XII Young Painter Prize Book
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14<br />
J U R Y :<br />
Vilmantas Marcinkevičius -<br />
a Lithuanian painter, initiator of international competition for young<br />
artists - <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Painter</strong> <strong>Prize</strong>, art collector. His artistic style was shaped<br />
while studying at Vilnius Academy of Arts during the collapse of the<br />
Soviet Union. After finishing his studies, the artist and his works were<br />
soon noticed by art collectors from Denmark. Thanks to NB Galleri<br />
galerist Thorkild Nielsen who is exhibiting his paintings in Scandinavia<br />
more than 20 years, nowadays, his artworks are amongst<br />
the tops of the Northern Europe art market. In 2019 he earned<br />
Lithuanian Art Creator Association award for the <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Painter</strong> <strong>Prize</strong><br />
(together with colleague Julija Dailidėnaitė), in 2009 he won online<br />
Showdown competition run by the Saatchi Gallery, were was<br />
displayed his painting “Madonna of the 21st Century”. His numerous<br />
exhibitions in Europe, Asia and US, prizes and commissions bear<br />
witness of an artist who is living a really active artistic life.<br />
Artworks of Vilmantas astonish: spontaneous power of gesture, huge<br />
sizes of canvases, impudent colors, ironical and insolent themes, vivid<br />
colors expressionally flow, splash, spurt, wander and cover the<br />
canvas. He has been featured in private and public collections around<br />
the world including The Danish Royal Family Collection, Lithuanian<br />
National Gallery, Mo museum, Lewben Art Foundation.
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