Natalie Levkovska

This year is the 9-th time “Open House Vilnius” is taking place. Every year, in spring there is an open architecture weekend, when a variety of buildings are open to the public, where volunteer guides lead excursions talking about the history of the house, its architect and the people associated with the place. It all happens to be very interesting. This weekend, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will open its doors to the public, where a group exhibition "Gyvūnų metai" / ”Year of the Animal” is being held, in which my works are also participating. The exhibition participants are A. Šemberaitė, Bražiūnas, N. Levkovska, curator of the exhibition - L. Liandzbergis.

Dear friends, I kindly invite you to visit my solo exhibition "Vėjo ošimas“/ “Wind rustle", which is taking place now at the Compensa Concert Hall, Vilnius. The exhibition features 25 paintings and drawings created over the last three years. The exhibition runs until 25 of February. Chin-chin! :)

Artists, for the most part, are individualists. Rarely one needs a team to create the product, except for large projects. For all their love of creating alone, artists sometimes join together in creative unions. This is how sculptors and stained-glass artists come together for technical reasons. Ceramicists also like to share a common workspace. And then there are communities of artists who are united not by technological processes, but by a desire to share philosophical and aesthetic values; or they are united by friendship. This exhibition brings together the Artworks of various currently active creative groups.

About 10 years ago, I joined a group of artists called the “Secret Society of Draughtsmen”/ “Slaptoji piešiančiųjų draugija”, who over the years had come together to draw professionally from life. At first the group was formed by people who had graduated from the Department of Monumental Painting, but gradually stained-glass artists, sculptors, graphic artists, designers, and architects joined it. Each with his own unique style of work, but all of us, I think, are united by a love of live drawing and a moral aesthetic attitude toward the beauty of the human body.

A very interesting and timely concept of the exhibition curated by Aistė Kisarauskaitė and supported by the Lithuanian Union of Artists /LDS/, bringing together many different creative groups. I am very happy that my work has been included in this exhibition, which is being held at the Panevezys Civic Art Gallery and is a general rehearsal for next year's Vilnius Quadrennial.

Exhibition of paintings and drawings “SILENT GARDEN" at the art gallery "Fojė", Trakai.

"My garden is made of roses, wild grasses, white rabbits running through cabbage blossoms, roots looking to the sky, my dreams and memories. A garden where past and present, fiction and reality are intricately combined, something that is inside but cannot be perceived until it manifests itself outside."

In this exhibition, the series of figurative drawings "Secret Garden" is combined with recent paintings dominated by plants.

I am delighted that this one of the most beloved drawings of mine has been chosen to grace the cover of French author Olivier Bruneau's latest “PHARMAKON” novel. 

Wishing the author of the book and the publishing house “LE TRIPODE” worldwide recognition and all the best.

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On February 24, I entered the studio, looked at the work I had begun, and sadly thought that all this was not important. Today it doesn't matter at all. A year ago, when I was planning this series of works, the issues of ecology of the surrounding world and individual existentialism seemed very significant and relevant. But war turns everything upside down and exposes other values such as peace, freedom and human dignity. It sounds like a poster in peacetime, but today, against the background of destroyed cities, millions of disturbed lives and numerous human losses, this becomes very important and basic, without which all other questions become just empty forms.

I believe that one day peace will come and one will begin to pay attention to issues of ecology and human existence.

In this series of works, I combined two topics that are important for me: the attitude towards nature as part of one's living space and the existential question of the individual personality.

In the cycle, I mix paintings with views of pines that protect the dunes from marine corrosion; views of flowering meadows with fragments of vintage sculptures drowning in flowers and photographs of garbage left in the forest, taken during walks in the nearest surroundings. When I stumble upon something like this, usually in very beautiful, picturesque corners of nature, I ask myself: where in human nature does the need to destroy the beautiful come from? When I think about it, I find a lot of suggestions, but perhaps one of the main answers is: “it will all be overgrown with grass over time.”

Which, in general, become an epigraph for this exhibition: “in the end everything will be grass again”.

The opening of the 10th annual group exhibition of drawings. More than 25 artists, united under the name of the "Secret Society of Draftsmen" presented their work to the audience. Happy to be part of it!

One of the nice gifts from last year was this small-sized book "Watergang" by French author Mario Alonso. Many thanks to the publishing house le Tripode for choosing one of my favorite paintings “Baltic Sea” as the cover for this wonderful book. I wish them great worldwide recognition.

Artist Natalie Levkovska in her studio is getting ready for the group exhibition of drawings of the „Society of Secret Draftsman”. This autumn we are starting in Mažeikiai!

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Artist's studio.

“Indian Summer”, oil/canvas, 160x110 cm (63x43’) 2021, cycle “Run, rabbit run!”

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Sharing great news! First post-quarantine art event “Art Compensa” is coming. Please find me at my stand. Meet you there 😊

https://artcompensa.com/apie/

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