Edvardas Racevičius

Hoja de Vida

Edvardas Racevičius was born in 1974, Klaipėda, where he graduated from art school and E. Balsys Gymnasium of Arts. He worked and lived with Vilius Orvydas (Gargždelės village near Salantai) for one year and this experience gave him a beginning of acquaintance with such a material as wood. During that year he created his first sculptures from wood. Later followed studies at Telšiai Priest Seminary and theological studies in Vilnius Pedagogical University, when in 1997 artist returned to the wood sculpture and started an intensive creative road. He moved to Greifswald (Germany) from 2002, where he continues living. Since 2001 E. Racevičius has held ten personal exhibitions, as well participated in group exhibitions and symposiums in Germany.

At the (AV17) gallery an opening will be held for the exhibition Wood sculpture by Lithuanian origin sculptor Edvardas Racevičius, who is currently living and working in Germany. After taming wood as a substance, the artist gives meaning to all of his artistic ideas in this particular material, which represents life and spirituality. Human figures squeezed in tree trunks or growing out of them tell their own, irony flavored stories or remind of strange situations to the viewer, in which everyone can find at least a small part of themselves, recognize experienced state or identify to the image itself.

In the artist’s sculptures usually lonely, apathetic, standardized unit of gray crowd – a human being with a white shirt and black trousers – is seen. The artist ironically plays with his fate by placing him in awkward situations: he depicts the figure without head or settled on a tree trunk and broom stick, he leaves sticking out branches of tree instead of the figures arms or head. And this human being becomes a mirror of society, he represents everybody’s apparent “I”, which may actually exist or be just an illusion. The tree and branches mark all what is near, what forms the apparent “I” – it can be people, society, nature, religion, etc. They become an extension of individual, therefore, in the sculptures figures rise from a wooden pedestal and hands are replaced with branches. Through the tree human extensions go back to the ground – the essence and beginning of everything.

Vita

1974 in Klaipeda,Litauen geboren
1982 – 1992 Eduardo Balsio-Kunstgymnasium Klaipeda,Litauen
1991 – 1992 bei dem Bildhauer Vilius Orvydas gelebt und gearbeitet
1992 – 1995 Priesterausbildung und Studium der Theologie im Priesterseminar Telšiai, Litauen
1995 – 1997 Studium der Theologie und Sozialpädagogik an der Pädagogischen Universität Vilnius
seit 1997 als Bildhauer tätig
2002 Umzug nach Greifswald, Deutschland

Einzelausstellungen

2014 Berlin: Skulptur, Litauische Botschaft in Deutschland
2013 Vilnius: Holzskulptur, Galerie “AV17”
2013 Bad Segeberg: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, KulturHof Otto Flath
2012 Greifswald: Menschen und Bäume. (Skulptur), Galerie im St. Spiritus
2008 Greifswald: Garten 133 (Skulptur und Grafik), Galerie im St. Spiritus
2008 Ludwigsburg: Kunst offen (Skulptur, Grafik, Malerei)
2007 Greifswald: Spielzeit (Malerei und Grafik), Foyergalerie Theater
2006 Greifswald: Malerei, Galerie Valtis
2006 Stralsund: Frequenzen, Speicher am Katharinenberg
2005 Stralsund: Extras, Speicher am Katharinenberg
2004 Greifswald: Graphiken, Projekt WBS70
2001 Vilnius, Litauen: Skulpturen, pilies galerija

Gruppenausstellungen

2015 Greifswald: Human Phantasy, Galerie Stp
2015 Berlin: Arb‘, Galerie Kurt im Hirsch
2015 Belgien, Kluisbergen: Infected, Beukenhof
2015 Bad Homburg: Tricolor, Galerie Artlantis
2014 Müncheberg: Who is afraid of figurative sculpture?, Schloss Trebnitz
2014 Salzkotten-Niederntudorf: STATIONKUNST, Atelier Werner Schlegel
2014 Greifswald: Schrödinger‘s, Galerie im IPP
2013 Berlin: Berliner Liste
2013 Klaipeda: Arb, (Skulptur/Fotografie), Galerie “Si:said”
2013 Berlin: Elemente.Schwerkraft.Gleichgewicht. Kunstgiesserei&Galerie Flierl
2012 Greifswald: Werkschau (Skulptur), Polly Faber
2011 Greifswald: KulturaNatura (Skulptur, Malerei und Video), Kulturbar
2011 Greifswald: Sammlung Fleischervorstadt
2010 Burgwedel: Realismus mal 3, Kunstverein Burgwedel/Isernhagen e.V.
2009 Greifswald: Sieben, Galerie art-cube
2008 Greifswald: Artikulation , Amtsgericht Greifswald
2008 Greifswald: TOM (Installation), art-cube
2008 Greifswald: Innenraum Text – Galerie Koeppenhaus
2005 Rostock / Greifswald: distances – Bild und Klang, Körper und Raum
2003 Sankt Andreasberg: 9. Kunstausstellung Natur- Mensch

Holzbildhauersymposien

2011 Kronach: Holzart XV
2011 Kriebstein: Kunst am Wasser
2011 Stadthagen: anders & begabt
2011 Kenzingen: Wegbereiter
2011 Bad Schlema: Unterwelten
2010 St. Blasien: 15. Internationaler Holzbildhauer-Wettbewerb
2010 Sesslach: Internationales Holzbildhauersymposium
2009 Eppstein: Zeitzeuge Holz (1. Preis)
2009 Kronach: Holzart XIII (1. Preis)
2009 Bad Salzungen: ParkZeit (1. Preis)
2008 Falkenstein: Internationales Holzbildhauersymposium
2008 Salantai, Litauen: 4. Internationales Bildhauersymposium, Orvido sodyba
2006 Greifswald: International students festival
2005 Greifswald: International students festival
2005 Meiningen: Schönheit – Freiheit
2004 Kriebstein: Kunst am Wasser
2004 Stadtroda: Irren ist menschlich
2003 Stadtroda: Symposium
2002 Stadtroda: Komm! Ins Offene, Freund!