{"id":236378,"date":"2026-09-25T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/?post_type=event&p=236378"},"modified":"2026-09-25T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:04:43","slug":"lt-tarp-realyb-s-ir-sapno-pasaulis-kuriame-nor-iau-gyventi-r-filistovi-ius-en-between-reality-and-dream-the-world-i-would-like-to-live-in-ri-ardas-filistovi-ius-ru-ri-ardo-filistovi-iaus-tapybos-par","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/event\/between-reality-and-dream-the-world-i-would-like-to-live-in-ri-ardas-filistovi-ius\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Reality and Dream: The World I Would Like to Live In | Ri\u010dardas Filistovi\u010dius"},"content":{"rendered":"

The solo exhibition \u201cThe World I Would Like to Live In\u201d by painter Ri\u010dardas Filistovi\u010dius, dedicated to the artist\u2019s 75th anniversary, presents a broad panorama of his work spanning several decades. The exhibition brings together early works from the 1970s from the collections of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and MO Museum, alongside 26 of the artist\u2019s most recent paintings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ri\u010dardas Filistovi\u010dius is known for his distinctive artistic language, combining modernist expression, surreal imagery and principles of classical painting. An individualist throughout his artistic career, he has created a unique imaginative world in which human drama, passion and philosophical reflection intertwine with fantasy and reality.<\/p>\n

One of the most recognisable motifs in Filistovi\u010dius\u2019s work is the Old Town of Vilnius \u2013 its streets, intersections, parks, squares, architectural fragments and church towers. Yet in his paintings, Vilnius is more than a recognisable urban landscape. It becomes a stage for a mysterious, theatrical world where reality merges with fantasy and familiar cityscapes are inhabited by monumental human figures, strange creatures, animals and echoes of art history.<\/p>\n

His work is rich in metaphors, paradoxes, symbols, quotations, sarcasm and self-irony. Elements of classical painting encounter signs of contemporary civilisation \u2013 vivid colour accents, inscriptions, urban signs and geometric forms. By altering scale and disrupting conventional spatial relationships, streets and cities appear amid seas and vast skies, transforming familiar reality into a dreamlike, surreal world.<\/p>\n

The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Filistovi\u010dius\u2019s 1981 painting \u201cThe World I Would Like to Live In\u201d, held in the collection of MO Museum. The title also captures the essence of the artist\u2019s broader practice \u2013 a consistent desire to extend the experience of reality through painting and to create a world of his own, where Vilnius, people, nature, history and imagination exist according to different rules.<\/p>\n

About the artist<\/p>\n

Ri\u010dardas Filistovi\u010dius was born in Vilnius in 1951. From 1969 to 1975, he studied painting at the State Art Institute (now the Vilnius Academy of Arts) and has participated in exhibitions since 1978. For many years, he taught art at Adam Mickiewicz Gymnasium in Vilnius. In 1999\u20132000, he was awarded the highest-level Lithuanian state scholarship for artists. His works are held in the collections of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art, MO Museum, as well as in private collections in Lithuania and abroad.<\/p>\n

Exhibition curator: Nijol\u0117 Nev\u010desauskien\u0117<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":236379,"template":"","categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"ticket-vendor":[],"class_list":["post-236378","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nemokami-renginiai","category-parodos"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t