Antanas Sutkus
dal 2/8/2012 al 5/9/2012
Segnalato da
2/8/2012
Antanas Sutkus
Pushkin House, London
This exhibition celebrates the photographic achievements of Antanas Sutkus including a recent commission for The Photographers Gallery called The World in London.
Born in 1939, Sutkus studied journalism at Vilnius University between1958 –1964. He was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Society of Photographic Art in 1969, and its chairman in 1980 – 1989. In 1989–1990 and since 1996 he is the chairman of the Union of the Lithuanian Art Photographers. In 1983 he received the Lithuanian State Premium for Art; in 1997 he was decorated with the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas of the 4th degree; in 1998 he received the Art Award of the Lithuanian Government. In 2001–2002 he won the Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation (Sweden) grant and, in 2003, the National Premium for Art.
This exhibition at Pushkin House celebrates the photographic achievements of Antanas Sutkus including a recent commission for The Photographers Gallery called The World in London.
Antanas Surkus catalogue resume available at £65.00 from White Space gallery
The World in London is a celebration of Londoners and demonstrates photography’s ability to capture the human form in interesting and distinct ways. The project is organised by The Photographers’ Gallery and forms part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. The Photographers’ Gallery is the largest public gallery in the UK dedicated to photography.
The World in London presents portraits of Londoners by British and international photographers taken from 2009 – 2012. Each portrait shows a person or people from one of the 204 nations taking part in the London 2012 Games, accompanied by individual stories.
The World in London is a celebration of Londoners and demonstrates photography’s ability to capture the human form in interesting and distinct ways. The project is organised by The Photographers’ Gallery and forms part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad.
For more information about the project and its participants please visit the website: www.theworldinlondon.org.uk
The World in London is generously supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and ACE
Image: portrait of Nicola Pejovic (Montenegro) for ‘The World in London’ project, 2012
© Antanas Sutkus, courtesy of White Space Gallery/Anya Stonelake
Pushkin House
5A Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2TA