Rytis Konstantinavicius

My first meeting with ceramics took place in 1984. Ceramics has always been so fascinating for me that I cannot imagine my life without it. Painting absorbed me much later, however it became as important as ceramics.
Ceramics snd painting will stay with me till the end of my life. I am doing my best to be honest in my artistic creation. I want to and have to be honest. Only then I will be happy...
As regards painting, I perceive it as an artistic manifestation that exists in parallel to the one discussed above. I make an attempt to combine those two disciplines, to merge them and thus prove that they are interdependent and inseparable (at least for myself). The issue of transformation of painting into spatial creations is explored as part of searching for individual interpretations of formal relationships between ceramic material and the painting medium. I also address the questions that I raise in easel painting and artistic ceramics: connections between colors, textures and forms of painting expression as such, not only in easel images, but also in sculptural works, wherein it is achieved through unique conditions of unconventional firing processes.

2021- PhD in Art and Art Conservation
2016-2022 Profesor asistant Academy of Art and Designe in Wrocław
2014- Master degree Academy of Art and Designe in Wrocław
2010 - 2012 Leading ceramic workshops for pupils with learning and autistic Primary School No. 75 in Wroclaw, Poland
2008 - 2009 Teaching ceramic - MDK "Anima" Wrocław
2008 - Member of Artist Company “Decentrism” in Poland
2007 - Member of the Association "LDK" - " Lithuanian Artists Company", Poland
2003 - Member of the Union of Artists: "Polish Applied Arts", Poland
since 1997 Authors Artistic Workshop in Poland
1985-1988 Vocational Secondary School No. 6 in Vilnius
1983-1984 Vocational Art School No. 52 in Kaunas, Lithuania

Solo exhibitions:

1. "Daj, acz ja pobruszę, a ty poczywaj", Exhibition of paintings and ceramic sculptures, Mała Gallery, Józef Chełmowski Secondary Art School in Nałęczów city, September 8 - October 6, 2022, Poland
2. Exhibition of the doctoral dissertation " Daj, acz ja pobruszę, a ty poczywaj ", Gallery "Neon, Academy of Fine Arts, Traugutta Street 19, Wrocław city, 01-14.06.21, Poland
3. "Structurally", Cyrulik, Włodkowica Street, Wrocław city, August 31, 2019, Poland
4. "Places undefined III", presentation of a collection of ceramic sculptures and paintings, Galeriezet, Olomouc city, 08.06..2019, Czech Republic
5. "Undefined Places II", presentation of the collection of ceramic sculptures and paintings, WL4 Gallery, Mleczny Piotr, Gdańsk city, 14.06.2019, Poland
6. "Producer of more and more unnecessary things, presentation of a collection of ceramic sculptures and paintings, Cyrulik, Włodkowica 19, Wrocław city, 04/03/2017, Poland
7. "Body, structure, lines", presentation of the collection of ceramic sculptures, during the International Art Fair Craft Vilnius 16, Town Hall, Vilnius city, 24.11.2016, Lithuania
8. "Ceramic sculpture and painting", presentation of the collection of ceramic sculptures and painti...