Miglė Kosinskaitė and Peeters Krosmann’s exhibition “Hexameter of the City”
Six years – that’s how long the artist couple lives and creates in Kaunas (Greek: hexametron < hex – six + metron – measure). How long does it take to “fit in” a city? To get to know its specifics, to integrate into society, to grow memories… The authors put together their experiences, write an artist’s diary, a kind of epic with a specific rhythm, repetitions and pauses, telling their story.
“Just as a poem is more than its words, or a musical score is more than a combination of dots and lines, so a painting is more than a canvas covered with paint spots. How much music the viewer will see in that score will depend on his skills, choice and responsibility,” says Peeters Krosmann, whose paintings of well-known and completely unseen cityscapes acquire a kind of metaphysical meaning and sound.
Miglė Kosinskaitė entwined her hexameter between sociality and abstraction, from the reflection of aggravated human relations to the desire to completely close herself off from the outside world, move to another era and lock the door.