed, it has mutated. It was probably a painful passage, but it was mastered (Darius does not deny his origins). He is aware that these confrontations and these collisions provide him with conceptual material, and that this conflicting relationship between the rational figure and the irrational figure is his source of questioning, the heart of his work and his positioning. And it is on the strength of these experiences, but still heckled by this conflict, that he presents his latest work today.
Large uncompromising paintings, irrational, impulsive, charged with emotion, where form has been refined, where meaning and perception have succeeded the icon, the subject and the scenario. He manages to appeal to our senses and leaves us free in the face of interpretation and appropriation, he delivers us an unexpected, organic, chromatic universe.
These are series that he presents to us in his studio, his large paintings surround us and speak to us and, in these times it seems difficult for painting, it is a real happiness.
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Midle size "Latinos" • 10 artworks
View allMidle size "Mediterraneos" • 17 artworks
View allvoué à l'expérimentation autour des rythmes et de la couleur.
Les moyens formats, sur toiles ou sur papier, peint à l'huile,
à la gouache ou avec d'autres «mixtures», forment eux des séries
qui puisent leurs contenus généralement dans les croquis
des carnets de voyage. Des fragments que l'artiste manipule,
«recycle» pour en obtenir des formes nouvelles, des figures neuves
qui inspireront peut-être, là aussi une grande toile. L'accumulation
en est un conducteur et donne lieu à ces séries où se jouxtent
plusieurs dizaines de dessins et là curieusement un enjeu apparaît
des questions se posent des conflits naissent entre les éléments,
les formes et les couleurs, des choix s'imposent rationnels ou non.
Un travail préparatoire, «pédagogique» qui procure à l'artiste
des alternatives un cheminement, il avance !
Midle size "sold pictures" • 10 artworks
View allDifferent sizes "big" • 17 artworks
View allbig size • 16 artworks
View allPHOTOS • 10 artworks
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Biography
DARIUS LAUMENIS is a young Lithuanian artist in residence in Marseille.
His work links at the same time, painting (large and small formats), engraving, photography, reportage, sculpture, experimentation and "manipulations and installations".
The weight of the “pictorial tradition” of his country (attachment in particular to
"The icon") will sometimes interfere with his work. As soon as he arrived at the Beaux-Arts, his objective was to escape the “grip” of a certain “academicism” and quickly integrate a more conceptual dimension into his plastic research.
His studies at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille accelerated the learning and assimilation of this conceptual dimension so necessary for the narration and the evolution of his work. The duality, between the abstract and the figurative, the rational and the irrational, remains in spite of everything very marked in Darius' work.
There was no radical break in his research, the icon has changed, it has mutated. It was probably a painful passage, but it was mastered (Darius does not deny his origins). He is aware that these confrontations and these collisions provide him with conceptual material, and that this conflicting relationship between the rational figure and the irrational figure is his source of questioning, the heart of his work and his positioning. And it is on the strength of these experiences, but still heckled by this conflict, that he presents his latest work today.
Large uncompromising paintings, irrational, impulsive, charged with emotion, where form has been refined, where meaning and perception have succeeded the icon, the subject and the scenario. He manages to appeal to our senses and leaves us free in the face of interpretation and appropriation, he delivers us an unexpected, organic, chromatic universe.
These are series that he presents to us in his studio, his large paintings surround us and speak to us and, in these times it seems difficult for painting, it is a real happiness.
- Nationality: FRANCE
- Date of birth : unknown date
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- Groups: Contemporary French Artists
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DARIUS LAUMENIS est un jeune artiste Lituanien en résidence à Marseille.
Son travail lie à la fois, la peinture (les grands et les petits formats), la gravure, la photographie, le reportage, la sculpture, l'expérimentation et les «manipulations et installations».
Le poids de la « tradition picturale» de son pays (attachement notamment à
«l'icône») vont parfois parasiter son travail. Son objectif dès son arrivée aux Beaux-Arts, a été d'échapper à «l'emprise» d'un certain «académisme» et de rapidement intégrer à ses recherches plastiques une dimension plus conceptuelle.
Son cursus à l'école des Beaux-arts de Marseille a accéléré l'apprentissage et l'assimilation de cette dimension conceptuelle si nécessaire à la narration et à l'évolution de son travail. La dualité, entre l'abstrait et le figuratif, le rationnel et l'irrationnel reste malgré tout très marquer dans le travail de Darius.
Il n'y a pas eu de rupture radicale dans ses recherches, l'icône s'est transformée, elle a mutée. Cela a été un passage probablement douloureux, mais maîtrisé, (Darius ne renie pas ses origines). Il est conscient que ces affrontements et ces colisions lui fournissent une matière conceptuelle, et que cette relation conflictuelle entre la figure rationnelle et la figure irrationnelle est sa source d'interrogation, le cour de son travail et de son positionnement. Et c'est fort de ces expériences, mais toujours chahuté par ce conflit, qu'il présente aujourd'hui ses derniers travaux.
De grandes peintures sans compromis, irrationnelles, impulsives, chargées d'émotions, où la forme s'est épurée, ou le sens et la perception ont succédé à l'icône, au sujet et au scénario. Il parvient à solliciter nos sens et nous laisse libres face à l'interprétation et l'appropriation, il nous livre un univers inattendu, organique, chromatique.
Ce sont des séries qu'il nous présente dans son atelier, ses grandes peintures nous encerclent et nous parlent et, en ces temps semble-t-il difficile pour la peinture, c'est un vrai bonheur.