Inga Noir Mrazauskė is a contemporary painter with an easily recognizable style. The artist combines a postmodern view that process is more important than result and a surreal style where every detail requires technical mastery. Minimalism, white silence and Baltic relics, archetypes and national writings coexist symbiosis in the painter's canvases. These are her grandmother's woven canvases.

I. Mrazauskė repeats the patterns she has seen and seems to be weaving herself. The peculiar rhythm immerses the painter in a meditative state in which she comes into contact with nature, her ancestors, their wisdom. These patterns are codes, abstract morse alphabets, conveying unverbalized images of the collective subconscious.

Mankind is bound by a metaphysical invisible red thread. The author's home is the whole universe that opens up through the knowledge of its roots. I. Mrazauskė canvases invite to perceive science and myth as two equal, complementary approaches to cognition. The same thin red thread also serves as a path for those who choose to step on the thin line that separates consciousness and subconscious, absolute knowledge and insanity. The motif of ants is characteristic of I. Mrazauskė work, which broke out of the collective subconscious, persecuted the imagination of Salvador Dali, the father of surrealism, and became a symbol of visions.

The artist's studio in the attic physically and materially depicts the painter's interest in space, the night sky and the constellations. And in this aspect the author's work shines with the harmony of dualism. The painter looks at space both with a mythological worldview, a restrained belief in the magic of nature, and rationally, through a telescope, the prism of the exact sciences. The author is interested not only in the lights of the sky, but in the light in general. The author interprets darkness only as the absence of light. I. Mrazauskė has been scientifically and creatively analyzing the phenomenon of light since her studies. Light and shadows are the main characters of her canvases, embodied in the folds, still life objects, daylight or twilight sun, colors.

The painter's work is seamless, marked by a sense of cosmic order, completeness, emptiness developed and translated in emptiness. The painter is looking for her identity as a descendant of the Aestian. Its melancholy canvases sound like longing contracts. Her musical painting is full of reflection, pauses, haste. After grasping the atmosphere unfolded in I. Mrazauskė paintings, listening to them, they begin to whisper a curse that awakens the cultural heritage of the past that lies within us.

Inga Noir Mrazauskė, born in 1986, has been organizing exhibitions since 2009.

Art critic

Austėja Mikuckytė

EXHIBITIONS:

2019 02 - 2019 04 01 Personal retrospective exhibition “Noir [09-19]” with musical opening program, Compensa Concert Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2018 11 22 - 2018 12 22 Group exhibition "Colored Nymphs & Titans," Godo "Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2018 06 - 2018 07 20 Exhibition "Universes" (in the exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the restoration of Lithuania, organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Austria), Gloggnitz Castle, Gloggnitz, Austria.

05 06 2018 - 01 07 2016 Group exhibition, AP gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

May 14, 2018 - One evening group exhibition of plein air participants “Exhibition No. 3”, LOFTAS, Vilnius, Lithuania.

20/02/2018 - 28/02/2018 Personal exhibition “Depths” in the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, II Palace Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2017 11 17 - 2018 01 17 Personal exhibition at "J9 Vaidila" Theater, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2017 08 01 - 2017 08 19 Personal exhibition "Deep Sleep", Pylimo Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

10/10/2016 - 1017 01 10 Personal exhibition "Universes" in the exhibition spaces of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania.

28.10.2015 - 31.10.2015 Personal exhibition in the business center "Victoria", organizer "AP Gallery", Vilnius, Lithuania.

21/09/2015 - 18/10/2015 Painting exhibition in the project of the Temporary Art Space “Forest”, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2014 05 29 - 2014 05 30 "Secret exhibition" in a private studio, Vilnius, Lithuania

2013 08 03 - 2013 08 31 Exhibition of young artists “History of the resort: Transparency”, Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania; (picture: “Imprints”).

01/02/2013 - 22/02/2013 Painting exhibition at the gallery Nuova Galleria dArte la Piccola, Italy, Bologna.

2012 12 19 - 2013 02 17 Exhibition of the winners and finalists of the project “Young Painter's Prize”, Panevėžys Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater, Gallery "A Gallery", Panevėžys, Lithuania.

2012 11 24 - 2012 12 15 Exhibition of the winners and finalists of the project “Young Painter's Prize”, CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL “VIRUS'17”, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania.

11/10/2012 - 03/11/2012 Painting exhibition of the finalists of the project “Young Painter's Prize” in the exhibition hall of the Vilnius Academy of Arts Titanic, Vilnius, Lithuania.

11/10/2012 - 03/11/2012 Painting exhibition of the finalists of the project “Young Painter's Prize” in the exhibition hall of the Vilnius Academy of Arts Titanic, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2012 06 07 - 2012 06 23 Personal painting exhibition “Longing” at the Lithuanian Echo Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2009 07 20 - 2009 09 20
Solo exhibition “Dream Theater” at Adria premises, Vilnius, Lithuania.

EDUCATION:

2005-2009 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Design. Bachelor of Arts (with honors for innovation and aesthetics).
2009-2011 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Design. Master of Arts (received the Swedbank Young Artist Award).