EXPOSITION
OF THE PAINTER – GRAPHIC ARTIST MARCE KATILIUTE
Address
Vaizguciai village, Laimuze farmstead, LT-84256, Gatauciai area, Joniskis
district.
Telephone nr. +370-426-52492.
Information
for Visitors
Working hours:
A visit to the exposition can be arranged by contacting the administration
of Joniskis History and Culture Museum or by making an appointment by
telephone in advance (nr. +370-426-52492).
Tickets: The entrance is free of charge.
Exposition
There are about 100 reproductions
of the artist`s works exhibited in two-room premises of the museum. The
exposition also introduces the life story of Marce Katiliute.
About
the Museum
In Laimuze farmstead of Gatauciai
area (Joniskis district), where some time ago, while spending her summer
at her relatives (1912-1937), the painter-graphic artist Marce Katiliute
had produced a number of works, a museum has been inaugurated. The
initiators of the museum are the writers` club Audruve of Joniskis
and its former president L.Ripskyte, who had submitted the museum`s
finance project to the Ministry of Culture. Owing to the means obtained
from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and non-governmental
organizations, two rooms (donated by the artist`s relatives) have been
repaired. The museum was founded in 1999.
Marce
Katiliute
In 1935 M. Katiliute graduated
from Kaunas Art School. In 1936 she worked as a teacher in Palanga, in
1937 the would-be artist worked as a preservationist in Kaunas Ciurlionis
Art Museum. Her first personal exhibition was held in 1940. Already the
early pictures, sketches, engravings of Marce Katiliute (`gratazas` Nasta
(The Burden), flax engravings I talka (Coming to Help),
Motina (The Mother), Zadina (Awakening) - all
produced in 1935) had been influenced by Lithuanian folk art; they
represent love towards the man.
The most of the artist`s works were created on the subject of `woman
life`. They highlight social moments (Moteris su dviem vaikais (A
Woman With Two Children), 1935; Bulves skuta (Peeling
Potatoes), 1936; they depict inner (the portrait of the artist`s
mother, 1935; the portrait of the sister Stase, 1936; the self-portrait,
1936), dramatic, even tragical states of the man (Miske (In the
Forest), Urte (a woman`s name), both in 1936). The artist
M.Katiliute has also produced a number of illustrations for the following
books: Kiskelio uzrasai (The Leveret`s Notes) by
Vytautas Tamulaitis, 1935; Napalys bailys (Napalys the Coward)
by Petras Cvirka, 1936; Aukstuju Simoniu likimas (The Fate of
the Simoniai from Aukstujai Area) by Ieva Simonaityte, 1936;
unpublished; received a gold medal of the world exhibition in Paris
in1937; after death) as well as paintings. The artist`s productions are
realistic, emotional, metaphorical, reflecting folk outlook and delicately
rendering the spiritual man`s world. Their characteristic features
include: simple composition, generalized sculpture forms, rich drawing,
expressive and dynamic carving.
(Adapted from the
publication of N.Sabaniene Ikurtas Marces Katiliutes muziejus (The
Museum of M. Katiliute Has Been Established)/ Museology Report,
1999, Nr.5.
