Young New Graphic Art: Metaphysics of a Book

During 8–30 November 2024, an exhibition titled “Young New Graphic Art: Metaphysics of a Book“ will take place at the Vilnius Graphic Art Centre’s Kairė–dešinė gallery. The exhibition opening will be held on 8 November 2024 at 5 pm. (Latako str. 3, Vilnius)

Now in its third year, the ongoing project „Young New Graphic Art“  focuses on the emerging generation of graphic artists and explores the contemporary graphic art scene. The show highlights both traditional approaches to graphic art and the relationship between graphic images / phenomena and interdisciplinary practices.

The exhibition showcases works by emerging graphic artists from the Department of Graphic Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. The selection includes books, book-objects, artist books, and installation-like book projects that incorporate space, sound, light, multimedia, and information technologies. These works rethink the concept of the book, offering alternative visual forms that transform the book into both an art object and a medium for interpreting and exploring existence, philosophy, aesthetics, and other complex themes.

The young artists featured in this exhibition raise key questions: What is a book, and how do we understand it today? How are our perceptions of books today influenced by factors such as prior knowledge, visual form, content, concept, materiality, or tactile experience? The exhibited works use artistic actions to challenge traditional notions of the book’s structure, matter, and aesthetic conventions, expanding the possibilities of its impact. Exploring new roles for the book as a medium of information, the exhibition reveals how the incorporation of contemporary media can extend the transmission of the book’s idea in novel formats. In this way, the book becomes an object of interpretation and philosophical inquiry – sometimes even surpassing its traditional function as a mere vessel for knowledge and data.

Participating artists:

Mindaugas Aniūnas, Rugilė Beržonskytė, Rokas Bilinskas, Rokas Bočkus, Saulė Budriūnaitė, Andrius Bursovas, Anna Chostegian, Povilas Dūda, Jonė Dūdaitė, Julius Gaižauskas, Emilija Grigaliūnaitė-Čepulė, Jokūbas Griška, Smiltė Jablonskytė, Dominyka Jakutovič, Ugnė Janeliauskaitė, Marija Gabrielė Karputė, Tomas Kavarskas, Emilė Krutulytė, Leonardas Mekionis, Elzė Milašiūtė, Ieva Narutavičiūtė, Kotryna Navickaitė, Ūla Norvilaitė, Liepa Okulič-Kazarinaitė, Nastassia Pazniak, Kornelijus Pelkys, Daria Podluzhna, Paulė Popovaitė, Mantas Puodžiukaitis, Gintautė Siniakovaitė, Alvė Skauronaitė,

Austėja Skrupskaitė, Aidas Stončius, Justina Tamulevičiūtė, Liepa Sofija Vareikaitė, Izabelė Žepnickaitė, Eitvydas Žukas.

* The exhibition is a part of the Book Design Conference [6 pt].

Programme:

16 November: [6 pt] book design conference Alchemy of a Book, VAA Chess Hall, Malūnų st. 5.
From 12 November: Best Book Design from all over the World exhibition (Stiftung Buchkunst, Germany), and Найкращий книжковий дизайн / The Best Book Design Contest exhibition (Mystetskyi Arsenal, Ukraine), VAA gallery “5 malūnai“, Malūnų st. 5.

17 November: 10 am – 6 pm: artist’s book and art book fair Naked Print and Identita movie about Czech book publishing screening, VAA Chess Hall, Malūnų st. 5.

23 November, 1 pm: A meeting and a guided tour of the exhibition with the curators and the authors, VGAC, Latako st. 3.

23 November, 2 pm: Bookbinding workshop, VGAC, Latako st. 3.

30 November, 1 pm: A meeting and a guided tour of the exhibition with the curators and the authors, VGAC, Latako st. 3.