Quititudes. Liudvikas Natalevičius

Silence is a state; the act of silence is an action. In the latest works of painter Liudvikas Natalevičius, silence has been tamed. It’s no coinscidence these works are left untitled; they are acts of silence. Silence as time. Silence as place. And silence as feeling.

Through abstraction, through lightdark, through beginningending (according to the author, this should be written as one word because it represents two ends of the same stick), the canvases serve as coordinates that fix the state where one can come and remain for a while in silence.

“A black and red stream enters the viewer’s retina. Barely breathing, it shimmers and ripples. In the vortex of this flow, a ball of light condenses, exploding with the force of a sneeze. The being presses itself into memory like a fossil imprint. The being remains with its head bowed. There is a sense that whoever is watching is connected to the resting being by a bridge of silence. And both know they have met at a time that was meant for meeting.”

Audronė Urbonaitė

 

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The painter Liudvikas Natalevičius was born on September 25, 1954, in Vilnius and has lived in Klaipėda since 1981. From 1975 to 1981, he studied painting at the Lithuanian Art Institute (now the Vilnius Academy of Arts) and became a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association in 1989. He has held and participated in about 20 solo and group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. His works are included in the Lithuanian Art Foundation collection