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Founding of New York’s SoHo to be Featured in Vilnius Exhibition
George Maciunas, architect and visionary founder of the Fluxus art movement, conceived the idea of establishing cooperative buildings in New York where people could freely work and create. Rare documents, structural maps and correspondence with officials detail the excruciating process he underwent to legalize SoHo that transformed the entire downtown area. Visual works by renowned Fluxus artists Shigeko Kubota and Larry Miller will be shown along with those of filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins and photographer Peter Moore. First-person interviews and historical footage will complement the exhibition. A special Guest of Honor will be the legendary avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a close co-worker with George Maciunas during the early period of the creation of SoHo. A quartet of videos by Mr. Mekas will be shown, as well as a work by his daughter, Oona Mekas. “The SoHo phenomenon was an important creative initiative that made a significant impact on social urban development in New York. It is compelling in its grand scope and should be appreciated by both a local Lithuanian audience as well as an international one”, stated Mr. Arturas Zuokas, founder of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center. The publication of “Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo” by authors Roslyn Bernstein and Shael Shapiro will be celebrated at the opening. Hundreds of artists, including Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, John Lennon, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Andy Warhol were drawn to the building by Jonas Mekas’ Cinematheque and showed their work in and around it. In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Deputy Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, John Hatfield, will give a series of lectures highlighting the effects and significance of cultural neighborhoods on the economic, social and political life of a city. His main presentation in Vilnius will be at the “Ministry of Fluxus”, a new venue containing studios, galleries and performance areas for avant-garde artists. The exhibition is being hosted by the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, the Jonas Mekas Foundation and The American Center and will run through September 1st. Major corporate sponsors of the exhibition are “Akropolis”, “Ukio Bankas”, “Ranga Group” and “LAWIN”. Contacts: Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299,
Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 FACT SHEET 05/18/10 - MINISTRY OF FLUXUS
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA SEEKS TO BECOME CAPITAL OF FLUXUS CONCEPT AND OBJECTIVE: Vilnius, Lithuania has declared itself the international capital of Fluxus art in the 21st Century and to that end has established a Ministry of Fluxus. Young artists in Lithuania have chosen this innovative intervention to establish an environment conducive to unhindered creative expression.
PARTICIPANTS: Over two hundred artists, sculptors, musicians, photographers, actors and creative spirits have begun producing provocative works of art at the Ministry of Fluxus with an invitation to view the world through the prism of the previously unknown and unexpected. The Ministry of Fluxus follows in the footsteps of Lithuanian-American George Maciunas, a founder of the Fluxus movement in New York in the 1960s.
VENUE: Former premises of the Ministry of Health of Lithuania located at 27 Gedimino Prospect, the main street of downtown Vilnius. The run-down and abandoned building was cleaned up by artists and their friends and has been transformed into an unconventional space for creativity, symbolically changing a building that focused on curing an ailing body into one that will cure the soul.
OPENING EVENTS: On April 23rd, thousands of young Lithuanians with friends from Europe, Asia and the United States turned out to celebrate the opening of the Ministry of Fluxus. A number of completed works of art, sculpture and installations were presented along with live music and other performances. On April 24th, following a long-standing Fluxus tradition of looking to the East for inspiration, an exhibition by Japanese artists was opened and followed by a concert by the Japanese group “Gothika”.
FACILITIES: The Ministry of Fluxus acts as an “Arts Incubator” and contains artists’ studios as well as gallery areas. The “e-Mekas Cinema Center” (named in honor of legendary filmmaker and Fluxus artist Jonas Mekas) exists side by side with smaller film screening halls and performance spaces. There is a “City of Future Lab” on the rooftop and a skate-boarding club in the basement. A ground-floor wine and water bar is named “The Hospital”.
INTERNATIONAL DIVERSITY: Artists from other countries will find a hospitable space at the Ministry of Fluxus to create and display their work. There are a limited amount of hostel facilities available for short-term visitors.
INITIATOR: Mr. Arturas Zuokas, the innovative former Mayor of Vilnius conceived the project and is the main driving force behind it.
DURATION: The Ministry of Fluxus is a temporary one-year project.
WEB INFO: Facebook: “Fluxus Ministerija”
CONTACT INFORMATION: Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 or Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299
FACT SHEET 05/18/10 – “GEORGE MACIUNAS: FATHER OF SOHO”
NEW EXHIBITION TO OPEN IN VILNIUS ON JUNE 1ST
An exhibition “George Maciunas: Father of SoHo” will open to the public on June 1st in Vilnius, Lithuania, a city that seeks to become the new capital of Fluxus art in the 21st Century. The exhibition, which will run until September 1st, will feature rare documents, structural maps and correspondence between George Maciunas and the New York City government, relaying the intricacies of developing a project of such magnitude. VENUE: Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center at 14 Gyneju St., Vilnius, Lithuania.
GEORGE MACIUNAS: A Lithuanian-American architect and visionary founder of the Fluxus art movement, Maciunas conceived the idea of establishing a series of cooperative buildings in New York to provide a viable place for people to freely work and create. He undertook the role of developer for these projects and for this he is generally recognized as the founder of SoHo - both as an actual place and a state of mind. Maciunas went through an excruciating process to legalize the SoHo area that many avant-garde artists came to consider their home and scores of others perceived as a Mecca for viewing and experiencing cutting-edge art. Maciunas’ efforts resulted in the transformation of the entire downtown area of New York and also led to the creation of TriBeCa. Two years after his death, SoHo became and remains one of the most fashionable areas of downtown New York with many high-end stores, boutiques and restaurants.
SOHO COLLECTION: The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (JMVAC) of the City of Vilnius has in its holdings an important collection of Maciunas’ Fluxus art as well as extensive archival documents. A selection of this material will be on view during the exhibition. Mr.Arturas Zuokas, founder of the JMVAC, stresses the enormous impact that Lithuanian American Maciunas had on the social urban development of New York and the significance of the exhibition in opening to public view documents that detail Maciunas’ grand-scale of thought and vision.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS: Visual works by internationally renowned Fluxus artists Shigeko Kubota and Larry Miller will be shown along with those of filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins and photographer Peter Moore. First-person interviews and historical footage will complement the exhibition.
SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOR: Legendary avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a close co-worker of Maciunas’ during the early period of the creation of SoHo will attend a VIP preview of the exhibition on May 29th.
MAJOR CORPORATE SPONSORS: Akropolis, Ukio Bankas, Ranga Group and LAWIN
WEB INFO: www.mekas.lt
CONTACT INFORMATION: Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 or Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299
FACT SHEET – 05/18/10 NEW BOOK : “ILLEGAL LIVING”
Illegal Living is the biography of a building that reveals the life of Fluxus and tells the story of 80 Wooster Street, the first successful artists’ cooperative located in the area of New York City now known as SoHo. Reborn after seven decades of life as a manufacturing building, it assumed a vibrant new identity when it became the headquarters for George Maciunas, founder of the avant-garde art movement, Fluxus. Maciunas bought the building in 1967 and transformed it into Fluxhouse Cooperative No. II, the first of sixteen live-work coop loft buildings with which he was involved.
The building became a hub for art-world events. Jonas Mekas’ Cinematheque was based there, as was Anthology Film Archives. Yoko Ono and John Lennon created and executed many projects in the building. Dancer Trisha Brown, Fluxus artist, Robert Watts, artist Charles Ross and Director Richard Foreman lived and/or worked there. Philip Glass had the first performance of his own work in the ground floor space.
Drawing upon original photographs, archival papers, and architectural floor plans, and relying upon in-depth interviews with artists and activists, Illegal Living closely examines the history of 80 Wooster Street, in so doing illuminating the evolution of SoHo as an arts community.
AUTHORS: Roslyn Bernstein is a professor of journalism and creative writing at Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She also teaches feature writing at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Her book, Boardwalk Stories appeared in 2009. Bernstein has published news and feature articles, catalogue essays and opinion pieces on education, neighborhood development, media, culture and the arts for such publications as the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Parents, Contemporanea, Artnews, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Buzzine.com.
Shael Shapiro is an architect who was a pioneer in SoHo. George Maciunas consulted with him about architectural matters for 80 Wooster Street and other buildings. In 1971 at the height of the Fluxus movement, Shapiro assisted Maciunas in the production of a Yoko Ono/John Lennon museum show, and he then worked for Lennon and Ono for over a year. Shapiro specializes in the adaptive reuse of buildings and was the architect for the PS1 artist studios and museum in Queens, New York which opened in 1976. The Downtown Collection of the Fales Library at New York University has acquired Shapiro’s personal papers relating to the development of SoHo and the conversion of loft buildings.
PUBLISHER: The book Illegal Living is being published in Vilnius, Lithuania by the Jonas Mekas Foundation and is tied into the opening of the exhibition “George Maciunas: Father of SoHo” at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius, Lithuania which will open on June 1st at 14 Gyneju St. and run until September 1st. CONTACT INFORMATION: Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 or Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299
FACT SHEET – 05/18/10
LECTURE SERIES BY JOHN HATFIELD IN LITHUANIA
Mr. John Hatfield, the Deputy Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, will present a series of lectures on May 27-29 in Lithuania on the effects and significance of cultural neighborhoods on the economic, social and political life of a city. BACKGROUND: John Hatfield, an arts administrator for over twenty years in New York City, has firsthand knowledge of downtown Manhattan’s cultural development and planning. He has worked at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in several capacities since 1992 and currently serves as Deputy Director. He is responsible for the management of museum operations as well as for managing real estate development and city and state relations. In 2002, Mr. Hatfield served as Assistant Vice President, Memorial, Cultural & Civic Programs for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation where he worked to ensure the successful implementation of all plans and processes related to the selection and creation of a memorial to the events of September 11, 2001 and the cultural development of the World Trade Center site.
TOPIC: Mr. Hatfield will discuss how neighborhoods in cities become cultural destinations and the main ingredients of a successful cultural district i.e. intellectual capital, real estate development, infrastructure and opportunity. A main topic will be the overview of SoHo’s transformation and evolution over the last thirty years into more of a commercial destination rather than a cultural one. Mr. Hatfield will also take a look at the coming into being of new cultural districts in New York City such as Chelsea and the Lower East Side which is the new location of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. International models such as Bilbao, Spain and Berlin, Germany will be touched upon.
DATES AND VENUES: A presentation will be made to key urban planners and cultural decision-makers in the Vilnius Municipal government on May 27th. The presentation will be repeated on May 28th in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania to Kaunas municipal officials. A keynote speaking engagement will take place on May 29th at the newly opened avant-garde arts incubator in the capital city of Vilnius called The Ministry of Fluxus located at 27 Gedimino Prospect that will be open to the public.
HOSTS: Mr. Hatfield will be in Lithuania at the invitation of The American Center. His lecture series is tied into the opening of the exhibition “George Maciunas: Father of SoHo” at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius, Lithuania that will open on June 1st at 14 Gyneju St. and run until September 1st.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 or Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299 Please find the pictures for press: http://www.mekas.lt/press/JMVAC_Map.jpg http://www.mekas.lt/press/FM_Map.jpg http://www.mekas.lt/press/cover.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/soho.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/soho2.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/soho3.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/soho4.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/1006.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/3004.jpeg
“BEYOND THE SCREEN” – AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY EUGENE VARKALIS
“BEYOND THE SCREEN” – AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY EUGENE VARKALIS The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (Gyneju str. 14, Vilnius) will open “Beyond the Screen”, an exhibition of artwork by Eugene Varkalis on July 14th at 18:00. The exhibition reflects the creative shifts and changes of the artist during the time period of 1984 until 2009 in painting, drawing, collages, music and film as well as found objects. The exhibition includes a series of paintings from his earlier work depicting the Stations of the Cross in an Expressionist style that were painted in Samogitia, Berzore and Sarnele in 1983-1989. From 1994-2005 Varkalis lived in New York and, inspired by his good friend and renowned avant garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, immersed himself in experimental cinema, filmed himself, participated in happenings, alternative film festivals, exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris, Saint Petersburg. He also created musical scores for the films of Jonas Mekas and Julius Zis, illustrated Jonas Mekas’ books “My Nights” and “Words and Letters”. Varkalis often stresses the relationship between painting, film and music when describing his work. His paintings will be exhibited alongside of his experimental hand-made films from the series “The Cinema Without Camera” that were created in New York. Also on view will be films made in Lithuania that inspired his paintings and depict the flowing water of the Nemunas and Neris rivers, the water of Lithuanian lakesides and floating ice. Painting comprises the largest and most important part of Varkalis’ work. Large scale abstracts (150 x 200 cm) are composed of flowing acrylic paint, ink, wine, coffee and tea. The beginnings of poetic improvisation that dominate the works contain an abundance of allusion to the semantics of water: water as a metaphor for transience, spontaneity, constant change, cleansing and the sacred. The exhibition will be on view until August 21st.
Construction of a new museum in Vilnius approved by he government of Lithuania
The museum will be designed by Zaha Hadid and is to open in 2013. “This is an important project, in a move to attract tourists to Lithuania,” Gediminas Kirkilas, the country’s prime minister, told reporters. “It is also important to Lithuania’s image.” The estimated value of the project, shown above in a rendering, is $117 million, with the Lithuanian government to pay 10 to 15 percent of the total. The museum will build its own collection and display art from the Hermitage and the Guggenheim. Arturas Zuokas, a former mayor of Vilnius who is an organizer of the project, said the museum could draw 400,000 visitors a year, half of them from outside Lithuania.
ZAHA HADID WINS COMPETITION TO DEVELOP DESIGN FOR PROPOSED MUSEUM IN VILNIUS
ZAHA HADID WINS COMPETITION TO DEVELOP DESIGN FOR PROPOSED MUSEUM IN VILNIUS
VILNIUS, Lithuania – April 8, 2008 – A jury of six members today announced that Zaha Hadid, London, has won the architectural competition to develop a design for a proposed museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. The architectural competition is part of a feasibility study undertaken by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The State Hermitage Museum. The directors of both institutions participated in the jury selection process.
In addition to Zaha Hadid Daniel Liebeskind, New York, and Massimilliano Fuksas, Rome, submitted designs for the proposed project.
"The creation of the new center of contemporary and media art in Vilnius would be an important phenomenon in European cultural life,” said Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum. “We are honored that The State Hermitage Museum is participating in such a significant undertaking. The project in Vilnius would be an excellent complement to the programme we have recently developed exhibiting contemporary art at the Hermitage".
Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas said, “Lithuania has set its sights on becoming a premier international center of art. We can think of no better institutions -- The State Hermitage and the Guggenheim Foundation -- to help guide us in this project. Their participation on our jury has led to selecting Zaha Hadid to design the new venue, which we believe will best enable our capital city of Vilnius to achieve this goal.”
An exhibition organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, entitled “Imagining the Future: Design Proposals for a New Museum in Vilnius” will open to the public on April 10th at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius and will allow visitors to view the works of all three architects who competed for the project.
To download press images of Zaha Hadid winning design, as well as the designs of Daniel Liebeskind and Massimilliano Fuksas visit ftp://ftp.mekas.lt. Enter user name media@mekas.lt and password, “press”.
Zaha Hadid
Was born in Baghdad in 1950 and studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London. Following her graduation in 1977, she became a partner in the avant-garde Office for Metropolitan Architecture in London and two years later she opened an independent practice, Zaha Hadid Architects. Through this London-based firm, Hadid’s artistic vision is being transformed into architectural masterpieces worldwide. In 2004, Hadid won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, making her the first (and thus far, the only) woman to have earned this prestigious award. Other significant honors include being named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Commander of the British Empire. She has held chairs and professorships at institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, and the Hochschule für Bildende Künst Hamburg. Hadid has participated in several research-based competitions, winning awards for urban master plans and building designs in countries as diverse as China, Malaysia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
The Architectural Competition and Jury
The architectural competition is part of a study to explore the feasibility, from an architectural, economic, and cultural perspective, of establishing a world-class museum in Vilnius. The study includes programming recommendations for the proposed museum and a market study and economic impact analysis. The museum site is located in a large public green space on the banks of the Neris River, centrally located between the old and new centers of the city.
The feasibility study was commissioned by the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, a public establishment founded by the city of Vilnius. The study is being conducted by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The State Hermitage Museum. An international consulting firm was engaged to conduct the market study and economic impact analysis. An international engineering firm performed the site analysis and provided detailed technical analyses for the three competing designs. It is anticipated that the study will be completed in the summer of 2008.
Thomas Krens, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Foundation said, “Ever since our first meeting, I have been continually impressed with the determination of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center and city officials to put Vilnius on the world’s cultural map. The extraordinary Fluxus collection of the Mekas Center would provide a strong foundation for a world-class museum focusing on contemporary and new media art. Selecting an internationally renowned architect to design the museum is the first critical step in realizing this ambitious project. The Guggenheim is delighted to lend its guidance and expertise in this process.”
The jury that selected the winning design was comprised of the following members:
Mikhail Piotrovsky – Director of the State Hermitage Museum
Thomas Krens – Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Peter Schmal – Director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Gediminas Kirkilas – Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
Juozas Imbrasas – Mayor of the City of Vilnius
Gintaras Caikauskas – Vice-Chairman of the Architects’ Association of Lithuania
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center
The City Council of Vilnius, Lithuania established the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (JMVAC) on February 19, 2007. The mission of the JMVAC is to promote the avant-garde along all avenues to diverse audiences. JMVAC’s permanent collection concentrates on two of Lithuania’s most prolific artists: distinguished avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas and George Maciunas, impresario and “Chairman” of the international Fluxus art movement. This collection will form the core of the new museum.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation currently administers a global network of museums and exhibition spaces around the world. These are the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; and the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas. The Guggenheim Foundation is also building a new museum, designed by Frank Gehry, in Abu Dhabi, scheduled for completion in 2012-2013.
The State Hermitage Museum
With partnering institutions in five countries, the State Hermitage Museum has one of the world’s largest and most encyclopedic art collections numbering more than three million objects. Recently, the Hermitage launched a new initiative Hermitage 20/21 that will bridge the gap between the museum’s historic collection and the expansive field of international and contemporary art.
FOR INFORMATION:
Rasa Razgaitis
Project Manager
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center
14 Gyneju St.
Vilnius, Lithuania 09601
info@mekas.lt
www.mekas.lt
Mobile Tel. +370.612.18240 or +370.655.29299
Elena Getmanskaya, Ph.D. (Press Manager)
State Hermitage Museum
34, Dvortsovaya naberezhnaya
St. Petersburg, 190000
Russia
+7 812 710 9502
+7 812 312 1567 fax
getmansk@hermitage.ru
Eleanor R. Goldhar
Deputy Director, External Affairs
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Tel.: 212 423-3840
publicaffairs@guggenheim.org
Jurgis Maciunas friend professor Ken Friedman visits Jonas Mekas visual arts center
Professor Ken Friedman, famous Fluxus artist, who established international experimental laboratory of arts, architecture, design, literature and music, was visiting Vilnius and working here in the middle of February. Currently he is Dean of the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, he also teaches at Department of Culture, Communication, and Language at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, and at the Design Research Center at Denmark's Design School in Copenhagen.
K. Friedman was a good friend of Jurgis Maciunas and when he found out that there’s Jonas Mekas Visual art center in Vilnius and there’s Fluxus exhibition in it he definetly wanted to see it. At this time the center’s premier exhibition, The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus, is being closed, but it was reopened for professor K. Friedman. He stopped at every work of J. Maciunas presented in that ehhibition and told stories about how these art work were created, professor K. Friedman also told about his memories and impression of J. Maciunas.
K. Friedman has done research in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of design, and doctoral education in design. He also works with national design policy projects in Estonia and Latvia, helping these coutries to create industial design policy that could help to remain competetive in a global markets.
The Majority of the Readership of one of Vilnius Newspapers Would Like a Branch of Guggenheim Museum to be Opened in Vilnius
A survey aiming to find out if Vilnius wants to have the
Guggenheim museum was carried out by the daily "Vilniaus diena" (www.vilniausdiena.lt).
The residents of Vilnius had an opportunity to vote for three days.
The survey proved that the majority of the readers of the
"Vilniaus diena" consider the backlash of the current authorities against the
establishment of the branch of Guggenheim is unjustified.
90 percent of the voters of the "Vilniaus diena" survey are
convinced that the project is essential for the capital of Lithuania. "We hope
Vilnius authorities will not be indifferent to the opinion of the people of the
city", claims the publication of the "Vilniaus diena".
Jonas Mekas Granted Lithuanian Passport
On November 6 at the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania,
Jonas Mekas was granted a passport of the citizen of the Republic of Lithuania.
J. Mekas received the passport after the oath ceremony.
President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, pursuant
to Article 84 (21) of the Constitution of Lithuania and Articles 16 and 28 of
the Law on Citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania, granted Lithuanian
citizenship to Jonas Mekas by way of exception on October 29.
6 ноября в Министерстве внутренних дел Йонасу Мекасу был вручен
паспорт гражданина Литовской Республики. Паспорт был вручен после церемонии
присяги.
На основе пункта 21 статьи 84 Закона о гражданстве Литовской
Республики и статей 16 и 28 Закона о гражданстве Литовской Республики, президент
Литовской Республики Валдас Адамкус в порядке исключения предоставил Йонасу
Мекасу гражданство Литовской Республики.
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Founding of New York’s SoHo to be Featured in Vilnius Exhibition
George Maciunas, architect and visionary founder of the Fluxus art movement, conceived the idea of establishing cooperative buildings in New York where people could freely work and create. Rare documents, structural maps and correspondence with officials detail the excruciating process he underwent to legalize SoHo that transformed the entire downtown area. Visual works by renowned Fluxus artists Shigeko Kubota and Larry Miller will be shown along with those of filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins and photographer Peter Moore. First-person interviews and historical footage will complement the exhibition. A special Guest of Honor will be the legendary avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a close co-worker with George Maciunas during the early period of the creation of SoHo. A quartet of videos by Mr. Mekas will be shown, as well as a work by his daughter, Oona Mekas. “The SoHo phenomenon was an important creative initiative that made a significant impact on social urban development in New York. It is compelling in its grand scope and should be appreciated by both a local Lithuanian audience as well as an international one”, stated Mr. Arturas Zuokas, founder of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center. The publication of “Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo” by authors Roslyn Bernstein and Shael Shapiro will be celebrated at the opening. Hundreds of artists, including Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, John Lennon, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Andy Warhol were drawn to the building by Jonas Mekas’ Cinematheque and showed their work in and around it. In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Deputy Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, John Hatfield, will give a series of lectures highlighting the effects and significance of cultural neighborhoods on the economic, social and political life of a city. His main presentation in Vilnius will be at the “Ministry of Fluxus”, a new venue containing studios, galleries and performance areas for avant-garde artists. The exhibition is being hosted by the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, the Jonas Mekas Foundation and The American Center and will run through September 1st. Major corporate sponsors of the exhibition are “Akropolis”, “Ukio Bankas”, “Ranga Group” and “LAWIN”. Contacts: Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299,
Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 FACT SHEET 05/18/10 - MINISTRY OF FLUXUS
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA SEEKS TO BECOME CAPITAL OF FLUXUS CONCEPT AND OBJECTIVE: Vilnius, Lithuania has declared itself the international capital of Fluxus art in the 21st Century and to that end has established a Ministry of Fluxus. Young artists in Lithuania have chosen this innovative intervention to establish an environment conducive to unhindered creative expression.
PARTICIPANTS: Over two hundred artists, sculptors, musicians, photographers, actors and creative spirits have begun producing provocative works of art at the Ministry of Fluxus with an invitation to view the world through the prism of the previously unknown and unexpected. The Ministry of Fluxus follows in the footsteps of Lithuanian-American George Maciunas, a founder of the Fluxus movement in New York in the 1960s.
VENUE: Former premises of the Ministry of Health of Lithuania located at 27 Gedimino Prospect, the main street of downtown Vilnius. The run-down and abandoned building was cleaned up by artists and their friends and has been transformed into an unconventional space for creativity, symbolically changing a building that focused on curing an ailing body into one that will cure the soul.
OPENING EVENTS: On April 23rd, thousands of young Lithuanians with friends from Europe, Asia and the United States turned out to celebrate the opening of the Ministry of Fluxus. A number of completed works of art, sculpture and installations were presented along with live music and other performances. On April 24th, following a long-standing Fluxus tradition of looking to the East for inspiration, an exhibition by Japanese artists was opened and followed by a concert by the Japanese group “Gothika”.
FACILITIES: The Ministry of Fluxus acts as an “Arts Incubator” and contains artists’ studios as well as gallery areas. The “e-Mekas Cinema Center” (named in honor of legendary filmmaker and Fluxus artist Jonas Mekas) exists side by side with smaller film screening halls and performance spaces. There is a “City of Future Lab” on the rooftop and a skate-boarding club in the basement. A ground-floor wine and water bar is named “The Hospital”.
INTERNATIONAL DIVERSITY: Artists from other countries will find a hospitable space at the Ministry of Fluxus to create and display their work. There are a limited amount of hostel facilities available for short-term visitors.
INITIATOR: Mr. Arturas Zuokas, the innovative former Mayor of Vilnius conceived the project and is the main driving force behind it.
DURATION: The Ministry of Fluxus is a temporary one-year project.
WEB INFO: Facebook: “Fluxus Ministerija”
CONTACT INFORMATION: Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 or Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299
FACT SHEET 05/18/10 – “GEORGE MACIUNAS: FATHER OF SOHO”
NEW EXHIBITION TO OPEN IN VILNIUS ON JUNE 1ST
An exhibition “George Maciunas: Father of SoHo” will open to the public on June 1st in Vilnius, Lithuania, a city that seeks to become the new capital of Fluxus art in the 21st Century. The exhibition, which will run until September 1st, will feature rare documents, structural maps and correspondence between George Maciunas and the New York City government, relaying the intricacies of developing a project of such magnitude. VENUE: Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center at 14 Gyneju St., Vilnius, Lithuania.
GEORGE MACIUNAS: A Lithuanian-American architect and visionary founder of the Fluxus art movement, Maciunas conceived the idea of establishing a series of cooperative buildings in New York to provide a viable place for people to freely work and create. He undertook the role of developer for these projects and for this he is generally recognized as the founder of SoHo - both as an actual place and a state of mind. Maciunas went through an excruciating process to legalize the SoHo area that many avant-garde artists came to consider their home and scores of others perceived as a Mecca for viewing and experiencing cutting-edge art. Maciunas’ efforts resulted in the transformation of the entire downtown area of New York and also led to the creation of TriBeCa. Two years after his death, SoHo became and remains one of the most fashionable areas of downtown New York with many high-end stores, boutiques and restaurants.
SOHO COLLECTION: The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (JMVAC) of the City of Vilnius has in its holdings an important collection of Maciunas’ Fluxus art as well as extensive archival documents. A selection of this material will be on view during the exhibition. Mr.Arturas Zuokas, founder of the JMVAC, stresses the enormous impact that Lithuanian American Maciunas had on the social urban development of New York and the significance of the exhibition in opening to public view documents that detail Maciunas’ grand-scale of thought and vision.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS: Visual works by internationally renowned Fluxus artists Shigeko Kubota and Larry Miller will be shown along with those of filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins and photographer Peter Moore. First-person interviews and historical footage will complement the exhibition.
SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOR: Legendary avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a close co-worker of Maciunas’ during the early period of the creation of SoHo will attend a VIP preview of the exhibition on May 29th.
MAJOR CORPORATE SPONSORS: Akropolis, Ukio Bankas, Ranga Group and LAWIN
WEB INFO: www.mekas.lt
CONTACT INFORMATION: Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 or Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299
FACT SHEET – 05/18/10 NEW BOOK : “ILLEGAL LIVING”
Illegal Living is the biography of a building that reveals the life of Fluxus and tells the story of 80 Wooster Street, the first successful artists’ cooperative located in the area of New York City now known as SoHo. Reborn after seven decades of life as a manufacturing building, it assumed a vibrant new identity when it became the headquarters for George Maciunas, founder of the avant-garde art movement, Fluxus. Maciunas bought the building in 1967 and transformed it into Fluxhouse Cooperative No. II, the first of sixteen live-work coop loft buildings with which he was involved.
The building became a hub for art-world events. Jonas Mekas’ Cinematheque was based there, as was Anthology Film Archives. Yoko Ono and John Lennon created and executed many projects in the building. Dancer Trisha Brown, Fluxus artist, Robert Watts, artist Charles Ross and Director Richard Foreman lived and/or worked there. Philip Glass had the first performance of his own work in the ground floor space.
Drawing upon original photographs, archival papers, and architectural floor plans, and relying upon in-depth interviews with artists and activists, Illegal Living closely examines the history of 80 Wooster Street, in so doing illuminating the evolution of SoHo as an arts community.
AUTHORS: Roslyn Bernstein is a professor of journalism and creative writing at Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She also teaches feature writing at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Her book, Boardwalk Stories appeared in 2009. Bernstein has published news and feature articles, catalogue essays and opinion pieces on education, neighborhood development, media, culture and the arts for such publications as the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Parents, Contemporanea, Artnews, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Buzzine.com.
Shael Shapiro is an architect who was a pioneer in SoHo. George Maciunas consulted with him about architectural matters for 80 Wooster Street and other buildings. In 1971 at the height of the Fluxus movement, Shapiro assisted Maciunas in the production of a Yoko Ono/John Lennon museum show, and he then worked for Lennon and Ono for over a year. Shapiro specializes in the adaptive reuse of buildings and was the architect for the PS1 artist studios and museum in Queens, New York which opened in 1976. The Downtown Collection of the Fales Library at New York University has acquired Shapiro’s personal papers relating to the development of SoHo and the conversion of loft buildings.
PUBLISHER: The book Illegal Living is being published in Vilnius, Lithuania by the Jonas Mekas Foundation and is tied into the opening of the exhibition “George Maciunas: Father of SoHo” at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius, Lithuania which will open on June 1st at 14 Gyneju St. and run until September 1st. CONTACT INFORMATION: Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 or Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299
FACT SHEET – 05/18/10
LECTURE SERIES BY JOHN HATFIELD IN LITHUANIA
Mr. John Hatfield, the Deputy Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, will present a series of lectures on May 27-29 in Lithuania on the effects and significance of cultural neighborhoods on the economic, social and political life of a city. BACKGROUND: John Hatfield, an arts administrator for over twenty years in New York City, has firsthand knowledge of downtown Manhattan’s cultural development and planning. He has worked at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in several capacities since 1992 and currently serves as Deputy Director. He is responsible for the management of museum operations as well as for managing real estate development and city and state relations. In 2002, Mr. Hatfield served as Assistant Vice President, Memorial, Cultural & Civic Programs for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation where he worked to ensure the successful implementation of all plans and processes related to the selection and creation of a memorial to the events of September 11, 2001 and the cultural development of the World Trade Center site.
TOPIC: Mr. Hatfield will discuss how neighborhoods in cities become cultural destinations and the main ingredients of a successful cultural district i.e. intellectual capital, real estate development, infrastructure and opportunity. A main topic will be the overview of SoHo’s transformation and evolution over the last thirty years into more of a commercial destination rather than a cultural one. Mr. Hatfield will also take a look at the coming into being of new cultural districts in New York City such as Chelsea and the Lower East Side which is the new location of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. International models such as Bilbao, Spain and Berlin, Germany will be touched upon.
DATES AND VENUES: A presentation will be made to key urban planners and cultural decision-makers in the Vilnius Municipal government on May 27th. The presentation will be repeated on May 28th in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania to Kaunas municipal officials. A keynote speaking engagement will take place on May 29th at the newly opened avant-garde arts incubator in the capital city of Vilnius called The Ministry of Fluxus located at 27 Gedimino Prospect that will be open to the public.
HOSTS: Mr. Hatfield will be in Lithuania at the invitation of The American Center. His lecture series is tied into the opening of the exhibition “George Maciunas: Father of SoHo” at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius, Lithuania that will open on June 1st at 14 Gyneju St. and run until September 1st.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Kristijonas Kucinskas Email: kristijonas@mekas.lt Cell: +370.657.64432 or Arturas Zuokas Email: arturas@zuokas.lt Cell: +370.655.29299 Please find the pictures for press: http://www.mekas.lt/press/JMVAC_Map.jpg http://www.mekas.lt/press/FM_Map.jpg http://www.mekas.lt/press/cover.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/soho.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/soho2.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/soho3.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/soho4.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/1006.jpeg http://www.mekas.lt/press/3004.jpeg
2009-07-14
“BEYOND THE SCREEN” – AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY EUGENE VARKALIS
“BEYOND THE SCREEN” – AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY EUGENE VARKALIS The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (Gyneju str. 14, Vilnius) will open “Beyond the Screen”, an exhibition of artwork by Eugene Varkalis on July 14th at 18:00. The exhibition reflects the creative shifts and changes of the artist during the time period of 1984 until 2009 in painting, drawing, collages, music and film as well as found objects. The exhibition includes a series of paintings from his earlier work depicting the Stations of the Cross in an Expressionist style that were painted in Samogitia, Berzore and Sarnele in 1983-1989. From 1994-2005 Varkalis lived in New York and, inspired by his good friend and renowned avant garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, immersed himself in experimental cinema, filmed himself, participated in happenings, alternative film festivals, exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris, Saint Petersburg. He also created musical scores for the films of Jonas Mekas and Julius Zis, illustrated Jonas Mekas’ books “My Nights” and “Words and Letters”. Varkalis often stresses the relationship between painting, film and music when describing his work. His paintings will be exhibited alongside of his experimental hand-made films from the series “The Cinema Without Camera” that were created in New York. Also on view will be films made in Lithuania that inspired his paintings and depict the flowing water of the Nemunas and Neris rivers, the water of Lithuanian lakesides and floating ice. Painting comprises the largest and most important part of Varkalis’ work. Large scale abstracts (150 x 200 cm) are composed of flowing acrylic paint, ink, wine, coffee and tea. The beginnings of poetic improvisation that dominate the works contain an abundance of allusion to the semantics of water: water as a metaphor for transience, spontaneity, constant change, cleansing and the sacred. The exhibition will be on view until August 21st.
2008-06-12
Construction of a new museum in Vilnius approved by he government of Lithuania
The museum will be designed by Zaha Hadid and is to open in 2013. “This is an important project, in a move to attract tourists to Lithuania,” Gediminas Kirkilas, the country’s prime minister, told reporters. “It is also important to Lithuania’s image.” The estimated value of the project, shown above in a rendering, is $117 million, with the Lithuanian government to pay 10 to 15 percent of the total. The museum will build its own collection and display art from the Hermitage and the Guggenheim. Arturas Zuokas, a former mayor of Vilnius who is an organizer of the project, said the museum could draw 400,000 visitors a year, half of them from outside Lithuania.
ZAHA HADID WINS COMPETITION TO DEVELOP DESIGN FOR PROPOSED MUSEUM IN VILNIUS
ZAHA HADID WINS COMPETITION TO DEVELOP DESIGN FOR PROPOSED MUSEUM IN VILNIUS
VILNIUS, Lithuania – April 8, 2008 – A jury of six members today announced that Zaha Hadid, London, has won the architectural competition to develop a design for a proposed museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. The architectural competition is part of a feasibility study undertaken by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The State Hermitage Museum. The directors of both institutions participated in the jury selection process.
In addition to Zaha Hadid Daniel Liebeskind, New York, and Massimilliano Fuksas, Rome, submitted designs for the proposed project.
"The creation of the new center of contemporary and media art in Vilnius would be an important phenomenon in European cultural life,” said Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum. “We are honored that The State Hermitage Museum is participating in such a significant undertaking. The project in Vilnius would be an excellent complement to the programme we have recently developed exhibiting contemporary art at the Hermitage".
Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas said, “Lithuania has set its sights on becoming a premier international center of art. We can think of no better institutions -- The State Hermitage and the Guggenheim Foundation -- to help guide us in this project. Their participation on our jury has led to selecting Zaha Hadid to design the new venue, which we believe will best enable our capital city of Vilnius to achieve this goal.”
An exhibition organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, entitled “Imagining the Future: Design Proposals for a New Museum in Vilnius” will open to the public on April 10th at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius and will allow visitors to view the works of all three architects who competed for the project.
To download press images of Zaha Hadid winning design, as well as the designs of Daniel Liebeskind and Massimilliano Fuksas visit ftp://ftp.mekas.lt. Enter user name media@mekas.lt and password, “press”.
Zaha Hadid
Was born in Baghdad in 1950 and studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London. Following her graduation in 1977, she became a partner in the avant-garde Office for Metropolitan Architecture in London and two years later she opened an independent practice, Zaha Hadid Architects. Through this London-based firm, Hadid’s artistic vision is being transformed into architectural masterpieces worldwide. In 2004, Hadid won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, making her the first (and thus far, the only) woman to have earned this prestigious award. Other significant honors include being named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Commander of the British Empire. She has held chairs and professorships at institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, and the Hochschule für Bildende Künst Hamburg. Hadid has participated in several research-based competitions, winning awards for urban master plans and building designs in countries as diverse as China, Malaysia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
The Architectural Competition and Jury
The architectural competition is part of a study to explore the feasibility, from an architectural, economic, and cultural perspective, of establishing a world-class museum in Vilnius. The study includes programming recommendations for the proposed museum and a market study and economic impact analysis. The museum site is located in a large public green space on the banks of the Neris River, centrally located between the old and new centers of the city.
The feasibility study was commissioned by the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, a public establishment founded by the city of Vilnius. The study is being conducted by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The State Hermitage Museum. An international consulting firm was engaged to conduct the market study and economic impact analysis. An international engineering firm performed the site analysis and provided detailed technical analyses for the three competing designs. It is anticipated that the study will be completed in the summer of 2008.
Thomas Krens, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Foundation said, “Ever since our first meeting, I have been continually impressed with the determination of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center and city officials to put Vilnius on the world’s cultural map. The extraordinary Fluxus collection of the Mekas Center would provide a strong foundation for a world-class museum focusing on contemporary and new media art. Selecting an internationally renowned architect to design the museum is the first critical step in realizing this ambitious project. The Guggenheim is delighted to lend its guidance and expertise in this process.”
The jury that selected the winning design was comprised of the following members:
Mikhail Piotrovsky – Director of the State Hermitage Museum
Thomas Krens – Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Peter Schmal – Director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Gediminas Kirkilas – Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
Juozas Imbrasas – Mayor of the City of Vilnius
Gintaras Caikauskas – Vice-Chairman of the Architects’ Association of Lithuania
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center
The City Council of Vilnius, Lithuania established the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (JMVAC) on February 19, 2007. The mission of the JMVAC is to promote the avant-garde along all avenues to diverse audiences. JMVAC’s permanent collection concentrates on two of Lithuania’s most prolific artists: distinguished avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas and George Maciunas, impresario and “Chairman” of the international Fluxus art movement. This collection will form the core of the new museum.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation currently administers a global network of museums and exhibition spaces around the world. These are the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; and the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas. The Guggenheim Foundation is also building a new museum, designed by Frank Gehry, in Abu Dhabi, scheduled for completion in 2012-2013.
The State Hermitage Museum
With partnering institutions in five countries, the State Hermitage Museum has one of the world’s largest and most encyclopedic art collections numbering more than three million objects. Recently, the Hermitage launched a new initiative Hermitage 20/21 that will bridge the gap between the museum’s historic collection and the expansive field of international and contemporary art.
FOR INFORMATION:
Rasa Razgaitis
Project Manager
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center
14 Gyneju St.
Vilnius, Lithuania 09601
info@mekas.lt
www.mekas.lt
Mobile Tel. +370.612.18240 or +370.655.29299
Elena Getmanskaya, Ph.D. (Press Manager)
State Hermitage Museum
34, Dvortsovaya naberezhnaya
St. Petersburg, 190000
Russia
+7 812 710 9502
+7 812 312 1567 fax
getmansk@hermitage.ru
Eleanor R. Goldhar
Deputy Director, External Affairs
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Tel.: 212 423-3840
publicaffairs@guggenheim.org
2008-03-28
RENOWNED ARCHITECTS TO PRESENT PROPOSALS FOR NEW MUSEUM IN VILNIUS
Three internationally acclaimed architects, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Massimiliano Fuksas will unveil their proposals for a new museum in Vilnius on April 8, 2008. A jury consisting of Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, the Director of the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, Thomas Krens, the Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, Peter Schmal, the Director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas, Mayor of the City of Vilnius Juozas Imbrasas and Gintaras Caikauskas, Vice Chairman of the Lithuanian Architects’ Association will determine the winning proposal.
The architectural competition is part of a Feasibility Study being conducted by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in collaboration with the State Hermitage Museum. The study is evaluating the feasibility, from an architectural, economic and cultural perspective of establishing a new museum in Vilnius. The Feasibility Study was commissioned by the recently established Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius and is expected to be completed by mid-June 2008.
Vilnius will be assuming an esteemed position as the European Capital of Culture in 2009. The presence of a new museum would be a significant initiative in transforming the city into a premier destination for cutting-edge art, film and architecture. It would also markedly contribute to the enhancement of Vilnius as an international center of the avant-garde.
All three architectural models will be on public display from April 10 through the end of June 2008 at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in a Special Exhibition being organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum entitled: “Imagining the Future: Architectural Proposals for a New Museum in Vilnius.”
For further information, please contact:
Rasa Razgaitis
Project Manager
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center
14 Gyneju St.
Vilnius, Lithuania 09601
info@mekas.lt
www.mekas.lt
+370.612.18240 or +370.655.29299
Eleanor R. Goldhar
Deputy Director for External Affairs
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
345 Hudson Street
12th floor
New York, NY 10014
egoldhar@guggenheim.org
www.guggenheim.org
212.423.3528
Elena Getmanskaya, Ph.D. (Press Manager)
State Hermitage Museum
34, Dvortsovaya naberezhnaya
St. Petersburg, Russia 190000
getmansk@hermitage.ru
www.hermitagemuseum.org
+7 812 710 9502
+7 812 312 1567 fax
2008-03-05
J. Mekas is honoured by Austrian Commitee for Arts
Austrian Commitee for Arts informed that Jonas Mekas is nominated for Austrian Decoration of Honour fo Science and Art (which internationaly classifies as a „Commander‘s Cross“). The Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art is the most prestigiuos award in Austria for outstanding achievements in the field of science and arts. This decoration makes J. Mekas a member of the Commitee for Art.
The Austrian President will be present the award to J. Mekas April 1 st 2008 at the presidential offices in the Vienna Hafburg.
2008-02-18
Jurgis Maciunas friend professor Ken Friedman visits Jonas Mekas visual arts center
Professor Ken Friedman, famous Fluxus artist, who established international experimental laboratory of arts, architecture, design, literature and music, was visiting Vilnius and working here in the middle of February. Currently he is Dean of the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, he also teaches at Department of Culture, Communication, and Language at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, and at the Design Research Center at Denmark's Design School in Copenhagen.
K. Friedman was a good friend of Jurgis Maciunas and when he found out that there’s Jonas Mekas Visual art center in Vilnius and there’s Fluxus exhibition in it he definetly wanted to see it. At this time the center’s premier exhibition, The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus, is being closed, but it was reopened for professor K. Friedman. He stopped at every work of J. Maciunas presented in that ehhibition and told stories about how these art work were created, professor K. Friedman also told about his memories and impression of J. Maciunas.
K. Friedman has done research in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of design, and doctoral education in design. He also works with national design policy projects in Estonia and Latvia, helping these coutries to create industial design policy that could help to remain competetive in a global markets.
2008-01-28
Jonas Mekas to visit the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
Avant-Garde filmaker, Jonas Mekas, will visit this year's festival. The festival, in association with Solus, will present a retrospective of Mekas' work with titles including As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, The Brig, Notes on a Circus, Reminiscences of a Journey to LIthuania and A Letter from Greenpoint.
SOLUS was formed in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland: an independent film collective and platform for film-makers working in Super-8mm/16mm/DV. It has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short & and avant-garde film in Dublin.
2007-11-14
Opening of the first Exhibition of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center Covered in Various Languages
"The first Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center exhibition in Vilnius
- the new Avant-Garde and FLUXUS capital of the 21st century, was opened", the
popular Polish website inwestycje.pl begins its article on the exhibition "The
Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus".
Similar lines in various languages may be found in newspapers
and websites of various countries of the world.
Articles about the opening of the first exhibition of Jonas
Mekas Visual Arts Center are published not only for the art lovers but also
appear in the publications, websites and blogs intended for those interested in
investment and tourism. A considerable article was printed in one of the largest
French daily newspapers "Le Liberation". Visitors of the popular portal
artpost.info - which introduces the news on various exhibitions and auctions to
the admirers of art - are presented with detailed information on the event as
well.
The avant-garde and FLUXUS exhibition in Vilnius also turned
the attention of one of the best-known promoters of modern art in Great Britain
– the "Saatchi Gallery". The website of the gallery announces the opening of the
exhibition in Vilnius.
Information on the exhibition and the goals and plans of the
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center is published in English, French, Czech, Spanish,
Russian (including the largest Russian news agency "Itar-tass"), Slovenian,
Italian, and Japanese languages. The exhibition is referred to as one more
reason to visit Vilnius and Lithuania.
2007-11-09
The Majority of the Readership of one of Vilnius Newspapers Would Like a Branch of Guggenheim Museum to be Opened in Vilnius
A survey aiming to find out if Vilnius wants to have the
Guggenheim museum was carried out by the daily "Vilniaus diena" (www.vilniausdiena.lt).
The residents of Vilnius had an opportunity to vote for three days.
The survey proved that the majority of the readers of the
"Vilniaus diena" consider the backlash of the current authorities against the
establishment of the branch of Guggenheim is unjustified.
90 percent of the voters of the "Vilniaus diena" survey are
convinced that the project is essential for the capital of Lithuania. "We hope
Vilnius authorities will not be indifferent to the opinion of the people of the
city", claims the publication of the "Vilniaus diena".
2007-11-06
Jonas Mekas Granted Lithuanian Passport
On November 6 at the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania,
Jonas Mekas was granted a passport of the citizen of the Republic of Lithuania.
J. Mekas received the passport after the oath ceremony.
President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, pursuant
to Article 84 (21) of the Constitution of Lithuania and Articles 16 and 28 of
the Law on Citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania, granted Lithuanian
citizenship to Jonas Mekas by way of exception on October 29.
2007-11-06
6 ноября в Министерстве внутренних дел Йонасу Мекасу был вручен
паспорт гражданина Литовской Республики. Паспорт был вручен после церемонии
присяги.
На основе пункта 21 статьи 84 Закона о гражданстве Литовской
Республики и статей 16 и 28 Закона о гражданстве Литовской Республики, президент
Литовской Республики Валдас Адамкус в порядке исключения предоставил Йонасу
Мекасу гражданство Литовской Республики.
2007-11-05
Working hours of the exhibition “The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus”
The first exhibition of the Visual Arts Center “The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus” was solemnly opened at the fashion and leisure center “Vilnius Gates” on November 4, 2007. The exhibition will be open for public until February 3, 2008.
Visitors are welcomed every day but Sunday, from 12:00 to 19:00, Gynėjų st. 14, Vilnius.
Ticket fares: 10 Lt; pensioners, students, schoolchildren, and persons belonging to socially disadvantaged groups – 5 Lt.
2007-11-05
The President Meets Jonas Mekas, the Avant-Garde Filmmaker and Poet
On Monday, 5th of November, the President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus gave a reception to avant-garde film author and poet Jonas Mekas who is now residing in New York, USA.
“It is a special day not only for You but for all of us as well to welcome You here in Lithuania, - said the head of the state highlighting that the artist never gave up his homeland. – While working abroad You expressed love for Lithuania and never forgot it.”
The president emphasized that living in a free world and having an opportunity to choose what to do Jonas Mekas chose Lithuania and worked to make it known to the world.
“For that the Lithuanian nation is especially grateful to You”- said president V. Adamkus.
The president presented Jonas Mekas with a copy of a decree which grants him Lithuanian citizenship by way of exception.
Press Service of the President
2007-11-03
Famous Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper: „Jonas Mekas is a monolithic figure in film“
Famous Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper regrets that he can not be in Vilnius for an opening ceremony of Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center premier exhibition, The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus. In his letter D. Hopper wrote: „Jonas Mekas is a monolithic figure in film - from documentaries to reviews. Jonas has always been the best. God bless him in all of his
future endeavors and I wish I could be in Lithuania for this wonderful occasion. Love, Dennis Hopper."
Many world famous avant-garde artists, art experts and museum representatives gathered in Lithuanian capital Vilnius November, 4 th for an opening of exhibition, The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus.
Premier exhibition, The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus of Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center opens in Vilnius
The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (JMVAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania proudly announces its premier exhibition, The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus, which opens to the public on November 4, 2007 and runs through February 3, 2008. The exhibition highlights the history of the avant-garde through some of its most pivotal figures and a wide array of mediums including film, film stills, installation, Fluxus objects and documents, sculpture, video, and poetry, which cooperatively stimulated new ways of thinking about art, culture, and society. Furthermore, the exhibition represents a celebratory homecoming for two of Lithuania's most prolific artists: pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas and George Maciunas, the impresario and "Chairman" of the 1960's international art movement Fluxus.
Kazys Binkis, the Futurist poet and writer whose literary activity awakened Lithuania to avant-garde philosophy and aesthetics holds an honorary place in the program. His books, poems, and manuscripts are a testament to his enigmatic persona and contribution to the progression of Lithuanian art and culture.
Jonas Mekas "The Godfather of American Avant-Garde Cinema" continues his groundbreaking work through new installations in which the still and moving image conjoin in a spectacular multimedia presentation. His Collection of 40 Short Films, recently on view at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York is shown on monitors and wall projections together with 40 film stills extracted from this riveting series. The installations demonstrate Mekas' formal innovations as well as his importance as a documentarian. Among the colorful and well known personalities who appear in his films are: John Lennon, Salvador Dali, George Maciunas, Richard Serra, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg, reminding us that Mekas' films represent some of the best historical footage of the avant-garde in existence from the 1960's to the present. Also featured will be Zefiro Torna: Scenes From the Life of George Maciunas (1992), Mekas' cinematic homage to his longtime friend and collaborator. Complementing the film are 40 film stills that Mekas crafted specially for the exhibition.
Jonas Mekas congratulates the opening of the JMVAC: "Thanks to Arturas Zuokas and Kristijonas Kucinskas! I feel it's important today to make a detour from the daily realities, to change the direction, to move towards other realities, other realities, other realities ---"
Essential works have been selected from the Center's recently acquired Fluxus collection. Maciunas' readymade sign No Smoking (1963/1973), his collaborative work with George Brecht realized through Iced Dice (1964), and Yoko Ono's Do It Yourself (1966) demonstrate the movement's emphasis on humor and desire to construct art from everyday objects and actions. The 80 Wooster Street documents reveal the nuts and bolts behind Maciunas' vision to convert the industrial buildings of New York's downtown SoHo neighborhood into the legendary Fluxhouse Artist Cooperatives, which earned him the title of "Father of SoHo." Also on view will be Nam June Paik's conceptual video installation Real Plant/Live Plant (1978) and video sculpture TV Rodin (1975). Larry Miller's Some Fluxus (1991) showcases key Fluxus performances incorporating segments from Maciunas' final interview in which Maciunas explains his lifelong fascination with charts, systemization, and humor. Shigeko Kubota's Fluxus SoHo Tour (1994) offers another intimate look at Maciunas as he and Fluxus members travel the streets of SoHo speaking in their native languages. While the international Fluxus movement as a whole is the subject of Lars Movin's The Misfits: 30 Years of Fluxus (1993), Maciunas' comprehensive production Fluxfilm Anthology (1962-70) encapsulates the group's critical yet playful engagement with film tradition.
Jonas Mekas specifically curates a roster of films by visionaries of avant-garde cinema. So honored are Luis Buñuel's revolutionary surrealist film Un Chien Andalou (1929) written in collaboration with Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp's characteristically Dada film Anemic Cinema (1926), Hans Richter's Dada masterpiece Rhythmus 21 (1921), Fernand Léger's pioneering cinematic testament Ballet Mécanique (1924), and Peter Kubelka's experimental, abstract film Arnulf Rainer (1960).
"Jonas Mekas was born and raised in Lithuania. As a renowned poet in his native country, he pushed the boundaries of language to its most creative edges. After he was forced to leave Lithuania during World War II, Jonas found a new home in New York and continued paving new avant-garde frontiers. This time, he chose the universal language of cinema as his area of communication. Jonas' return to Lithuania is not only a home-coming, but a continuation of new realities", stated Artūras Zuokas, the Chairman of the Board of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center.
This landmark exhibition culminates in the historic moment when Lithuania assumes the esteemed position of European Capital of Culture in 2009. Such international recognition attests to the fact that a vibrant new period in Lithuanian culture has already emerged.
"With this exhibition, Vilnius has taken another very important step towards becoming the world's capital of the new avant-garde and Fluxus in the 21st Century", stated A. Zuokas.
The exhibition will be accompanied with a full-page color catalogue with essays by R. Bruce Elder,
P. Adams Sitney, Amy Taubin, Mari Dumett, Julia Robinson, Carolina Carrasco, Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, and Hollis Melton
2007-10-29
President of the Republic of Lithuania grants the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania to Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center is happy to learn that President of the Republic of Lithuania granted the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania to Jonas Mekas. Earlier this year the Chairman of the Board of Jonas Mekas’ Visual Arts Centre Artūras Zuokas addressed the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania Jonas Jučas, asking for mediation in the process of the President of the Republic of Lithuania granting the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania to Jonas Mekas.
Jonas Mekas, who more than 50 years ago became a New Yorker not by his free choice, always remained a true son of Lithuania.
2007-10-17
The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (JMVAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania proudly announces its premier exhibition, The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus
The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (JMVAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania proudly announces its premier exhibition, The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus, which opens to the public on November 4, 2007 and runs through February 3, 2008. The exhibition highlights the history of the avant-garde through its most focal figures and a multitude of mediums including film, film stills, installation, Fluxus art and documents, sculpture, video, and poetry, which cooperatively stimulated new ways of thinking about art, culture, and society. The exhibition furthermore commemorates a homecoming for two of the country’s most prolific artists: pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas and George Maciunas, the impresario and “Chairman” of the international Fluxus art movement of the 1960’s.
Kazys Binkis, the futurist poet and writer whose literary production and education awakened Lithuania to avant-garde philosophy and aesthetics, is acclaimed with an honorary place in the program. His books, poems, and manuscripts demonstrate a tribute to this enigmatic figure and his contribution to the progression of Lithuanian art and culture.
Jonas Mekas “The Godfather of American Avant-Garde Cinema” continues groundbreaking performance through installations in which the still and moving image merge in a spectacular multimedia presentation. Recently on view at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, his Collection of 40 Short Films is shown on monitors and wall projections in cooperation with 40 film stills, which were extracted from this riveting series of documentation. Appearances by well-known personalities Mekas has encountered throughout existence include John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Salvador Dali, George Maciunas, Richard Serra, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg. Also featured will be Zefiro Torna: Scenes From the Life of George Maciunas (1992), Mekas’ cinematic homage to his longtime friend and collaborator. Complementing the film are 40 film stills that Mekas especially crafted for the exhibition.
Essential works have been selected from the Center’s recently acquired Fluxus collection. Maciunas’ readymade sign No Smoking (1963/1973), his collaborative work with George Brecht realized through Iced Dice (1964), and Yoko Ono’s Do It Yourself (1966) demonstrate the movement’s witty nature and facility to construct art from everyday objects and actions. 80 Wooster Street documents reveal Maciunas’ vision to convert the industrial buildings of New York’s downtown SoHo neighborhood into the legendary Fluxhouse Artist Cooperatives, which earned him the title of “Father of SoHo.” Also on view will be Nam June Paik’s conceptual video installation Real Plant/Live Plant (1978) and video sculpture TV Rodin (1975). Larry Miller’s Some Fluxus (1991) showcases vital performances of the collective and incorporates segments from Maciunas’ final interview in which Maciunas explains his lifelong fascination with charts, systemization, and humor. Shigeko Kubota’s Fluxus SoHo Tour (1994) casts an intimate portrait of Maciunas as he and Fluxus members travel the streets of SoHo speaking in their native languages. Lars Movin’s The Misfits: 30 Years of Fluxus (1993) projects a video portrait of the international Fluxus movement. Maciunas’ comprehensive production Fluxfilm Anthology (1962-70) encapsulates the group’s humorous spirit.
Jonas Mekas specifically curates a roster comprised of films by fundamental visionaries of modern art that reflect aesthetics and beliefs associated with the avant-garde. Embraced are Luis Buñuel’s revolutionary surrealist film Un Chien Andalou (1929) written in collaboration with Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp’s characteristically Dada film Anemic Cinema (1926), Hans Richter’s Dada masterpiece Rhythmus 21 (1921), Fernand Léger’s pioneering cinematic testament Ballet Mécanique (1924), and Peter Kubelka’s experimental, abstract film Arnulf Rainer (1960).
This landmark exhibition culminates in the historic, forthcoming moment when Lithuania assumes the esteemed position of European Capital of Culture in 2009. A vibrant period in Lithuania has now emerged already attested through international recognition as one of the world’s major enthusiasts of arts and culture.
The exhibition will be accompanied with a full-page color catalogue.
For further information please contact:
Mr. Arturas Zuokas – Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (JMVAC)
Address – Gyneju g. 14, Vilnius, Lithuania 09601
T +370.5.211.2377 | F +370.211.2502
www.mekas.lt
EMAIL info@mekas.lt
Ms. Maya Stendhal and Mr. Harry Stendhal – exhibition curators
EMAIL gallery@mayastendhalgallery.com
T +1.212.366.1549 | F +1.212.347.287.67775
2007-10-01
Mayor of Vilnius discussed the project of a Multifunctional Cultural Centre in Vilnius with the world famous architects
Mayor of Vilnius City Juozas Imbrasas met with Daniel and Nina Libeskind who are ranked among the foremost world’s architects. Mayor along with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Gediminas Kirkilas discussed the possibilities of cooperation in building Multifunctional Cultural Centre, working together with Guggenheim and Hermitage Museums. The guests were very positive about Vilnius City posssibilities establish a modern centre of art and culture.
Other eminent European and world’s architects will be also invited to submit their architectural offers for one of most ambitious cultural projects of Vilnius City. Their projects will be judged by the commission that will include the Mayor of Vilnius City, representatives of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, the Architects Association of Lithuania and network of Guggenheim museums. Works of construction of the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum are expected to commence in 2009 - the year of Lithuanian state millennium. Vilnius will be the Cultural Capital or Europe same year too.
Today, at 11:00 of 1 October in the meeting room of the Municipality Council (1st floor) Mr. Libeskind will have an open lecture, so citizens of Vilnius will have an opportunity to know works of the architect better and to discuss on the latest trends of world architecture.
Daniel Libeskind is an influential and respected architect of Polish origin, the author of the project of the memorial to the New York Twin Towers.
2007-09-28
Lithuanian Minister of foreign affairs met with director of the Guggenheim foundation in New York
On 27 September in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with Director of the Solomon R.Guggenheim Foundation Thomas Krens.
While discussing a project to establish a multifunctional culturas centre in cooperation with the Guggenheim Foundation, the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg and the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre in Vilnius, P.Vaitiekūnas pointed out that Vilnius was going to become the European Capital of Culture in 2009.
“For centruries Vilnius was known for its tolerance and amicable cohabitation of diverse cultures, therefore, it is an ideal location for such a project,” said P.Vaitiekūnas.
In Minister’s opinion, this project which is important for our country will be implemented successfully.
The Director of the Guggenheim Foundation informed that a delegation of the foundation is to arrive in the beginning of October in Vilnius, where they will discuss further implementation of the project with the City Municipality.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York was opened to the public in 1959. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was founded in the Spanish Basque Province in 1997. The same year the Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank opened a Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin gallery, situated on Unter den Linden in Germany.
In 2001 the state-of-the-art Guggenheim Hermitage Museum was built in Las Vegas, Nevada, which exhibits masterpieces from collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg. Currently the Guggenheim Foundation is promoting cooperation projects in Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates, and China
2007-09-18
One of the pioneers of avant-garde cinema Adolfas Mekas in Lithuania
Film director, scriptwriter, founder and a former director of one of the best USA Bard College of Arts, Adolfas Mekas came to Vilnius by invitation of Jonas Mekas’ Visual Arts Centre.
The outstanding representative of “the new American cinema” is visiting Lithuania for the third time. Before he visited Lithuania in 1973 and 1993. In 1944 Adolfas Mekas together with his brother Jonas Mekas were forced to leave Lithuania, they were taken to Nazi Elmshorn forced labour camp. After the war, in 1946-48 at the University of Mainz they studied philosophy and in the end of 1949 the brothers emigrated to the USA settling in New York. In 1955 the brothers Mekas founded the Film Culture Magazine.
In New York Adolfas and Jonas Mekas started making avant-garde films. Brothers Mekas are titled to be the fathers of the avant-garde cinema. Adolfas Mekas’ films were shown in many international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, New York, London, Berlin, Moscow.
On 20 September, 7 p.m. the cinema centre “Skalvija” will show retrospectives of Adolfas Mekas’ films. A. Mekas is bringing to Vilnius the well-known cubistic comedy Hallelujah to the Hills and a peculiar view of Lithuania in the seventies – the documentary Coming Home.
That’s how a well-known USA Time Magazine described A. Mekas’ film Hallelujah to the Hills: “The weirdest, wooziest, wackiest screen comedy... a slapstick poem, an intellectual hellzapoppin, a gloriously fresh experiment and experience in the cinema of the absurd.”
Vilnius movie viewers also will be able see jolly shorties of A. Mekas’ wife – singer, ethnographer, experiment film author – Pola Chapelle. Her films never leave audience indifferent.
“We are happy to welcome here in Vilnius, that wants to become the 21st century avant-garde cinema centre, one of the pioneers and promoters of the avant-garde cinema, who inspired the most famous avant-gardes of the world – cinematographers,” said the Chairman of the Board of Jonas Mekas’ Visual Arts Centre Artūras Zuokas.
2007-08-16
Jonas Mekas’ Visual Arts Centre asked the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania to assist with the granting of citizenship to Jonas Mekas by the President of the Republic of Lithuania
Today the Chairman of the Board of Jonas Mekas’ Visual Arts Centre Artūras Zuokas formally asked the Minister of Culture Jonas Jučas, asking to assist with the process of the President of the Republic of Lithuania granting the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania to one of the most outstanding artists of the 20th century, father of avant-garde cinema, Doctor of Honour of Vytautas Magnus University, poet and publicist, Jonas Mekas.
Jonas Mekas, who worked and befriended with such celebrities as Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Salvador Dali, Jurgis Mačiūnas and others, is included in the group of 80 top artists 20th century artists of America. He was and is still having enormous influence on an artists and cinematographers. His films have earned and still earn high evaluations and awards in many international film festivals. He is admired and respected by artists, museum curators, and critics from New York and all over the world. Contemporary art and cinema is influenced not only by his works but also by the New American Cinema and the Anthology Film Archives that he has founded.
Works of Jonas Mekas last year were granted the award for his life achievments by the Cinema Critics Association of Los Angeles; earlier Jonas Mekas has received the award of New York Film Critics Circle, the title of Chevalier of the French Arts and Literature, awards of International Documentary Films Association and Pier Paolo Pasolini. J. Mekas’ film Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania was registered to the list of America‘s protected films by the USA National Cinema Protection Council (only 25 films are selected every year to the Congress National Cinema Register).
In Lithuania Jonas Mekas’ merits in promoting Lithuania, fostering and developing inter-country relations were honoured in 2003. Jonas Mekas received the national award of Lithuania – the Great Cross of the Order of Merits. Previously in 1995 Jonas Mekas was granted the Lithuanian National Award for Culture and Art for his film diaries (1949-1994). His selection of poetry Idylls of Semeniškiai was awarded with Vincas Kudirka award. It would be hard to name all merits of Jonas Mekas to the world film culture.
Jonas Mekas, although being the man of the world, still maintains close relations with Lithuania. He has helped and still helps Lithuanian artists in their way through cinema field. Young Lithuanian directors, now already well-known in the world – Algimantas Maceina, Julius Žižliauskas-Ziz, Arūnas Matelis, Andrius Stonys, Artūras Jevdokimovas, Vytautas V. Landsbergis – went to him on internship in New York. With his help Vilnius this year acquired a valuable collection of Fluxus movement founder Jurgis Mačiūnas. Plans of great ambitions in Vilnius are related with the name of Jonas Mekas – to become the 21st century Avant-Garde Art Centre.
Jonas Mekas, who more than 50 ago became a New Yorker not by his free will, has never forgotten that he is a true son of Lithuania.
2007-07-05
Prime Minister welcomes the agreement on Vilnius Guggenheim Museum Feasibility Study
Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas sent a letter to the Director of Guggenheim Foundation Thomas Krens, congratulating the agreement on preparation of Vilnius Hermitage/ Guggenheim Museum feasibility study.
“I am very glad that this ambitious project is turning into reality less than a year after our first meeting. We already have today the agreement signed to make a feasibility study of the project. I’m convinced that this fact presents a remarkable move forward in the history of Lithuania. It is important for us and symbolic that the two world’s great museums – Guggenheim and Hermitage – will have a joint project here in Vilnius, which is situated at the crossroads between East and West” - Prime Minister says in his letter.
Mr. Kirkilas also wrote that he hopes that the cooperation that began such a warm manner will be very productive and continue way beyond 2009, when Vilnius will become the European Capital of Culture.
2007-04-01
The opening of the FLUXUS bridge symbolically marked the return of the works by J. Mekas and J. Mačiūnas to their homeland Lithuania
The opening on Sunday of the FLUXUS Bridge in Užupis marked the return of the works by Jonas Mekas and Jurgis Mačiūnas to Lithuania. The head of Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Kristijonas Kučinskas, and Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas, on 1 April, unveiled the memorial board near the Vilnius Arts Academy bridge placed there to honour the founder of the FLUXUS movement, Jurgis Mačiūnas, they also anounced about transfer of the works by Jonas Mekas and Jurgis Mačiūnas to Vilnius.
An agreement was signed in New York with the world famous cinematographer, Jonas Mekas, to acquire the collection of the FLUXUS works of art by Jurgis Mačiūnas on behalf of Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre. Soon the first works from this collection will reach Lithuania; the exhibitions of these works are being planned. The first exposition which will be prepared in cooperation with the Maya Stendhal Gallery and will be already later this year, in autumn. Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre is also planning to bring to Lithuania the currently exhibited in New York PS 1 Modern Arts Museum works by Jonas Mekas.
"New York was the home of the two most influential avant-garde representatives – Jonas Mekas and Jurgis Mačiūnas. The international resonance of the FLUXUS world they created will be an impulse for Vilnius to become the new world centre of the XXI century's avant-garde," - Vilnius City Mayor Artūras Zuokas said.
The idea of establishing the FLUXUS museum in Vilnius has already received international support. The specialists of the Whitney American Arts Museum and Princeton University expressed positive attitude toward such idea. According to them, this museum would set Vilnius city on the world cultural map and would give a proper honour to two famous persons from the world of arts.
There has been a constantly growing interest in the FLUXUS movement Over the past years. Not long ago, the Arts Museum of Harvard University acquired an impressive collection of the FLUXUS works. This proves once again that J. Mačiūnas is finally taking the place in history of art, that he is being appropriately acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
2007-04-12
Generous financial support for Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre from UAB AKROPOLIS
Today, in the Vilnius City Hall, the Director of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Kristijonas A. Kučinskas, and the Director of UAB AKROPOLIS, Mindaugas Marcinkevičius, in the presence of Vilnius City Mayor Artūras Zuokas, signed an agreement to give 9 million LTL of financial support to the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, a public institution.
The "Akropolis” shopping and entertainment center has already become a very important part of Vilnius life. Mayor Zuokas said that “Today the directors of this company have again confirmed that they are entrepreneurs who are not seeking short-term profits but a long-term strategy. These entrepreneurs understand that the support for culture is an investment in the future and that business can only successfully develop in those cities that have prominent culture institutions".
UAB AKROPOLIS Director Marcinkevičius said that “any dream can become reality if the people involved have already proved themselves, those whose past work speaks for itself “.
The support provided by UAB AKROPOLIS is the biggest and an exceptionally important contribution to the creation of this world-level multifunctional culture centre, whose partners will be the Hermitage and the Guggenheim Museums.
2007-05-14
Vilniaus miesto valdžios atstovai, Tarybos nariai susitiko su Gugenheimo muziejaus vadovais Europoje ir Amerikoje, VšĮ Jono Meko vizualiųjų meno centro atstovais.
Sostinė svečiai padėkojo, kad miesto valdžia, įsiklausiusi ne tik į Vilniaus, bet ir pasaulio visuomenės nuomonę, nusprendė pakeisti daugiafunkcinio Gugenheimo-Ermitažo kultūros centro statybos vietą.
„Dėkoju miesto valdžiai, kuri įvertino situaciją ir nusprendė pakeisti šio kultūros centro statybų vietą", - sakė Mr. Nikolas V.Iljine, Gugenheimo muziejaus direktorius Europoje
Draugiškame susitikime buvo aptariami Gugenheimo muziejaus projekto įgyvendinimas. Vilniaus meras Juozas Imbrasas iš esmės pritarė šio projekto įgyvendinimui, muziejaus atsiradimo svarbai sostinėje.
„Tačiau reikia visuomenę parengti šiai idėjai, paaiškinti, kas yra Gugenheimo muziejus, kad vilniečiai susigyventų su šia idėja, suprastų, kuo ji mums bus naudinga.. Sužinojau, kad Vilniaus kultūros darbuotojai neprieštarauja idėjai taip pat, bet pajutau, kad trūksta informacijos, žinių, kad vyktų sklandus susikalbėjimas, - sakė miesto meras Juozas Imbrasas.
Miesto svečiai pabrėžė, kad, projektui klostantis palankiai, 2009 metais, kai Vilnius taps Europos Kultūros sostine, Gugenheimo muziejus vykdytų tarpines parodas, kurių metu vilniečiai galėtų susipažinti su realia muziejaus veikla, tai pat miesto valdžiai bus atsiųsta kitų šalių muziejų medžiagos, kuri būtų įdomi Vilniui kaip palyginimas, patirtis.
Svečių teigimu, Vilnius labai palankus miestas šiam projektui įgyvendinti, jų manymu, Gugenheimo projekto bendrumas su Ermitažu, Jono Meko vizualiųjų menų centru kaip niekur kitur pritrauks daug turistų iš kaimyninių šalių - Rusijos, Vokietijos, Baltarusijos , Lenkijos.
Susirinkusieji vienbalsiai sutarė laukti galimybių studijos rezultatų, nuo kurių priklausys tolimesni projekto įgyvendinimo planai, galimybės, tempai. Galimybių studija jau prasideda. 30 proc. šiai studijai skiria Savivaldybė, kiti pinigai - iš privačių fonų, Galimybių studija numatoma baigti kitų metų pirmame ketvirtyje.
Daugiafunkcinio kultūros centro statybų pradžia būtų 2010 metais, pabaiga - 2012 metais. Pastato plotas siektų iki 14 tūkst. kv m. Iki statybų pradžios dar laukia daug žingsnių - galimybių studija, architektų konkursas, veiklos programa, vietos tinkamumo analizė, finansavimo šaltiniai, rinkos tyrimai, muziejaus valdymo mechanizmas. Svarstoma kultūros centro vieta - teritorija prie Baltojo tilto.
Galimybių studija užtruktų iki 12 mėn. - tai realus tyrinėjimas, ar šis projektas bus pradėtas įgyvendinti. Susirinkusieji tikisi, kad galimybių išvados bus palankios.
2007-06-18
The First Part of Jurgis Mačiūnas's Collection "Fluxus" Reaches Vilnius
Today, the first part of Jurgis Mačiūnas's "Fluxus" collection has reached Vilnius. The "Fluxus" collection comprises about 2,600 showpieces. About 500 of them can be found in other collections, but the other 2,100 are unique and will be in Vilnius. The first exposition of the "Fluxus" works will be arranged in November this year. It will be organized by Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre together with Maya Stendhal Gallery.
The collection includes J. Mačiūnas's works created for the "Film-Makers Cinematheque", the magazine "Film Cuture", for J. Mekas's projects, also there are exclusive works and documents that have to do with the establishment of the Soho District, works and texts from the private life of J. Mačiūnas. It includes the works by such prominent avant-garde representatives as Robert Morris, Nam June Paik, Jonas Mekas, Yoko Ono, On Kawara, Donald Judd, Yvonne Rainer, Alison Knowles, Michael Heizer, Joan Jonas, Claes Oldenburg, and others.
An agreement was signed in New York with the world famous cinematographer J. Mekas to acquire the J. Mačiūnas's collection of works of art "Fluxus" for the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre.
"Together with the arrival of the "Fluxus" collection and the commitment to build the museum, Lithuania receives my support and the support of my art friends from all over the world. I know that Jurgis is now happy there in the sky to see that his works, which have been recognized in the world for a long time now, will be displayed in his homeland Lithuania. Small nations often have sceptical attitude toward their fellow-countrymen who win recognition in the world. Instead of being proud of them, we give up them to the others. I am happy that Vilnius brings back the collection of one of the most awe-inspiring Lithuanian artists – the works of J. Mačiūnas – and is the best time to do that," said J. Mekas about the transfer of the collection to Lithuania.
There has been a constantly growing interest in the FLUXUS movement in recent years. J. Mačiūnas is recognized as one of the most prominent artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Not long ago, the Arts Museum of Harvard University acquired an impressive collection of the FLUXUS works. This is why by bringing back to the homeland the works by the two most influential in the world of avant-garde representatives of the Lithuanian emigration – J. Mekas and J. Mačiūnas, Vilnius aspires to become the new XXI century's world centre of avant-garde.
J. Mačiūnas is an exceptional personality – artist and arts historian, architect, designer, producer and publisher, musicologist and mathematician – a person of many talents and interests. The "Fluxus" movement he created in the 60ies of the XX century united various types of arts and rebellious ideology, and became one of the most influential philosophies of the modern world. The "Fluxus" movement was breaking taboos and was looking into the future. It challenged the stagnation of the world of arts and doubted the philistine values of the "prestigious" art. J. Mačiūnas and his followers invented alternative forms for creating art that still influence the entire generations of young artists.
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre was established with the purpose of popularizing the film classics, the intellectual, documentaries, and national films and visual arts. One of the main missions of the centre is to set up a film archive where all the data on the avant-garde films would be accumulated and stored. In the future, the centre is planning to establish the "Fluxus" scientific researches institute which would pay its main attention to the research of the "Fluxus" works of arts. The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre has received the support of the big world's art centres and museums' curators, such as Larry Kardish from the New York Modern Arts Museum, Harry Stendhal from Maya Stendhal Gallery in New York, Dominique Paini from Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, and others.
2007-02-27
Exhibition of Jonas Mekas portraits by Saulius Paukštys - in the cafe "Mano Guru"
On February 28 th, in the cafe "Mano Guru" (Vilniaus str. 22/1) an exhibition of the photographs by Saulius Paukštys, which will present the portraits of Jonas Mekas will be open . The twelve big portraits of the famous artist will be displayed in the big windows of the café. So they can be seen not only by those who are inside the café, but by those who wall by as well.
Saulius Paukštys was taking photographs of Jonas Mekas at the beginning of January, when Mekas came back to Lithuania from Los Angeles, where he received an American Film Award. The portraits were taken in a cosy relaxed atmosphere. They are presented as a kaleidoscope of photos, as if they were shots from a movie, and each such shot is a piece of Jonas Mekas’s life. You can see him smiling, filming the first in that year snow in New York, toasting by saying a poem that sounds as if it were descending from the misty sky of New York.
It would be fair to say, that Jonas Mekas creative work and life was and still is an inspiration for many Lithuanian artists. This is why we can claim that Jonas Mekas is indeed a Guru, a teacher for many artists.
In order to popularise the cinema classics, the intellectual, documentary, and national films, visual arts, the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre is being established in Vilnius by the decision of the Vilnius City Council.
The exhibition of the Jonas Mekas's portraits will be open during the entire month of March.
2007-04-05
Jonas Mekas's Visual Arts Centre To Receive Six Million LTL from private bussiness companies
Today, in the Vilnius City Hall, the director of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Kristijonas A. Kučinskas, and the representatives of the UAB "Ranga Group" and the law firm Lideika, Petrauskas, Valiūnas ir partneriai LAWIN, in the presence of the Vilnius City Mayor, Artūras Zuokas, signed an agreement for financial support for Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, according to which 6 million LTL will be donated to the centre.
"The signing of this agreement is a precedent of a noteworthy business support for culture. This demonstrates the understanding of the Lithuanian entrepreneurs of the important role that a socially responsible business should and can play in the society. The business companies not only improve the economic life of Lithuania, but, in this case, directly improve the quality of life in the country. I do not doubt that this good example will encourage also other entrepreneurs to contribute to the success of this important project," - said the capital city Mayor Artūras Zuokas.
According to the signed agreement, within the period of ten years, UAB "Ranga Group" undertakes to allocate financial support in the amount of 5 million LTL to the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, and the law firm Lideika, Petrauskas, Valiūnas ir partneriai LAWIN, during the coming ten years, will provide the centre with legal assistance, the value of which reaches 1 million LTL.
This support is an especially weighty contribution to the creation of the world-standard multifunctional culture centre, whose partners will be the Hermitage and the Guggenheim museums. The representatives of the companies supporting the establishment of this centre – UAB "Ranga Group" and the law firm Lideika, Petrauskas, Valiūnas ir partneriai LAWIN – will become members of the Patrons Board of the centre, they will continue participating in the processes of establishing this centre and the adoption of the most important decisions.
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Jonas Mekas biography
Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania. He currently lives and works in New York. In 1944, Jonas Mekas and his brother, Adolfas, were taken by the Nazis and imprisoned in a forced labor camp in Nazi Germany for eight months. After the War, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz from 1946-48 and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brother to the U.S. settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York.
Two weeks after his arrival, he borrowed the money to buy his first Bolex 16-mm camera and began to record moments of his life. He discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogel's pioneering cinema 16, and he began screening his own films in 1953.
He has been one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking or the "New American Cinema," as he dubbed it in the late '50s, playing various roles: in 1954, he became editor and chief of Film Culture; in 1958 he began writing his "Movie Journal" column for the Village Voice; in 1962 he co-founded the Film- Makers' Cooperative (FMC) and the Filmmakers' Cinematheque in 1964, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. His own output ranging from narrative films (Guns of the Trees, 1961) to documentaries (the Brig, 1963) and to "diaries" such as Walden (1969); Lost, Lost, Lost, (1975); Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania, (1972); Zefiro torna, (1992) and As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001) have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world.
Recently, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the American Museum of the Moving Image screened Letters from Greenpoint and the Mead Gallery at the University of Warwick, England, Monash University Museum of Art, and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, held exhibitions for Mekas this past fall. In May 2006, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. held a lecture entitled "meet the artist" and screened Reminisces of a Journey to Lithuania.
The Directors Guild of America awarded Anthology Film Archives a DGA Honors recognizing the center's dedication to preserving the art of cinema. In its annual selection of 25 films, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania was esteemed by the United States National Film Preservation Board to be selected for preservation at the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
His films were also screened at Art Basel Miami and Mekas was honored at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's award ceremony for his significant contribution to American film culture. Most recently, the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center was established in Vilnius, Lithuania and exhibitions will focus on art and film collections by Mekas and his friend and artistic collaborator George Maciunas, founder of the Fluxus art movement. Opening in late 2007, the Center will house an extensive avant-garde film archive and library and has plans to build a Fluxus Research Institute.
Fluxus
The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer John Cage in his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage explored notions of chance in art, through works such as 4' 33", which influenced Lithuanian-born artist George Maciunas.[1] Maciunas (1931–1978) organized the first Fluxus event in 1961 at the AG Gallery in New York City and the first Fluxus festivals in Europe in 1962.
While Fluxus was named and loosely organized by Maciunas, the Fluxus community began in a small but global network of artists and composers who were already at work when Maciunas met them through poet Jackson Mac Low in the early 1960s. Cage's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Social Research in New York City were attended by Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht and Dick Higgins, many of whom were working in other media with little or no background in music. Many other artists were invited by Cage to attend his classes unofficially at the New School. Marcel Duchamp and Allan Kaprow (who is credited as the creator of the first "happenings") were also influential to Fluxus. In its early days Fluxus artists were active in Europe (especially in Germany), and Japan as well as in the United States.
Fluxus encouraged a do it yourself aesthetic, and valued simplicity over complexity. Like Dada before it, Fluxus included a strong current of anti-commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice. As Fluxus artist Robert Filliou wrote, however, Fluxus differed from Dada in its richer set of aspirations, and the positive social and communitarian aspirations of Fluxus far outweighed the anti-art tendency that also marked the group.
In terms of an artistic approach, Fluxus artists preferred to work with whatever materials were at hand, and either created their own work or collaborated in the creation process with their colleagues. Outsourcing part of the creative process to commercial fabricators was not usually part of Fluxus practice. Maciunas personally hand-assembled many of the Fluxus multiples and editions. While Maciunas assembled many objects by hand, he designed and intended them for mass production. Where many multiple publishers produced signed, numbered objects in limited editions intended for sale at high prices, Maciunas produced open editions at low prices. Several other Fluxus publishers produced different kinds of Fluxus editions. The best known of these was Something Else Press, a book publishing company established by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins. Something Else Press was probably the largest and most extensive Fluxus publisher, producing books in editions that ran from 1,500 copies to as many as 5,000 copies, all available at standard bookstore prices.
Vision and objectives of Multifunctional Cultural centre
Jonas Mekas
„Let me dream...What should this Center do besides housing and occasionaly showing Maciunas and Mekas works ?
It shouldnt be a Museum, that is, a Center, a place devoted only to its collections. I mean, works by Maciunas/Fluxus and myself.
It should be a place for living working artists, working im film, video, computer, mixed media fields from all over the world, to present their works. It should also be a center, a place to present retrospectives and surveys of works of artists, working in the above mentioned fields, from the past.
It should carry the flag of the avantgardes of all of the arts“
Vision
It‘s very important in this world without borders to create new cultural centres in places that before were not known to attract art lovers.
The decentralization of culture in this age of globalisation is vital because it leads to the discovery of new places. Right now, there are no cultural centres in Eastern and Central Europe that could comprehensively present a full range of local artists and could also bring the work of the best world artists to local communities as well.
The Multifunctional Cultural Centre in Vilnius will be the place where art lovers from Lithuania and the whole region will be introduced to the history of world avant-garde art and its best living artists
The Multifunctional Cultural Centre in Vilnius will be the place, where the past and present of .Eastern and Western cultures will meet.
The Multifunctional Cultural Centre in Vilnius will present to the world the most interesting and oustanding artists from Lithuania and the surrounding region, working in different genres of avant-garde art.
The Multifunctional Cultural Centre in Vilnius will educate new generations of artists and art lovers, it will be the place where art work are both displayed and created and where a dialogue between different cultures will be an ongoing process
Lithuania and Vilnius will be a major site on the world‘s culture map
Objectives of establishment
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To elevate culture as a virtue in modern society and as the driving force in city development
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To enhance national pride, and to promote cultural and community participation in establishing a culture within a modern European society
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To promote Vilnius – European Cultural Capital 2009
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To return to Lithuania the art heritage of Lithuanian emigrants
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To make good conditions for Lithuanian artists to become a part of European and World culture
Structure
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Hermitage/ Guggenheim Museum
Long-term and special rotating contemporary art exhibitions
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Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Gallery
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George Maciunas and FLUXUS exhibitions
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Litvak Art Center
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Non-commercial film screening halls
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Cinémathèque
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Arts Education Center for young people
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Other spaces
cafes, mini-conference halls, library and museum store
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Andy at work
Andy Warhol at the Village Gate, June 7, 1966. Andy
videotaping John Kennedy, Jr. and Anthony Radziwill at Andy’s estate, 1971, in
Montauk, Long Island. Andy at work in his studio, 1976, Union Square, New York.
Lee Radziwill, Peter Beard, Gerard Malanga, Peter Orlovsky, Ed Sanders, and
Ronna Page are also pictured.
Sound: Music by
Dalius Naujo and August Varkalis
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12:00 |
Factory award
Filmed in December of 1964 at Andy Warhol’s
Factory, this film shows Andy with some of his friends and superstars-
Baby Jane Holzer, Ivy Nicholson, Gerard Malanga, Gregory Battcock, and
Gregory Markopoulos. Jonas Mekas presents to Andy Warhol a Film Culture
magazine Award for his film, Sleep: A Basket of Fruit, Which Then They All
Eat.
Narration: Jonas Mekas talks about life in
Andy’s Factory
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05:11 |
Kennedy QTM
This is footage from an unfinished film biography of
Jackie Onasis and Lee Radziwill that I was in the process of making in 1972, but
which was never completed.It contains moments from Jackie and Lee at home, some
of which are rare photos that were made available to me,
etc.
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04:51 |
Kreutzer Sonata
This was taped during the editing of my film As
I WasMoving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. It shows
how I work, edit, and tape. It is a glimpse into my way of
working.
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04:37 |
Moires and Dali
This was filmed on January 24, 1964 during Prof.
Oster’s demonstration of moirés patterns. He is shown with Salvador
Dali.
Sound: Voices of
Prof. Oster and Salvador Dali.
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07:50 |
To John with Love
This was filmed on October 9, 1972 in Syracuse,
N.Y., on John Lennon’s Birthday; during Lennon/Yoko Ono concert at Madison
Square Garden, August 30, 1972; and December 8, 1980, Central Park, New
York. The film includes John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ringo Star, George
Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Specter, Stevie Wonder, and many
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Sound: Improvisations during the birthday
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Companies and institutions
AKROPOLIS, UAB - www.akropolis.lt
Ranga group
Advokatų kontora : www.lawin.lt
Ūkio bankas
UAB "Garsų pasaulis"
Statybų bendrovė - Remada
AB "Panevėžio keliai"
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Viešoji įstaiga Jono Meko vizualiųjų menų centras Direktorius:
Kristijonas Algirdas Kučinskas
Kristijonas@mekas.lt
Biuras (administracija):
Lvovo 25, Vilnius
Tel. 8 611 24166
El. p. info@mekas.lt
Jono Meko vizualiųjų menų centras (galerija)
Gynėjų g.14 (Vilniaus vartų kompleksas), Vilnius
Darbo laikas:
Antradienis- šeštadienis: 12-19val.
Nedarbo dienos:
Sekmadienis ir pirmadienis.
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