ANNA SZPRYNGER‘S EXHIBITION "ECHO"

On Tuesday, February 3, at 5:00 PM, the opening of Anna Szprynger’s exhibition “Echo” will take place at the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art (V. Putvinskio St. 55, Kaunas).

The exhibition presents photographs, drawings, and paintings that invite visitors to travel in the footsteps of M. K. Čiurlionis and to come closer to his vision of the world.

Anna Szprynger embarked on a personal experiential journey, seeking to try to see the world through Čiurlionis’s eyes – to see what he saw and to feel what moved and inspired him. This is not a scholarly study or a historical reconstruction, but a sensitive journey of imagination that allows a renewed opening toward Čiurlionis’s art.

The journey led to Druskininkai – the most personal and intimate place for Čiurlionis, where he grew up, studied, and formed his worldview. It also included visits to Vilnius and Kaunas, cities that strengthened his connection with Lithuania. The route continued to Plungė, where he refined his musical mastery, and to the Gandingos Hillfort, where his debut as a composer took place. On the Lithuanian coast, Palanga became an important stop – a place where the motif of the vastness of the sea emerged in Čiurlionis’s work.

“In each of these places, I tried to attune my gaze to Čiurlionis’s sensitivity. I searched for points of resonance between my perception of the world and the way he might have seen it. This experience encouraged a renewed look at Čiurlionis’s painting and a deeper listening to his music,” says the artist.

Anna Szprynger was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1982, studied graphic arts and painting at the College of Fine Arts in Kazimierz Dolny and at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin. In 2014, she was awarded a Ph.D. in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she worked under Prof. Dorota Grynczel. Szprynger has 30 individual exhibitions to her name, including at Slag Gallery in New York (2019), Galerie Lindner Wien (2017), National Museum in Gdansk (2014), Galeria EL in Elbląg (2014), the State Art Gallery in Sopot (2012). She has taken part in more than fifty collective exhibitions. In 2013, she won the Prix Marin at the Salon Réalités Nouvelles in Paris and the 2014 Arteon Award.

Exhibition supported by the Polish Institute in Vilnius

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