VAA Gallery "Akademija" presents solo exhibitions of two authors Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska and Dmitrij Buławka-Fankidejski. Both authors are lecturers at the Art Academy in Gdansk, Poland. They create in the field of ceramics and use alternative firing techniques in their work, which are still very rare in Lithuania. In their self-designed gas-fired mobile ceramic firing kilns, the authors perform unique ceramic firings - coppermate, foil saggar, fuming, raku and others - in a highly interactive and performative manner. Together with the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, they organizes and leads the plein-air "Ceramics alternatively" in Poland. The works presented in this exhibition reveal the intricacies of these unique firing technologies with various shades and mysterious effects.
Dmitrij Buławka-Fankidejski | Selfmotions
Opening: 2024 June 26, 6:00 p.m
Exhibition period: 26.06.2024 - 22.07.2024
The exhibition at Gallery "Akademija" consists of ceramic objects, spatial visual forms, inspired by current and past imagery will have these forms unified and transformed into immobile matter. Author are interested in the notion of self-motion of matter, the property of movement inherent in concrete, specific being. A voluntary attribute. Analyzing definitions of the concept of self-motion, we approach certain interpretations. A living being moves voluntarily, matter inanimate matter has no such property.
Dmitrij is inclined to doubt such a state of affairs. He looks for the common characteristics of this property in his own creation and leaves immovable objects to active action. Selfmotion of animate and inanimate matter. He is subject to the discourse of free will and independence of one's own decision. Independence of one's own thoughts, purity of perception and giving without intentions.
Stillness does not exist in matter. The idea of immortality is dead, immobile. We live in motion and matter in motion is changeable, constantly degrading, transforming. The content it carries with it is also variable.
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Dmitrij Buławka-Fankidejski (b. 1988) - studied at the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Currently is assistant in the Studio of Drawing Basics at the Department of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Together with the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, he organizes and leads the plein-air "Alternatively Ceramics "He received the Rectors' Award at the Best Diplomas at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk exhibition in 2016 for his sculptural realization "Question about Space.".
He works in sculpture, installation, drawing, ceramics and creates sculptures in metal. For his realizations he constructs and builds his own design gas kilns for firing ceramics and melting metals. Dmitrij Buławka-Fankidejski is the winner of the Grand Prize of the International Virtual Exhibition "Transformation" Bonartproject 2021 and received the Grand Prix Award at the 5th International Ceramic Triennale UNICUM, Slovenia for his work "Excerpt" 2023.
He participated in various exhibitions, open-air events and workshops in Poland and abroad in Slovakia, France, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia.
Curator of the exhibition: Rasa Justaitė-Gecevičienė
Partners: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Vilnius Art Academy, Department of Sculpture and Intermedia.
