Marija Švažienė
July 12, 2024 / August 7, 2024
TExtile
Although exhibitions of hand-tied tapestries are by no means a common event in Lithuanian galleries, the Baroti Gallery is organizing the exhibition of Marija Švažienė's tapestries for the third time. The well-known textile artist, painter, who has exhibited her works in Lithuania and the world, is exhibiting her latest works at the exhibition, which will been open from July 12th. Marija Švažienė's authorship of the first three-dimensional tapestries created in Lithuania in the 1970s can be considered the first swallows, followed by a young generation of textile artists inspired by Švažienė's experiments and the artist's own quests. She denied the functional purpose of the tapestry and ultimately led the artist to the field of artistic reflections of the planets, the primary structures of the Universe, no longer connected with the ethnographic, folk-art traditions of Lithuanian textile past. With more than fifty years of experience, Švažienė's level of mastery of her craft can, without any hyperbolization, also be compared to the flight of the highest pilotage, which allows the artist, it seems, to realize all the visions of her philosophical reflections without any difficulty. The artist combines three-dimensional and flat forms with bright, painting-like colors and their most delicate tones, creating compositions of combinations of both real and decorative forms. Combining expressive drawing with rich, emotionally evocative color, Švažienė's tapestries become both artistically suggestive works and such works that make us think about the eternal secrets of the structure of being, from which both the source of the artist's creativity and the intellectual and emotional captures of the viewers who see them come.
Dr. Dalia Karatajene
The project is partially financed by Klaipėda city municipality
