Tadas Gutauskas - Tadas

CULTURE'S SIGNS IN SPACE
The expression of Tadas Gutauskas's ( TaDas ) work is universal in various areas of art, showing him to be a 21-th century artist for whom 'matter in space' is boundless. His bronze figurines created during the past decade clearly reveal this concept - with their peculiar, cultural signs, their compact silhouettes, their sensitive plasticity, and with the tracks of their deliberately significant dynamic molding. Their content of signs is reminiscent of archaic African and Latin American totemic remains, of ancient European cultures, of a Baltic world view,
and contemporary man's thought process. Meanwhile, his artistic characteristics are expressive, stormy with personal impressions, and filled with sensitivity towards nature and man. Having adopted the statics of archaic, sacral sculpture, the artist renders the figures dynamic by molding their surface with the impressionistic style.

( Art Critic, doctor of art research Nijolė Tumėnienė )


INCANTORY PAINTING
One could guess that Gutauskas's ( TaDas ) contemporary plasticity stimulates two circumstances - the aforementioned solidarity with the personal multitongued symbols and with the desire to break from traditional, canonized painting. Both moments...

1996 - The Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, Reykjavik

1995 - 1996 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Prof. Ann Edholm’s class, Stockholm

1995 - Salzburg Summer Academy, Prof. Hermann Nitsch’s class, Zalcburg

1989 - 1995 Vilnius Art Academy, Mindaugas Navakas sculpture class, M.F.A., Vilnius

1981 - 1988 M.K. Čiurlionis High School of the Arts, Vilnius


EMPLOYMENT

Since 2004 Member of Rotary club „ Perkūnas“, Vilnius

Since 2004 Minister for Culture of Užupis Republic

Since 2004 Established art gallery “ TaDas “

Since 2002 Curator of the International Symposium of sculpture“Curonian Art Week”

1999 - 2002 Teacher at G.Fledžinsienė’s College of Arts

Since 1999 Director of the public institution “ RIEDULIAI ”

1997 - 1999 Art expert in the Lithuanian Artists’ Association gallery

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2023 „The Ancestors of the Forms”, AP gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2022 Art Fair Art Vilnius‘ 22, Vilnius, Lithuania

2011 „ Unique collection of 13 Masks “, permanent exposition, M.K. Čiurlionis Devils Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania

2011 „ Lt Unique collection“, commission after wining International competition for official accessories for FIBA EUROPE 2011

2010 „ Coloured Sculptures “, Savickas gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2006 “ Form & Colour”, Consulat of Lithuania, New York, USA

2005 “ Sun of the North “, Target Gallery, Alexandria, Washington DC, USA

2004 New works, gallery TaDas, Vilnius, Lithuania

2003 Painting, Litexpo Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania

2003 Painting, sculpture, Etten Leur, Nedherlands

2003 TaDas, Opsteker Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2003 Painting, objects. Savickas Picture Gallery, Palanga, Lithuania
2003 TaDas, Vasby Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2003 Painting, sculpture, Lithuanian Art Museum, Chicago,USA

2003 The Sun of the Noth, Ciurlionis Art Gallery, Chicago,USA

2002 Painting, Gallery Cristiane Charles, Paris, France

2002 Painting, sculpture, show-rooms Charles-Tombolini, Paris, France

2002 Sound and vision installation “Four ways of life”, Vilnius, Lithuania

2001 “Perfect...