Vaidas Tamošiūnas' photography exhibition "Light and Rhythm in the Images of Vilnius" is dedicated to the historical 700th anniversary of Vilnius. The epicenter of the exhibition is the city's objects, architectural monuments, and the author's moods and expressions, captured with his distinctive photographic techniques. The impulsive rhythm of the photographs and the expressive play of light and shadow create a romantically joyful, but also meditative and mystical atmosphere as if full of sound. This is the musician's touch with the emotional and spiritual world of the city.
More than a hundred years ago, the composer Mikalojus Kontantinas Čiurlionis' love for Vilnius was born, and he gave art lovers many visions of the city of the great artist. Now, the wonders of Vilnius, discovered in the musician's photographic viewfinder today, enter the exhibition hall of the Čiurlionis House in Vilnius and sound with new resonance.
Vaidas Tamošiūnas is a professional musician who has been playing the cello in the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra since 1995. Since the time of his studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, and especially its Old Town, has been the subject of his research. The city has always fascinated the musician with its dynamism, rhythmicity, and ability to change. To capture this, the author remembered his old passion – photography.
Vaidas Tamošiūnas. Vilniaus ritmas IV 1/10, 2022
The exhibition features artworks created using several techniques. Some of them are made with the help of modern digital technologies as if to underline Vilnius' ability to change and surprise us, while at the same time hiding its multiformity and multilayeredness. Other photographs are made using analog and pinhole techniques (pinhole or camera obscura is a 19th-century technique in which light penetrating through small hole projects an inverted image onto the wall of a completely dark room).
Nowadays, the pinhole technique is used by photographers not only out of curiosity but also to create highly artistic photographs. They make cameras out of coffee, tea, or tobacco packs, which are drilled with a hole, and a light-sensitive material is placed inside. When photographed in this way, one can capture (and expose) the image for a very long time: a minute, an hour, or even a day. The latter technique obliges the photographer to stop and take his/her time, thus discovering new faces, angles, and shadows of Vilnius.
The author created the works on display by using an old wide-angle camera "MoPinhole", modified by Raimundas Bernadickas from Panevėžys.
The exhibition will run until 25 March 2023.
OPENING HOURS:
Tuesday to Friday: from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday: from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday and Sunday: CLOSED.
