Herman Drowning

Hermandrowning – multidisciplinary artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania
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The point of attention in creative process is the quest for new forms and a deformation of existent ones with an aim to render contemporary subject’s search of identity.
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Steady work in offices dealing with creative solutions and an observation of environment within them allowed me to form a certain conception about the relation between man and his environment, including other subjects. I see it mutating into a process of trade of abstractions and symbols, while the details of reality lying beyond become rejected, vanishing. Plot is constructed by using primitivistic shapes to describe mundane acts. In the workplace there are neither flowers or items, nor full bodies, a movie is described as work of a famous director whose name one is unable to recall, yet there was a car in it. Subject is like transparent and some surroundings are missing, visible body parts become emotionally distorted.
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Maneouvreing within these levels of experience with the practice of painting, making objects and creating music compositions I seek to find the boundaries where the details, part of reality begin to dissolve. Here the darkness and chaos prevalent within collective ...

2007 – 2010

Bachelor degree in graphic design and visual communication Vilnius College of Technologies and Design

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019

2019 01 – 2019 02 | Group exhibition BOB (Bad Old Baudelaire) POP gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2018

2018 05 03 – 06 10 | Group exhibition GOB (Good Old Baudelaire - Blackout paintings, Animal Strauss, Herman Drowning) Grafo gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2018 05 23 – 06 27 | Visual Art Exhibition'18 / ROOTS, Gallery space Aqui Base Tango, Coimbra, Portugal

2018 04 28 | Golden Burger – Installation, Painting performance – RAIZVANGUARDA - Associação Cultural, Gois, Portugal

2017

2017 09 16 – 10 05 | Malamegi Lab 8 Art Contest Exhibition, Loft Gallery Spazio matEr, Rome, Italy. WINNER New Collection Prize.