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SUMMARY:Ernestas Žvaigždinas. Seven-Colour Constellation
DESCRIPTION:Marking a beautiful birthday milestone, painter Ernestas Žvaigždinas launched a marathon of intimate exhibitions as early as December. The first exhibition, This Side of the Horizon, which surprised admirers of Žvaigždinas’s work with paintings in an unusual horizontal format, is on view until 31 January at the White Gallery of the Ieva Simonaitytė Public Library in Klaipėda. The second exhibition, Seven-Colour Constellation, opens on Thursday, 16 January 2026, at 5.30 pm in the chamber exhibition spaces of the Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, and will run until 15 February. A third exhibition is scheduled for March, shortly before the artist’s birthday, and will take place at the Klaipėda Castle Museum.\nAnyone who has ever tried to express themselves in words knows how much suffering, tension and effort it involves. How stubbornly words resist; how unexpectedly it becomes clear that they can mean something entirely different – something you never intended to say at all. The sounds of music begin to live their own lives, turning into unexpected harmonies, chords and melodies.\nIt is no less complex to take up paint: to master the countless techniques of painting, to play with colour, in order to express oneself. How difficult it is to reveal one’s inner self to another – one’s mind, one’s soul, one’s heart. Not the world, not what lies beyond the window, not what is in the street, the room, or on the table, but what lies within you. For what exists in the world can be shown on television, through binoculars, through a microscope or a telescope. So-called “reality” can be pointed out with a finger. What is in the world can be seen without any artist. But to show and express oneself is possible only by creating another world – a parallel world.\nThere is something quixotic in this relentless, unceasing struggle of the artist with colour. Something akin to falling in love. Painting can become such a Dulcinea: once you have seen her, you cannot forget her. The world is full of dulcineas, around every corner. But your Dulcinea is the only one that matters to you. She happened to you, struck you, became your destiny. When you think that you might just as well have fallen in love with medicine, chemistry, literature, or religion. What you would be now, where you might have ended up. How you might have emerged victorious, or perhaps defeated, in that struggle called life.\nFor Ernestas Žvaigždinas, Dulcinea, singular and irreplaceable, has been and remains painting, saturated with the most wondrous colours. The colouristic character of his paintings is highly dynamic and changeable, and his palette resembles a map of emotions, in which the artist’s emotional experiences are recorded like entries in a personal diary – from complete calm to overwhelming passion, dramatic intensity, or turmoil. In Žvaigždinas’s paintings, tones of sea and sky blue or softer, earthbound colours may dominate, or vivid, richly saturated yellows, oranges, and intense reds may suddenly emerge. The painter often turns to a red palette when creating a visual narrative of his native city. These warm hues lend the works expression and energy and clearly evoke the old town of Klaipėda.\nŽvaigždinas is easily recognisable through the rich, impasto brushstrokes that have become firmly established in his work. Having mastered the impasto technique with confidence, Žvaigždinas boldly applies thick layers of paint to the canvas, creating surfaces that are dense, textured, and tactile. In this way, his works acquire a distinctive texture that is rough yet dynamic.\nLine remains of great importance in Žvaigždinas’s painting. A network of intersecting, interweaving, dividing and defining lines is woven into the silhouettes of half-timbered houses, the clavier-like rhythms of tiled roofs, and the vertical cadence of ships’ masts. Žvaigždinas’s principal painting tool is not the traditional brush but the palette knife. Like a virtuoso professional, he handles the knife with ease across the surface of the canvas, carving his own signs and impressions into the thick layers of paint.\nŽvaigždinas has never chased fashions or attempted to appear overly modern. He remains faithful to his own style and a largely consistent painterly manner. We have come to recognise and feel close to the recurring themes in his work: motifs of his native Klaipėda, romanticised images of ships and sails, and stylised silhouettes of angels and women. In the work of artists from Klaipėda, the theme of the sea or of ships is almost inevitable, as though it were woven into the DNA of the city’s inhabitants. Žvaigždinas chooses not to document the sea but to convey its spirit, rhythm and mood, drawing on other elements characteristic of his work.\n“I violate historical truth,” the painter has said in one interview. “The city I create does not exist.” In order to construct one’s own image of a city, historical truth is not the most important thing. Often it is the emotional plane of the image that proves more powerful. Motifs and objects in Žvaigždinas’s paintings are freely displaced into other spaces, linked through unexpected relationships, and transformed into a new artistic reality: our port city rendered as something mythical.\nThe painter enjoys juggling formats. His works may be very small, like visual sketches from an immanent diary, or very large, intended to dominate the surrounding space. This shifting of formats is elegantly illustrated in the exhibition Seven-Colour Constellation by a surprise prepared by Žvaigždinas himself: seven dozen abstract colour miniatures forming a constellation of colours.\nThe classical rainbow consists of seven colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. In the spectrum, they are arranged from violet, with the shortest wavelength, to red, with the longest. This entire chromatic rainbow is inscribed into small painted squares which, once the exhibition has ended, Žvaigždinas intends to give away to friends and colleagues, wishing them all the best in the New Year.\nLiutauras Degėsys\nBirutė Skaisgirienė\n
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