MYKOL

For Mykolė, the landscape is also always a reflection of cultural and economic relations, but for her that does not extinguish the longing for nature, the need to admire the landscape. The artist depicts landscapes transformed according to human needs, places that can be approached and accessed... Mykolė's range of vision contains landscapes at the approaches to cities, penetrated by unstoppable urbanization. The roads are laid with asphalt, paths paved with tiles, water bodies surrounded by strips of concrete slabs, the groups of trees, bushes and meadows are shrinking, the balance between natural and artificial is being lost. In search of less affected nature, the artist travels to lakes, river valleys, forests and marshes. All these landscapes are empty. Not even tiny human figures (staffage) can be found. However, even here we find traces of "invasive" human activity: old car tires dropped at the edge of the forest, building structures that have lost their functions. In her..

Also known as: Mykolas Oginskis Palace

Primary location: Ignalina Lithuania