VYTAUTAS TOMAŠEVIČIUS

In 1989 Vytautas Tomaševičius graduated from Vilnius J. Vienožinskis Art School and in 1998 he graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, majoring in painting and scenography. Since 2008 he is a member of the Union of Lithuanian Artists. Vytautas Tomaševičius has been participating in exhibition activities since 1995. He organized over 20 personal exhibitions in Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden and participated in several dozen group exhibitions in Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Italy, Japan. The artist is being currently represented by the Geraldine Banier gallery in Paris. In 2008 the artist was awarded with the laureate diploma of the 1st Baltic Art Biennale (St. Petersburg, Russia). In 2010 and in 2018 was awarded the scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania. In 2019, he won the prize for excellence at the international competition in Japan “ArtOlympia”. About 1,800 artists from more than 100 countries submitted more than 5,000 works to the competition. Of these, the international commission awarded the prize “For excellence” to only 30 paintings. Vytautas Tomaševičius is the first Lithuanian artist to be awarded this prize.

The works of Vytautas Tomaševičius are appreciated for the original author’s technique. It combines painting and graphics. A monochrome print of the design is pressed onto the carefully painted image. Later, this drawing is partially erased, revealing the hidden lower layer of the painting. In different paintings, the relationship between painting and print varies, sometimes they are simply left to compete. Such a technique is identified by the author and critics as a metaphor for the relationship between the inner and outer worlds and the worlds of culture and nature. The paintings usually depict fragments of figures or natural motifs combined with ornamental or abstract forms. V. Tomaševičius’s paintings are full of “quotes” from old photographs or film frames, as well as fragments of nature, portraits of people, modern and ancient symbols. Common themes of femininity, nature. The paintings are decorative, multi-layered, often with restrained color.