Video mapping created during a Franco-Lithuanian creation residency, as part of the Video Mapping Festival and the Lithuanian Season in France 2024.
► Dreams of Čiurlionis
Video artists Vytautas Žarnauskas, Matas Nakrošis (Lithuania), along with Hamza Mrabet and composer Aleksi Aubry-Carlson (France) will present a joint project, entitled Dreams of Čiurlionis. Video mapping performance will be dedicated to M. K. Čiurlionis – Lithuanian composer and painter of international significance, in anticipation of the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
Inspired by M. K. Čiurlionis symbolist musical conceptualism and unique phenomenon of his art, joint artists team will revive the Maison du Sagittaire building in Amiens. Using animation and video mapping techniques they will bring to life M. K. Čiurlionis paintings and his music, thereby transporting the audience into a unique and magical world.
Artists for this performance are working with digital copies of paintings that have been entrusted to them by the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art.
Direction: Hamza MRABET (France), Vytautas ŽARNAUSKAS (Lituanie)
Animation: Hamza MRABET, Matas NAKROŠIS, Vytautas ŽARNAUSKAS
Original music: Aleksi AUBRY-CARLSON ; Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra / Artistic director: Modestas PITRĖNAS / Harp: Dr. Joana DAUNYTĖ / M. K. Čiurlionis Symphonic poem “The Sea” / M. K. Čiurlionis Symphonic poem “In the Forest” / Prelude in B-Flat Minor, Op. 3 No. 1, VL 169 (Arr. Dr. Joana DAUNYTĖ for Harp)
Original paintings by M. K. Čiurlionis : The Sun is Passing the Sign of Sagittarius. XI from the cycle of 12 paintings “The Zodiac” / On Other Side of the Nemunas V / The Sun / Sonata No. 7 (Sonata of the Pyramids). Allegro / The Sun is Passing the Sign of Aquarius. I from the cycle of 12 paintings “The Zodiac” / Lightnings / Serenity / Sonata No. 7 (Sonata of the Pyramids). Scherzo / Creation of the World. X from the cycle of 13 paintings / Winter. II from the cycle of 8 paintings / The Thought / Rex / Friendship
With the support of the Hauts-de-France Region, DRAC Hauts-de-France, Amiens Métropole, the Département de la Somme, Lithuanian Cultural Institute, French Institute, M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art and the Curator : Danutė GRUZDIENĖ
In collaboration with IC.ON.IC, Festival d’arts visuels d’Amiens Métropole and Vilnius Light Festival.
