Opening of the Painting Exhibition "Breath of Distant Mountains" by Marius Abramavičius
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Marius Abramavičius is an exceptional artist who travels extensively throughout Asia – not only a photographer and painter, but also a writer and traveler. He has held over 70 personal painting exhibitions and participated in over 33 joint exhibitions. He has published 10 books and albums. Here are the humorous descriptions of his travels to Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan, and the Chronicle of the Užupis Republic. Everywhere he is full of philosophical insights – cultural wit and unique images. In recent years, the artist has been traveling extensively through the mountains and countries of old archaic cultures and civilizations – Nepal, India, Bali.
In this exhibition, the painter reveals his experiences of his stay in the sacred places of India and Nepal - near Arunachiala and in the valleys and mountains of the Himalayas. In his paintings, the creator expresses the world seen from his deeply personal point of view, permeated with vitality and psychic, spiritual fire. The forms of vegetation and inanimate nature in his works are immersed in a symbolic and decorative tension of space and color. Therefore, his visible symbolist images of the world do not seek to speak of earthly rocks or calmly swaying vegetation and a smooth sky - on the contrary - they are full of biomorphic flexibility and movement, as if flying in a heated, difficult to describe, perhaps even cosmic space. The painter seeks to convey what a person, in everyday, ordinary life, cannot notice and touch at all. The images of sensual, sublime, spiritualized color and vibration of forms "sing" the world that exists beyond noise, speech and words, expressing what lies beyond silence or, in other words, in the waves of inner dance, in the deeper experiences of the soul. Therefore, the shapes of the mountains in the artist's paintings begin to resemble colorfully transformed tongues of flame, and the stars, sun, moon, clouds, fog and snow - the swirling rise of smoke and sparks into the clouds. The artist's visions are an obvious alternative to realistic documentary.
Art critic Dr. Vytautas Tumėnas
These paintings are born from special places around the world: the sacred Mount Arunachala in India, the shamanic volcanic landscape of Bali and the majestic Himalayas in Nepal. Mountains are a constant source of inspiration for me – they contain a grandeur that is difficult to describe in words. They lift you up, envelop you with their power and free you from the flow of everyday thoughts. Each place vibrates in its own way, and I create by resonating with these vibrations. These works are encounters with local energies, with local deities and powerful volumes.
I create my studio in different places, either in India, Bali, or Nepal – the canvases are purchased and the works are painted there, in those countries. In 2024/2025, these works that you see now were born – at the sacred Arunachala mountain, in magical and shamanic Bali, and in the majestic Himalayan mountains in Nepal.
