RUTA JUSIONYTE
RUTA JUSIONYTE
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STRENGTH BEYOND DESTRUCTION
“One only finds balance in extremes”
Her art was once said to be expressionist : nude and cracked bodies, questioning eyes, suffering yet grinning faces; Ruta’s characters, scared, sometimes haunted, used to cristallize something of the anguish and despondancy of repressed feelings as they surface from within. No doubt she had to go deep into the dark territories of her own shadow to bring out these doleful faces, these cracked and ravaged bodies.
Over the years, one has to admit that such a time is over. Ruta has transcended herself as the clay she models is transcended, strengthened and transformed by fire. As though she had triumphed over the furnace of torment that was burning inside her – the furnace of history, of exile, of doubt and intimate trials – so much so that her art now seems to have entered a more mature and serene period. The smile her characters nowdisplay speaks of confidence, of peace, of a new opening to the world, stripped of fear and rage. Less expressive, less emotional, Ruta’s art has reached a new language, less intimate but more symbolic, more universal, more mythological even. Surely this mythological repertoire of centaurs, wolves, and winged creatures was there already, but it was first and foremost expressive, it was there to express what came from the deep and intimate wounds of the past : anger, pain, melancholia, doubt and desire… From her sculptures now radiates a form of meek calmness, a tenderness so characteristic of those who have undergone trials, and overcome anger and resentment to reach some kind of simplicity, a new acceptance of others and of the world, opening up to new forms of creation : « I have moved beyond the cathartic stage unto a new level of creation revolving around the question of “the good life” » she admitted as we met in September 2019 in her studio.
Ruta Jusionyte’s art is not about getting to know herself anymore, nor is it merely a way of expressing herself, be it through symbols; it is not an outward expression of an inner self, nor of a rapport au monde anymore : she has reached another dimension, beyond self and being, maybe close to a kind of ransmission, where archetypal images, symbols from times past – maybe from a purely fantasmatic age –, move around us, slowly emerging from a collective unconscious.
Mikaël Faujour
Ruta Jusionyte was born in 1978 in Lithuania.
Ruta studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vilnius.
She live and work in France
Personal past exhibitions
2020
Vilnius Art fair, gallery Menu Tiltas solo show painting, sculpture
Gallery Olivier Rousseau , Tours sculpture
Zemaiciu art museum, Plunge, Lt sculpture
2019
Gallery Menu Tiltas, Vilnius,Lituanie painting and sculpture
Gallery Picot-le Roy, Morgat, France
Gallery Christel Wagner, Francfurt am Main, DE painting and sculpture
Guest by honor at Caen, Bayeux par « Artistes de Normandie » AEN painting and sculpture
Gallery Danielle Bourdette Gorzkowski,Honfleur, sculpture, drowing
Gallery du Jansanet, Troyes, fr peinture, sculpture, drowing
2018
Gallery Schwab Beaubourg, Paris, Fr
Gallery Crid’art, Metz, Fr
Gallery Espace 83, Rochelle,Fr
2017 Gallery Claudine Legrand, rue de Seine, Paris, Fr
2017 Gallery Wagner, Francfort, D
2017 Gallery Kellermann, Düsseldorf, D
2017 Vilnius Art Fair,Gallery Menu Tiltas, Vilnius,Lituanie
2016 Karlsuhe Art Fair,Gallery Wagner, Francfort, D
2016 Vilnius Art Fair,Gallery Menu Tiltas, Vilnius, LT, and 2015, 2014
2016 Lille Art Up,Gallery Claudine Legrand, Paris FR
2015 Gallery Crid’Art, Metz, Fr
2015 Gallery Claudine Legrand, rue de Seine, Paris, Fr
2015 Gallery 22 Art Contemporain, Cabrières d’Avignon, Fr
2014 Gallery Danielle Bourdette-Gorzkowski, Honfleur, Fr
2014 Gallery Saint Rémy, Liège, B
2014 Gallery Daniel Duchoze, Rouen, Fr
2013 Gallery Schwab, rue Quincampoix , Paris, Fr
2013 Gallery Claudine Legrand, rue de Seine, Paris, Fr
2013 Gallery Picot-le Roy, Morgat, France
2013 Gallery Univers, Lausanne, Ch
2013 Gallery La Louve, Arlon, B
2012 Gallery du Cardo hors murs, Doncherie Castle , Fr
2012 Contemporain art space Chapelle Sainte Anne, Tours, Fr
2012 Lille Art Fair – Gallery du Cardo, Reims, Fr
2010 Affordable Art fair, Bruxelles, B
2010 Gallery En Aparté, Limoges, Fr
2009 GalleryArdital, Aix en Provence, Fr
2009 Gallery Pierre Marie Vitoux, rue d’Ormesson, Paris, Fr
2008 ST’ART – Gallery Crid’art, Metz, Fr
2004 Gallery Françoise Souchard, Lyon, Fr
Group shows
2020
Galerie Wagner, Francfort, D groupe show
Musée de la Briqueterie – Mairie de Langueux
2019
MO modern art Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania
Animal-Muman- Robot
Museum Estonia, Parnu from the XXVI International Nude Art Exhibition
MAN, WOMAN AND THE FREEDOM
Samogitian (Žemaitija in Lithuanian) art museum
the Festival of Correspondances à Braine
2017 art Museum Ciurlionis, Lithuania « L’expressionisme contemporain et ses marges »
2013 Gallery La Louve, Belgique
Gallery Daniel Duchoze , Rouen
Gallery Claudine Legrand, 49 rue de Seine, Paris
Gallery Danielle Bourdette Gorzkowski, Honfleur
2012 Gallery du Cardo « hors murs », château Faucon, Doncherie (Ardennes)
Contemporary space Chapelle Sainte Anne, Tours
2010 Gallery du Cardo, Reims ” Dessins à Dessein ”
2009 Gallery En Aparté, Limoges ” Don, Contre-Don ”
Gallery Pierre Marie Vitoux “Au Féminin pluriel ”
2004 Gallery Françoise Souchaud, Lyon
Art fairs
2016 Gallery Christel Wagner, Francfurt sur Main, DE Karslruhe
2016-17-18-19-20 Vilnius Art Fair 2016, Lt
2015 Vilnius Art Fair 2015, Lt
2015 Off course , Galerie Arielle Hauterives, Bruxelles, Be
2014 Vilnius Art Fair 2014, LT
2012 Lille Art Fair- Gallery du Cardo, Reims , Fr
2010 Affordable Art Fair, Bruxelles, Be
Art on Paper – Brussels drawing fair, Be
2008 ST’ART with Gallery Crid’art, Metz, Fr
2007 Foire d’art Arténim – with Crid’Art Grenoble, FR
Prix
2015 winner of the award Georges Coulon, Acadamy of Arts, Paris
Revue de presse
100 Artistes, Miroir de l’art # 33
50 best sculptors in France, Miroir de l’art
Artention
Mirroir de l’art 24 Heures: Troublant choc frontal avec des êtres de terre
L’agora des arts: Sculpter l’humanité à vif
Private and public collections:
Purchase of a painting for the muséum of modern art of Vilnius (MMC), LT
Purchase of eight paintings by a private collector for the new museum of modern art of Vilnius, LT
Purchase of a sculpture by the art museum of Anges, LT
Purchase of a sculpture by the city of Le Mans, Fr
Purchase of a sculpture by Lithuanian Lewben Expatriate Art Foundation’s, LT