The project-exhibition “Algimantas Aleksandravičius: Through Lithuania – Through God’s Garden” was funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
Art Historian Virginijus Kinčinaitis on the Author:
Many admirers of photography know A. Aleksandravičius as an excellent portraitist. However, in recent years, the landscape genre has flourished in his work. His travels across Lithuania, photographing regions and seeking the genotypes of Samogitia or Aukštaitija, have enriched the photographer’s archive with numerous landscapes. Gradually, a comprehensive panorama of Lithuanian landscapes has emerged.
What kind of landscape is this, and what is characteristic of this photographer’s pantheistic worldview? It is clear that this is not the real world but rather black-and-white landscape engravings, meticulously composed connections between earth and sky. Algimantas avoids human traces on the land, preferring a cosmic level, the geological time of hills and forests, where there is no room for human noise. Urban geometry or disrupted suburban topography is avoided. However, historical motifs are not erased; they return through lines of ancient mounds and furrows of autumn roads. These are elegiac motifs of nature and culture reconciliation. Small figures of people shimmering on the horizon obey the cyclical nature, bustling in the eternal shadow of cloud garlands.
