Antanas Sutkus
dal 14/5/2006 al 1/6/2006
Segnalato da
14/5/2006
Antanas Sutkus
White Space Gallery, London
The exhibition will present his most important work, including his series People of Lithuania, an ongoing project begun in 1976. Also on display will be images from one of his best known series of photographs, documenting the visit of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to Lithuania in the summer of 1965, at the height of the cold war.
Daily Life Archives 1959-1993
White Space Gallery is pleased to announce first UK solo exhibition by Antanas
Sutkus (born 1939), Lithuania's most famous photographer. As leader of the "Great
generation" of Lithuanian photographers who made their mark in the 1960s, Sutkus has
been a strong influence on subsequent development of photography in the Baltic
country. His lucid and moving images of everyday life have been compared to the work
of the greats of 20th-century photojournalism such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and
Andre Kertesz.
This exhibition will present his most important work, including his series People of
Lithuania, an ongoing project begun in 1976, which shows the changing life of
Sutkus's homeland. Also on display will be images from one of his best known series
of photographs, documenting the visit of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to
Lithuania in the summer of 1965, at the height of the cold war, and their meetings
with writers and other intellectuals.
This exhibition is organised in partnership with the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture
Antanas Sutkus:
Born in Lithuania in 1939, Antanas Sutkus started his photographic career as a
photojournalist, and since 1969 has been working as an independent photographer
based in the capital city Vilnius. He was one of the co-founders and President of
the Photography Art Society of Lithuania (PASL), which championed photography as an
art form, and is credited with gaining recognition for Lithuanian photographers on
the national and international scene. Sutkus's main subject is man in all situations
and moods. His aim, he has written, is "to make an attempt at drawing a
psychological portrait of contemporary man ... because future generations will judge
our way of life, our culture and our inner world on the basis of photographs."
In 2001-2002 he won the Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation Grant (Sweden) for
"Documentation and conservation of Antanas Sutkus's archive of photographs". His
recent shows include FotoGrafia photography festival, Rome, 2006; Photography
Gallery, Paris; Galerie Susanne Albrecht (with Martin Parr), Munich, 2005; PHP,
Prague, 2004; Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt am Main, 2003; "Clear Vision: Photographs
from F.C. Gundlach's Collection", Internationales Haus der Photographie,
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, 2002.
His works are in the collections of Lithuanian Museum of Art, Vilnius; National
Library, Paris; Museum of French Photography, Paris; Museum of Photography,
Helsinki; International Center of Photography, New York; Institute of Arts, Chicago;
Art Museum, Minneapolis; Art Museum, Boston; Victoria and Albert Museum, London;
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; The Moscow House of Photography.
Publication
This exhibition will be accompanied by his recent book Daily Life Archives.
1959-1993. Unpublished photographs. Published by the Union of Lithuanian Art
Photographers with the help of Hasselblad Foundation. Vilnius. 2003.
Private view: Monday, 15 May, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Talk by Antanas Sutkus:
Friday, 19 May 2.30 pm at Photo-London Photography Fair
http://www.photo-london.com
White Space Gallery
St Peter's Church, Vere Street - London
Opening hours: Tues-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11pm-5pm