False Recognition
Curated by Evaldas Stankevičius, with advice from Anders Kreuger and Magda Kardasz
Organized by Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius and Lithuanian Artists' Union

Many of the problems contemporary painters are facing are not new. Shall painting be used to make images, or shall it by-pass any quest for illusion and express itself through gesture and tactility? Shall painting stay on the surface or shall it create depth? Shall it visualise ideas or attract attention to its own materiality?

So, can painting articulate any new thoughts? Newness in painting might be something that at first looks very small, even insignificant. It might be a change of tone rather than a change of programme. It might be a shift in confidence or craftsmanship, a dexterity or an awkwardness that we have not seen before in this precise constellation. It might be ‘a new way of seeing’ that manifests itself as painting.

The 14th Vilnius Painting Triennial takes a broad look at what ‘new thoughts in painting’ might mean, and also at some ‘new names in painting’: artists who exemplify the tension between tradition and newness and whose work embodies different attitudes towards the image, the gesture, time and subjectivity.

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