Gintaras Didziapetris | the artist

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Gintaras Didžiapetris
DELIBERATELY ESCHEWING a few key methods of dissemination synonymous with
the communication of contemporary art and the promotion of an artist’s career — the
artist insists on no biography and has a pessimism for interviews —, after glancing at
Gintaras Didžiapetris’s oeuvre, one realizes that the artist’s work takes a similar path; it shares a similar air of resistance, while remaining almost silent, camouflaged even.
Strikingly apparent from a first view or take of Didžiapetris’s work is the strange quality
it imbues, rendering it somewhat difficult to pinpoint the generation from which he
has emerged. Due to the specific apparatus that the artist uses — namely archaic equipment — and the work’s angle on the legacy of conceptual art, its particular aesthetic and at times its subject matter, which appears to be allied in many ways with Lithuania, the work could paradoxically be positioned in the past and equally the present day…

Gintaras Didžiapetris
Interview with the artist

Gintaras Didžiapetris
All the Things You Are