Artwork in the room
Arvydas Kašauskas was born in 1959 in Vilnius. From 1977 to 1982, he studied fresco and mosaic at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
“The quality of art remains a matter of the author’s ambition and integrity,” says Kašauskas. In simple terms, art is good when the artist cares and stays honest.
Kašauskas was trained in monumental art—a discipline focused on scale, structure, and permanence. This background still shapes his work today. He approaches painting not as simple depiction, but as construction: each piece is built, carrying a sense of weight and space.
After the fall of the Soviet regime, he began working independently, moving from public, state-commissioned frescoes to more intimate canvas works. While the scale changed, his material approach remained.
Paint is not just applied—it is scraped, pressed, and layered, creating dense, tactile surfaces. His work balances control with unpredictability.
Looking back, Kašauskas describes his early artistic drive as a search for “a brighter, more compelling life,” shaped by a time when art held a distinct cultural role.
Today, he sees creativity as something open to everyone—not limited to artists, but available to anyone shaping their life with intention.
Landscape remains a constant in his work. Often painting outdoors, he draws from the energy of place and shared creative experience. Even in abstraction, nature is still present—reduced to rhythm, form, and space.
For Kašauskas, every painting is, ultimately, an abstraction.
About this artwork+
Vivid and dynamic, this painting exudes an intense energy with its thick, impulsive strokes of paint. Dominated by a fiery palette of reds that bleed into patches of black, the artwork swirls with contrasting hues of yellow, green, blue, and purple, creating a fragmented vision of a landscape. Abstract forms and shapes interlock and overlap, suggesting the chaotic beauty of nature or an urban scene abstracted into a dreamlike depiction. An interplay of light and shadow is achieved through the bold application of light-colored highlights against the deeper, darker areas, adding depth and movement to the scene. This piece vibrates with a lively, almost palpable rhythm, as if the natural and man-made elements it might represent are in constant motion, forever changing under a tempestuous sky.
