Until February 28 Gintaras Česonis’ photography exhibition “The Modernity of Rear Facades” is open in the new gallery in Bialystok University of Technology.
The exhibition was opened by presenting the European Capital of Culture programme with the participation of Lithuanian Ambassador to Poland Eduardas Borisovas, Lithuanian Cultural Attaché Rasa Rimickaitė, the Mayor of Bialystok, the Rector of the University, other honorable guests and the academic community.
Before the opening of the exhibition, Marija Drėmaitė, Vaidas Petrulis and Grzegorz Piątek presented the guide of Kaunas architecture in Polish.
“The variety and diversity of architectural details, impressive balconies, cornices, intricately shaped front doors, elements of décor and lavish plastering all create an easily recognizable ornamentation of Kaunas’s modernist representational façades. In the meantime, undecorated rear façades, marked with humble staircases for servants, rarely become the centre of attention. They lack any architectural elaboration. Paradoxically, spaces at the rear of a house, dominated by pragmatic utilitarianism, particularly unfold as authentic testimonies to the modernist aesthetic. Seen from a courtyard, the city’s modernist face shows up much more vividly than can be seen from the street. In this paradox lies one of the most characteristic features of the genius loci of Kaunas.” – Vaidas Petrulis.
The exhibition is a part of “Kaunas – European Capital of Culture” programme.
