JUOZAS LAIVYS
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Current and upcoming exhibitions
From the 12th of June
Where is the exhibition? (by Juozas Laivys, Antanas Gerlikas & Tomas Danilevicius)
Galerija Pies, Poznan
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Selected documentation
On the 3rd of September 2009 a game of dice was played in a sailing yacht following which five marble pieces of dice where drowned into a lake to make an exhibition of underwater sculpture. A single dice was left above the water level.
A traveling bird's-nest, 2009
Bird's-nest, cardboard box (15 x 20 cm)
Installation view at 7mal2, Berlin
Juozas Laivys, 2008
B/W print (37 x 33 cm, framed)
A single-use camera containing a film which is not yet fully exposed, 2003
A disposable camera
Shaft of a hammer broken with another hammer, 2003
Hammer (10 x 30 cm)
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Artist’s statement:
The starting point of my artistic work is an action in present time. The possibility to act is an undisputable fact of the present. Since we exist here, at the point full of evidence from the past, and the existence in the future has not still been proven, the possibility to form events now is the essential act, which can summarize the issues I am addressing in my work. Concentrated pleasure with the present moment, referring to the criteria of minimalist conceptualism, allows one to speak about a creative practice cleared from narcotic substances, mental disability or fake creative suffering. Falsehood in any form must be ignored. This is my basic moral position. Artwork for me is an object in space, which confirms an authentic fact, witnesses an event or a specific incident. An action from the past may be directly reflected in a specific object or it can be only implied. In my work, I do not try to humiliate or harm anyone; instead, I suggest enjoying one’s ability to notice and carry out certain changes.
Juozas Laivys
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