Everyone Wants to be Happy03 – 17 May 2024
By Lithuanian Artist Raminta Mozūraitienė
Artist statement:
I truly believe that the real nature of the spiritual soul is the desire to be happy. Everyone tries in all possible ways to become delighted, whether consciously or unconsciously. We often hope that the future, another person, or a new thing will bring us joy and open the door to an eternity full of real and endless happiness. Just being happy is immensely hard work these days. Our mind is full of the strangest ideas, which sometimes do not help us at all. This exhibition, full of mystical motifs, reveals how I fell in love with the colours of India, the beauty of culture, nature, and animals, and how I was mesmerized by the wave of Indian incense, sounds, spirituality, and colourfulness. The motifs depicted in the exhibition completely ignore the laws of anatomy and logic. I combine the elements of reality and fairy tales, thus allowing both aspects to exist simultaneously. I am still not aware of exactly what eternal happiness is and where it can be discovered, but I believe that India has many special recipes to find that out.
Raminta Mozūraitienė
in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania and the Gallery Rooster
About artist:
Raminta Blazeviciute – Mozuraitiene (b. 1993) is a painter of the young generation. She completed her M.A. in painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2018. Since 2014, Blazeviciute has been actively participating in group shows, plein air painting sessions and competitions.
Raminta’s work visualises a journey into the inner world, in which reality is intertwined with dreams, and future prospects mingle with memories of the past. The artist draws attention to the duality of everything: starting from two sides of the inner self that are in constant struggle, relations with the closest environment and people, and ending with bipolarity, which has various manifestations in culture, social organisation etc. While testing the relations between the opposite poles, the artist is in constant search of their harmony and discovers paradoxes produced by the collision of opposites. She challenges the monotony and predictability of daily life, and fights it with the help of alogisms, irony and elements of play and fairy tales. Thus, for her painting language the artist draws inspiration from primitive art, surrealism, and the principles of magical realism. She disregards the laws of perspective and anatomy, imitates the aesthetics of children’s work.