Virgis | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Virgis
- Lithuania
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According to the great Swiss-German artist Paul Klee: "A line is a point that has gone for a walk." This also applies to my art.
Virgis was born and raised in a small town in Lithuania under the communist regime. Intelligence, culture and belief constitute a defence against the regime for his mother who sent him to art school when he was 12 years old. This was his first experience with art. There he discovered the culture and the arts of the free countries of the West: his vocation as an artist was born. Naturally he turned to study art at the University, and after graduation he became an art teacher at a secondary school. The Gorbachev regime somewhat freed society and Virgis could finally indulge in its creation.
In the 90s, he began offering his work in various local exhibitions. At the time, the artwork of Marc Chagall was the inspiration of a great majority of his work. The meeting with two French artists, Anne de Beaufort and Michèle Volsy, was a milestone in his artistic life, and Virgis instinctively changed the nature of his work and devoted himself to abstract painting.
In the 90s, he began offering his work in various local exhibitions. At the time, the artwork of Marc Chagall was the inspiration of a great majority of his work. The meeting with two French artists, Anne de Beaufort and Michèle Volsy, was a milestone in his artistic life, and Virgis instinctively changed the nature of his work and devoted himself to abstract painting.
He uses oil paint on canvas to express emotions and feelings: fear, grief, joy or worry. For Virgis, these feelings are as abstract as real as life. Today, artists like Stanley F. Kline, Robert Motherwell, Pierre Soulages and Dubuffet are references for Virgis. He is a professor of painting and graphic art in an art school in Lithuania.
Virgis finds inspiration in his environment and what it conveys. His painting is sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter. Through his abstract work he speaks of the uncertainty of life. The difficult context in which his vocation as an artist was born determines all his work and gives it its strength and depth.
Virgis finds inspiration in his environment and what it conveys. His painting is sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter. Through his abstract work he speaks of the uncertainty of life. The difficult context in which his vocation as an artist was born determines all his work and gives it its strength and depth.
- France :
- - Angers
- - Bourges
- - Colmar
- - Dijon
- - Grenoble
- - Le Touquet
- - Levallois-Perret
- - Lille
- - Lyon l'Expo
- - Marseille
- - Marseille l'Expo
- - Nice
- - Paris 18 Montmartre
- - Paris 6 l'Expo
- - Rueil Malmaison
- - Saint-Etienne
- - Saint-Germain-en-Laye
- - Strasbourg Orfèvres (2)
- - Toulon
- - Toulouse
- - Tours
- - Troyes
- - Versailles
- United States of America (the) :
- 2023Participation in the Affordable Art Fair with the gallery in VilniusBrussels, Belgium
- 2022Participation in the Affordable Art Fair with the Vilnius galleryAmsterdam, Netherlands (the)
- 2019Personal exhibition in the galleryKlaipeda, Lithuania
- 2018Personal exhibition in the galleryVilnius, Lithuania
- 1962BirthRadviliskis, Lithuania
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Shades
36 x 36 cm495 €Virgis
Retrackile
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
Tremendous vision
36 x 36 cm495 €Virgis
Autumn garden
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
Before and after
13 x 13 cm120 €Virgis
A few moments later
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
Before the rain
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
FROM THE LEFT
13 x 13 cm120 €Virgis
To the light
13 x 13 cm120 €Virgis
An ambitious dream
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Virgis
Difficult decision
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
Suburbs
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
Good fortune
36 x 36 cm495 €Virgis
Promises of nights
36 x 36 cm495 €Virgis
Testing the sky
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
Almost out of place
13 x 13 cm120 €Virgis
August
13 x 13 cm120 €Virgis
First few days
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
SECRECY OF A SHADOW
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
Catching some sun
36 x 36 cm495 €Virgis
Landscape
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
In the middle or along
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
Against the wind
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
SENSATION
36 x 36 cm495 €Virgis
Forecast for summer
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
A short term effect
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
Coming evening
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
Cool day
36 x 36 cm495 €Virgis
Coming soon
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
Aspects of the game
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
Stability
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
A night without rest
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
One evening
13 x 13 cm120 €Virgis
Into the deepest blue
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Virgis
Secret
13 x 13 cm120 €Virgis
See you later
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
Peace is disturbed
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
Autumn proposal
19 x 19 cm180 €Virgis
In love
13 x 13 cm120 €Virgis
The excitement of tomorrow
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Virgis
Beyond the summer
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
PERFECT IMPERFECTION
25 x 25 cm285 €Virgis
Desire
19 x 19 cm180 €