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+
The painting depicts a bold and textured landscape, dominated by a towering, abstract formation that occupies most of the canvas. This form is rendered in a palette of grays, purples, whites, and hints of blue and pink, applied with thick, impasto strokes that give the surface a rugged, almost sculptural quality. Contrasting sharply with the verticality and subdued hues of the central structure is the base of the scene, where a stripe of vivid, lush greens and deep earthy browns stretches across, suggesting a fertile ground. Punctuating this base layer are patches of bright red and yellow, infusing the landscape with bursts of vibrant energy. The composition is dynamic, its heavy textures and stark color contrasts creating a sense of drama and immediacy.
