Zilvinas kempinas biography

Biography.
Žilvinas Kempinas is a contemporary visual artist.
Introduction: Žilvinas Kempinas (born 1969 in Plungė, Lithuania) is a contemporary visual artist.

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Zilvinas Kempinas by Neringa Černiauskaitė

Neringa Černiauskaitė: You recently joined Yvon Lambert gallery. Was the Lithuanian Pavilion in the 53rd Venice Biennale a decisive moment?

Zilvinas Kempinas: I was in group shows at Yvon Lambert in 2007 and this year. They came to the opening of the Lithuanian Pavilion.The Venice Biennale is often a turning point for many artists, and it certainly was for me.

NC:There is a perfect consonance between Tube and Scuola Grande della Misericordia. How do you find your works in unconventional exhibition spaces?

ZK: To ‘plant’ Tube in such a gorgeous environment as Scuola Grande della Misericordia — never used for Biennales before — was a difficult project. In fact, getting the space was the project. The piece itself was realized and tested at Atelier Calder (Sache, France) a year ago, so I knew exactly how it works. I was just focused on getting Tube a beautiful home for six months. I’m glad we succeeded. I don’t have preference in terms of conventional/unconventional spaces. I feel comfortable in any given s

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… suddenly a boring room became magical …

Zilvinas Kempinas

The works of Zilvinas Kempinas, who counts among the up-and-coming young artists on the international scene, possess a fascinating lightness and poetry. As a showcase of sensory abstractions, the exhibition presents the mystery of fleeting phenomena and invisible forces: the rotation of wind, shadow as an ornament, the play of reflected light. Minimal means are used to achieve maximum effects: lengths of unspooled videotape moving in currents of air serve as a sculptural material, transforming architecture into an optically buzzing environment or staging a hypnotic play of lines. They become a hall of columns or an abstract cinema, a dance of ribbons, or a sheet across the ceiling that evokes sensations of being underwater. These almost immaterial installations set the museum’s white cube in motion: architectural mass dissolves, the space is charged with energetic freshness, sensory awareness is thrown off balance. Art as flickering, vibrating, hovering, that enchants the eye and makes us dizzy.

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Žilvinas Kempinas

Lithuanian visual artist

Žilvinas Kempinas (born 1969 in Plungė, Lithuania) is a contemporary visual artist. He lives and works in New York City.

Biography

Zilvinas Kempinas studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts during the time when Lithuania was one of the first republics to declare sovereignty from the Soviet Union in 1990. He graduated the Academy in 1993. Kempinas exhibited works that merged paintings, sculptures, performance art and installations. He collaborated with Oskaras Koršunovas and created set designs for "The Old Woman 2", "Hello Sonia New Year", "The Flying Dutchman", and "PS Byla OK" which won him the 1998 Kristoforas Award for Best Drama Theater Stage Design.

Kempinas moved to New York at the end of 1997 and received an MFA in combined media from Hunter College, City University of New York in 2002. His first New York show took place at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in 2003. In 2007, Kempinas was featured by Art Review Magazine as one of its 'Future Greats'.^[1] In the same year, he was awarded the Calder Prize and