Pylimo galerija (Pylimo gallery), Vilnius, Lithuania

Rimas Biciunas Biography

RIMAS ZIGMAS BICIUNAS Born 1945. In 1966 completed studies at the M.K.Čiurlionis School of Art and in 1972 graduated from the Lithuanian Institute of Art (under Prof. Antanas Gudaitis). Since 1975, member of the Lithuanian Artists‘ Association. Since 1972 has taken part at exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad: International Festival of Art in Cannes (France, 1982), Venice Biennale (Italy, 1982), Delhi Triennale (India, 1982), International Art Fair ’83 in Basel, (Switzerland, 1983), International Art Fair ’89 in London (Great Britain, 1989), Fifth International Fair of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (USA, 1990) and many other European, Asian, African, and North American countries.
The works have been owned by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum in Kaunas, National Galleries of Latvia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Dr. Ludwig Museum of Modern Art, Cologne (Germany), State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, etc. and numerous private collections. Has painted compositions highlighting festive, work and leisure activities, alegoric compositions, lyrical landscapes, still-lifes, improvised portraits, and is also a master of drawing. http://www.pylimogalerija.lt/lt/parodos/1/59

Artist's Statement

“Ladies, flowers and birds are among the main motives in the artistic creation of R. Biciunas. The women depicted by Rimas are festive, mysterious and eccentric. Frequently they are like prima donnas or heroines of dramas, stepping into the pictures from the stage with an enigmatic smile and a flirting eye. The ladies portrayed by the artist are colourful like flowers, while his flowers are chic like ladies. The artist’s creation is an unending fiesta of colours. On the canvass, he firmly holds the contrasting colours in hand –green, red, orange, blue, and is able to arrange the drum sounds to the vibrant melody of violin. Colour halftones are rarely seen, everything is flooded with dashing hues. Most painters of Rimas’s generation created in an expressionistic style, influenced by Antanas Gudaitis. Many artists were seeking ugliness in the wild and in humans, and this feature became a fashionable "aesthetics." Here R. Bičiūnas’s and his fellow artists’ paths diverged. The painter has neither lived nor studied in Paris, however his art is ‘Parisian’ in character. The bright and colourful canvasses are close to the famous “Ècole de Paris“ tradition which here in Lithuania was embodied by Algirdas Petrulis, Jonas Čeponis, and Antanas Gudaitis.“ Aloyzas Stasiulevičius (painter, art critic)