Antanas Sutkus

Antanas Sutkus dēvēts par Lietuvas fotogrāfijas Homēru. Laikā no 23. oktobra līdz 14. novembrim galerija Birkenfelds piedāvās izcilā fotogrāfa darbu izstādi. Skatē būs darbu retrospektīva sākot no 1955. līdz 2003. gadam. Labākie darbi no autora zelta fonda – Lietuvas cilvēki, sadzīves ainas, vēsturiski notikumi un personības. Skatoties ar šodienas cilvēka acīm, mums būs iespēja novērtēt meistara radošās dzīves ceļu, estētiskās vērtības un dokumentēto laiku.
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In 1958 –1964 Sutkus studied journalism at Vilnius University. He was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Society of Photographic Art in 1969, and its chairman in 1980 – 1989. In 1989 –1990 and since 1996 – the chairman of the Union of the Lithuanian Art Photographers. in 1983 he received the Lithuanian State Premium for Art; in 1997 he was decorated with the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas of the 4th degree; in 1998 he received the Art Award of the Lithuanian Government. In 2001–2002 he won the Erna&Victor Hasselblad Foundation (Sweden) grant Documentation and Conservation of Antanas Sutkus’ Archive of Photographs. In 2003 received the National Premium for Art.

One-man exhibitions

More than 120. Here are the most important of them:

2009
Latvia, Birkenfelds gallery "
Retrospective"
2008  
Lithuania, up close and personal, Lensky gallery, Stow-on-the Wold, England         
2007    
Retrospective, Rachmaninov dvorik gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
Daily Life Archives,Contemporary Art Museum, Minsk Byelorussia, Minsk
J.- P. Sartre ir S. de in Lithuania, 1965. Warsaw, Poland
2006     
White Space Gallery, London
Stadtmuseum Münster, Germany   
2005
Exhibitions “J-P. Sartre and S. de Beauvoir in Lithuania.  1965” for the 100th anniversary of Sartre:
Centre Culturel Francais, Kiev, Ukraine
Centre Culturel Francais, Stockholm, Sweden
Centre Culturel Francais, Rostock, Germany
Centre Culturel Francais, Greifswald, Germany
Photography gallery 17, Salies de Bearn, France
Artists’ Union Gallery, Riga, Latvia      
2004   
PHP, Prague, Czech
Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin, Germany
Susanne Albrecht gallery, Munich, Germany
Stara Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw, Poland
The 5th Moscow Photography Bienalle, Central House of Artists,
Moscow, Russia
CK Zamek, Galeria PF, Poznan, Poland
Galleri Infra, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
Prospekto photography gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2008             
Spacetime:People / Friction, Vilnius Picture Gallery
Behind Walls, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Fries Museum, The Netherlands Street&Studio. An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London
Working Men, Analix Forever gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
           
2007   
Presumed Innocence, (from the collection of Beth and Anthony Terrana)   DeCordoba Museum, Lincoln, USA
Antanas Sutkus and Classics of Lithuanian Photography, The State Russian Centre of Photography, St Petersburg, Russia
2006   
Photography Festival FotoGrafia (with A. Macijauskas and R. Požerskis), Rome, Italy
2005   
Galeri Konstepidemin (with S&P Stanikas), Goteburg, Sweden
Galerie Lichtblick (with A. Macijauskas and A. Valiauga), Cologne, Germany
Galerie Susanne Albrecht (with Martin Parr), Munich,  Germany
2002   
EU Positive Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany   
Les Boreales festival, Caen, France
Clear Vision. Photographs from F.C. Gundlach’s Collection, Internationales Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Lithuanian Insight: 1960 to Now. Fotografie Forum international, Kommunale Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2000   
Self Esteem. Lithuanian Art’ 01, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
Victoria and Albert Museum Canon Gallery
Photographs have been acquired by

Lithuanian Museum of Art, Vilnius; Museum of Photography, Šiauliai; National Library, Paris; Museum of  French Photography, Paris; Museum of Photography, Helsinki; International Center of Photography, New York; Institute of Arts, Chicago; Art Museum, Minneapolis; Fotoforum Felldeg Gallery, Zurich; Art Gallery, Dresden; Art Museum, Boston; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Photography Museum, Odense, Denmark; F.C. Gundlach’s Collection, Hamburg; Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; Museum The Moscow House of Photography.

Private collections
Paul Smith, London
Beth and Anthony Terrana, USA
Danguolė and Viktoras Butkus, Lithuania

Publications

Vilniaus šiokiadieniai (Daily Life in Vilnius; with R.Rakauskas), 1965; Tėviškės laukų suvenyras (A Souvenir from the Fields of Homeland), 1969; Šalis ta Lietuva vadinas (This Land is Called Lithuania; with R.Rakauskas),1970; Senojo Vilniaus Fragmentai (Fragments of the Old Vilnius), 1973; Lazdynai, 1975; Lietuva iš paukščio skrydžio (Bird’s Eye View of Lithuania),1980, 1981; Neringa, 1980, 1982, 1992; Daina Lietuvai (A Song for Lithuania),1984;) Draugystė (Friendship), 1988; Naturparadies Kurische Nehrung (with H.Peitch), 1988; Lietuva/Lithuania, 1991,1993; Lietuva (Lithuania), 1993; Basų kojų nostalgija: parodos katalogas (Nostalgia for Bare Feet: Exhibition Catalogue), 1995; Pro Memoria: Exhibition Catalogue, 1997; Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania,1965: Exhibition Catalogue (1999); Antanas Sutkus. Fotografijos, (Antanas Sutkus. Photographs), 2000; Antanas Sutkus. Kasdienybės archyvai. 1959-1993 (Daily Life Archives. 1959-1993), 2003; Antanas Sutkus. Sartre & Beauvoir. Cinq jours en Lituanie. Le Bord De L’eau Editions, France, 2005; Antanas Sutkus. Retrospective. 2009






 

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