“FAR AWAY, CLOSE NEAR / CLOSE NEAR, FAR AWAY” – Rytas Jurgelis watercolor exhibition

On July 7 at 7:00 PM, we invite you to the opening evening of Rytas Jurgelis’ watercolor exhibition “TOLIMI ARTIMI, ARTIMI TOLIMI”. The event is free of charge.

Rytas Jurgelis’ work is not defined by narrative or explicit statements, but by a distinctive inner state it creates. Critics who have written about his painting—from Vidas Poškus, who saw antique, Heraclean monumental structures, to Rolandas Rastauskas, who described Jurgelis’ works as “maps of consciousness” and the square as a spiritual home, and contemporary reviewers calling them a “silent world”—all point to the same core quality from different angles.

Jurgelis’ painting never tries to meet the viewer loudly. It waits. Its structural basis—a square, a rectangle, a static, almost architectural form—always contains an opposing force: color that moves, breathes, and speaks about time, memory, and light as an inner rather than physical category. Human presence is never shown directly—neither as figure nor portrait—but is constantly felt as a trace, a memory, something that has passed yet has not disappeared. At once distant and close.

(excerpt from Karolina Kupstaitė’s text)

Rytas Jurgelis (b. 1961) is a Lithuanian painter and watercolor artist. Since 1986 he has participated in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad (Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, etc.). Since 1995 he has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association. His works are held in private collections in Lithuania, the USA, Australia, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.

The exhibition runs from July 7 to August 2. Visiting requires a ticket.

Ticket prices:

• Opening event: free of charge
• Regular admission: €3 (adults), €2 (students and seniors)
• Free admission: schoolchildren, people with disabilities, press representatives, and Ukrainian visitors