ARTMATYSIK`s Artists Dr. Gerd & Bertram Matysik are joining
LITHUANIAN ART WEEK - International Exhibition of Contemporary Art,

Vilnius, 26th Jan. -  10th Feb. 2010

Like the recent and successful international exhibitions & competitions for contemporary art so called "Russian Art Week" in Moscow & St. Petersburg - Russia or "Ukrainian Art Week" in Kiev - Ukraine this time NextArt Foundation, Moscow has organized the famous art fair "Lithuanian Art Week" right in Vilnius, the cultural capital of the Republic of Lithuania.

NextArt Foundation realizes this international art fair in cooperation with The International Center of Culture and Arts - Vilnius, The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Lithuanian Republic - Vilnius, The Museum of National Graphics, Moscow and further partners & sponsors with national and international flair and reputation.

Open worldwide for all contemporary art of our times and because of the fact the event is organized by NextArt Foundation - Moscow with the same professionality, experience and energy best know from their past art events so indeed this year`s LITHUANIAN ART WEEK in Vilnius guarantees a really exciting and amazing experience for all visitors, artlovers, collectors and participating artists.

May be along this great opportunity the fair´s visitor would like to cruise also around the historical city of Vilnius with a mass of interesting locations like museums, galleries and also trendy pubs & restaurants so Vilnius is not only the national capital. Vilnius represents also some kind of meeting point and energetic hotspot for all people in this region of Eastern Europe wanna enjoy their time and it is always a great place to meet an international audience in front of the background of an amazing culture and history.

Lithuanian Art Week offering exhibition & competition of contemporary art right fresh and directly from the artist to the interested public is open from 26th January to 1st February 2010 and takes place at The Museum-Gallery of the Modern Art (classical art) and at  Gallery "Pilies" (avant-garde art) in Vilnius.

Juried by an international jury of established artists, publishers & writers including academic professionals of the arts the winning works of the connected international competition of the Lithuanian Art Week will circle afterwards to presentation round to Klaipeda and Shauljaj at the Art City Centre of Klaipeda (Klaipeda Art Exhibition Hall) and at Art Gallery in Shauljae.

Every artistic participant of the competitive program will be published in the International Catalogue "NEW FACES IN ARTS" together with the participants of the recent ART WEEK Sessions 2009/2010  like Russian Art Week Moscow 2009 and Ukrainan Art Week Kiev 2009 - and every artist participate in programs of master classes and lecture halls so Lithuanian Art Week always staying in interactive communication with artist and artlover is much more than only a single event for exhibiting art.

Lithuanian Art Week is an international and cultural happening with impressive importance for contemporary arts and the fair stands for this kind of international flair and feeling every artlover should not miss to join.

All in all coming from the actually running Lithuanian Art Week we can indeed wonder and look with great excitement and expectations forward to the next upcoming "Art-Weeks"  like for example in Moscow & St. Petersberg or the BELARUS ART WEEK.

However what comes next from there - sure it will be another great leap in Contemporary Arts.

Lithuanian Art Week - The Overview and The Details :

When ?

Jan. 26th - Feb. 1st, 2010

Where:

In the historical centre of Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania:

Museum of the Modern Art & Gallery Pilies.

Organizers:

> International Center of Culture and Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania,

> Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Lithuanian Republic (Vilnius),

> NextArt Foundation, Moscow,

>The Museum of National Graphics, Moscow
 

+++ Artmatysik`s FineArts Artist Dr. Gerd Matysik wins 1st Place in International Graphic Competition - Academic drawing +++ FineArts Artist Bertram Matysik wins 2nd & 3rd place in InternationalPainting Competition - Animalistic Painting & Genre Painting with his works "Jaguar - the animal"   What`s crisis ! Let`s party ? - Miami Homestead - in memorial for Versace", oil on canvas. +++

Vilnius, February 15th 2010

This year`s LITHUANIAN ART WEEK - International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Art in Vilnius which das been an exciting experience for all visitors, artlovers, collectors and participating artists from all over the world is now over.
This international art fair realized by the well known NextArt Foundation Moscow in cooperation with The International Center of Culture and Arts - Vilnius, The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Lithuanian Republic - Vilnius, The Museum of National Graphics, Moscow and further partners & sponsors with national and international flair and reputation has been once again an overwhelming success and an exciting experience for all visitors and participating artists around the globe in Lithuania`s capital Vilnius.
So every year`s Lithuanian Art Week is much more than only a single event for exhibiting contemporay art also this art fair has offered various happenings to visitors, artlovers and artists like progams of master classes, lecture halls, artistic joint-ventures and so much more in order in increase the artistic communication and exchange leaving no one out who joins the arts at Lithuanian ArtWeek.
Because Lithuanian Art Week is an international and cultural happening with impressive importance for the contemporary arts the event has come with a variety of international exhibitions and competitions in nearly all categories related to contemporay art in order to give the artworld the specified overview what`s going on in the arts of today.

Therefore these categories at LITHUANIAN ART WEEK -
International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Art,
are:

- International Painting Competition
- International Graphic Competition
- International Photography Competition
- International Sculpture Competition
- International Crafts Competition

However the climax of this spring`s Lithuanian ArtWeek has been once again the final announcement of the Winners
of the Lithuanian Art Week Exhibtion as International Competition of Contemporary Art which has been juried by an international jury of established artists, publishers & writers including academic professionals of the arts.
And impressed by the amazing powerful variety of the participating contemporary art works the juros had again a really hard job to do desicion and final selection for this spring`s awards.

In order to honor every participant`s artistic work all participating artworks of Lithuanian ArtWeek will be published in the International Catalogue "NEW FACES IN ARTS" together with the participants of the recent ART WEEK Sessions 2009/2010 like Russian Art Week Moscow 2009 and Ukrainan Art Week Kiev 2009 which will be published soon in order to give the interested public some hints on artists with the artistic power and potential to come up in Contemporary Arts right now.

The winners of Lithuanian ArtWeek Vilnius 2010 - Spring Session are:.
 

I. International Painting Competition

Nomination "Abstract Painting"
1 place: Bubel-Maslov Veronica, competitive work "Sphere"

Nomination "Watercolors"
1 place: Sharovatova-Luther Margarita, competitive work "Still Life with Lilac

Nomination "Animalistic Painting"
1 place: Valt Natalia, thematic composition "Tomorrow"
2 nd place: Matysik, Bertram Heinrich, competitive work "Jaguar - the animal"
3 place: Galchinskiy Olga, competitive work "At night all cats are gray"

Nomination "Genre Painting"
1 place: Semavina Marina, competitive work "The Stranger"
2 place: Rudometov Daria, competitive work "Dancing"
3 rd place: Matysik, Bertram Heinrich, competitive work "What`s crisis ? Let`s party !"
3 place: Nasibullov Marat, competitive work "The Old Man and Life

Nomination "Naive Art"
1 place: Krapivina Anna, competitive work "Angel"

Nomination "Still Life"
1 place: Vadim Stolyarov, competitive work "Awakening"

Nomination "Landscape"
1 st place: Jasna Dragun, competitive work "Back home"

Nomination "Portrait"
1 place: Afonina Saida, a competition of "The Girl with the ship," "Good Morning"

Nomination "Experimental Painting"
1 place: Tatiana Olsson, a competition of "My angel", "Dancing", "Vzgljad", "VZLJET"

Nomination "Religious Painting"
1 place: Olsson Tatiana, competitive work "INRI"

Nomination "Fantasy"
1 st place: Ilona Van Hoek, competitive work "Thornton NH USA", "Thornton NH", "Sircle of life"

II. International Graphic Competition

Nomination Academic drawing "
1 st place: Matysik, Gerd Friedrich, competitive work "Embrace"

Nomination "Graphic Design"
1 st place: Zita Klovaite Haagensen, Triptych "Slavic world-Inside" "

Nomination "Graphic design (experimental schedule)
1 place: Naumova Olga, Series "Naked"
1 place: Dmitry Myasnikov, competitive work "Kuren Sholokhov", "Veshenskyi Kuren""

Nomination "National Graphics"
1 place: Bahilina Tatiana, competitive work "Donna che amo", "Fish and Bird"

Nomination "Iillyustratsiya folk tales (classic)
1 place: Sparrow Olga, competitive work "Russian traditions, holidays and ceremonies"
1 place: Yatskevich Alexander, a competition of "Defenders" â„–, "The vanity end"

Nomination "Illustrations of folk tales (vanguard)"
1 place: Danilochkina Anastasia, competitive work "Power Perkūnas"

Nomination "The illustrations of contemporary works (classic)"
1 place: Dmitry series "Reflections on the Kuban. Leaf number 1"

Nomination "Illustrations of contemporary works (the vanguard)
1 place: Kolganova Tatiana, competitive work "Winter-Dream Land"

Nomination "Computer Graphics"
1 place: Permyakova Olga, competitive work "Dvudushnik""

III. International Photography Competition

 Nomination "Art-photo"
1 place: Ivanov, Vadim, Series "ever-burning light of hope"

Nomination "Architecture"
1 st place: Karolina BOGACZEWICZ, a series of "Paris"

Nomination "Landscape"
1 place: Anatoliy Grachev, Viktor Grachev, a competition of "Fantastic Forest", "Lily of the Valley"

Nomination "Plastic Forms"
1 st place: Tarja Trygg, competitive work "Suomenniemi"

Nomination "Everyday Life"
1 place: Yuri Chernev, competitive work "Teach me to fly," "Road Home"

Nomination "Portrait"
1 st place: Karolina BOGACZEWICZ, competitive work "My father"

Nomination "Experimental photo"
1 st place: Tarja Trygg, competitive work "Arabia"

IV. International Sculpture Competition

Nomination "Round Sculpture (Vanguard)"
1 place: Nelyubina Tatiana, the competitive work "Rest"

Nomination "Round Sculpture (Classic)"
1 place: Vakhmistrov Paul, competitive work "Narcissus"

Nomination "Barelief sculpture"
1 st place: Martine Nystedt-Milhau, competitive work "I've just captured Ice"

V. International Crafts Competition

Nomination "Embroidery"
1 place: Damadanova Said, Embroidery Flowers of Russia "

Nomination "Decorative sculpture and carving"
1 st place: Paul Minin, competitive work "Archangel Michael"
1 st place: Zelman Genia, competitive work "house of the Lord" - "ORTHODOX CHURCH"

Nomination Decorative "panel "
1 place: Tchaikovsky Olga, Three Hierarchs

Nomination "Design of folk costumes, footwear, headgear"
1 place: Dry Natalia costume "White dance"

Nomination "Dolls and Toys"
1 place: Alimov, Lyudmila, competitive work "The Bride", "Duniasha"

Nomination "The paintings and inlay"
1 place: Igor Orlov, a competitive work "Gift Ensemble" Samovar, tray and kettle "

Nomination "Fabric paintings"
1 place: Minin Larissa, Triptych "The Birth of Amber"

Nomination "Souvenirs and Gifts"
1 place: Zolotarev Elena, Series Trays: Omsk temples 1) St. Nicholas Church, 2) Cross Cathedral, 3) Chapel of the Holy Great Martyr George

Nomination "Jewelry and Accessories
1 place: Vladislav Thunder, the competitive work "The Seasons. Autumn. Spring"

> Listing of all Winners Lithuanian Artweek 2nd & 3rd see at :
http://www.artweek.lt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=208&Itemid=56&lang=en

Congratulations to all !

Artmatysik proudly announces that Artmatysik FineArts Artist Dr. Gerd Matysk has received the honor to gain the unexspected 1st place in a really hard International Graphic Competition - Academic drawing, featuring his work "embrace", pastel on paper, in that master category of Lithuanian ArtWeek Competition on the top.

Further on Artmatysik`s artist and brother Bertram Matysik wins in the Lithuanian ArtWeek`s International Painting competition the exciting 2nd place in the category "Animalistic Painting" with his work´ "Jaguar - the animal" - painting oil,

and also the 3rd place in the category "Genre Painting" with his well known and legendary art work "What crisis ? Let`s party ! - Miami Homestead - in memorial for Versace", painting oil, female beautiy in Versacer Fashion, first exhibitied at X-Power Gallery USA on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills in April 2009, then Russian Artweek 2009 in Moscow.

Luthuanian ArtWeek - What an Art Show !
Having the amazing attractions and the magnificent art events of the just closed Lithuanian Art Week in mind we can indeed wonder and look with great excitement and expectations forward to the next upcoming "Art-Weeks" in Moscow & St. Petersberg or the BELARUS ART WEEK all coming up in April 2010.

Sure we will see there once again international and cultural happenings with the impressive importance for contemporary arts offering the amazing experience no real artlover shall leave out.


More Information:
Lithuanian Art Week Vilnius : http://www.artweek.lt
Russian Art Week Moscow : http://www.russianartweek.com/
St. Petersburg Art Week : http://www.spbartweek.com/
Belarus Art Week : http://www.artweek.by/
Ukrainian Art Week Kiev : http://www.artweek.org/

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http://www.artmatysik.org
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@ Lithuanian Art Week:
WINNING works of Bertram & Dr. Gerd Matysik :

1)
"embrace" by Dr. Gerd Matysik,
pastel on paper, 65 cm x 50 cm
> http://www.artmatysik.org/gfm_gallery_1.html
Lithuanian ArtWeek Graphic Competition: 1st place in the catergory "Academic drawing"

2)
"jaguar - the animal" by Bertram Matysik
oil on canvas, 160 cm x 100 cm
> http://www.artmatysik.org/bm_gallery_1.html
Lithuanian ArtWeek Painting competition: 2nd place in the category "Animalistic Painting"

3)
"What`s crisis ? Let´s party - Miami Homestead May 2008, in memorial for Versace" by Bertram Matysik
exhibited at X-Power Gallery USA, Beverly_Hills, Rodeo Drive 2009 & Russian Art Week 2009 in Moscow & St.Petersberg, female beauty in Versace-Fashion, oil on canvas, 120 cm x 100 cm
> http://www.artmatysik.org/bm_gallery_3.html
Lithuanian ArtWeek Painting competition: 3rd place in the category "Genre Painting"

 

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