维塔斯▪卢克斯 现实之外Vitas Luckus. Beyond Reality
维塔斯▪卢克斯（1943-1987）是立陶宛摄影的原始开创者之一。20世纪60年代以来他对立陶宛摄影学校的建立作出了巨大的贡献，他创作了很多卓越的经典摄影作品并在应用摄影领域取得了很大的成就。然而，传统摄影对维塔斯来说是远远不够的：他开始构建他自己独特的影像世界，同时结合现实和幻想;这个世界的构成、颜色或者观察的切入点彻底改变了他对待现实的感知。在创造性工作和传统生活方式上面跳出传统思维定式，维塔斯似乎一直在外围行走。他的能力，与周边世界直接的亲密关系以及他对他作品特征的才能表达使他在其他艺术家中脱颖而出。Vitas Luckus (1943–1987) is one of the most original figures in Lithuanian photography. Since 1960s he had contributed to the formation of Lithuanian photography school, created many remarkable works of classical photograph and successfully worked in the field of applied photography. However, conventional photography was not enough for him: he started constructing his peculiar world of images while combining reality and fantasy; the world where composition, colour or point of viewing altered the perception of reality drastically. Being out-of-the-box personality in terms of both creative work and traditional lifestyle in general, Vitas seemed to walk in the periphery. He stood out from the others because of his energy and immediate and extremely close relation to the surrounding world and because of the ability to render the features in his works.
尽管维塔斯是一个真正的传奇，不仅仅是在立陶宛，还在在整个苏联，但是维塔斯只有过几个短暂的个人摄影展，他并没有活着看到他的作品出版在任何刊物上。在这个艺术家戏剧性的去世后，他的遗孀塔尼亚离开立陶宛定居在了美国，并带走了维塔斯所有的摄影作品。之后花了超过20年的时间才重新发现了这个艺术家的创作遗产：在2013年的维塔斯▪卢克斯摄影回顾展“让我们进入一个新的世界”在维尔纽斯国家美术馆举办（展览的策展人是Margarita Matulytė）;在2014年这个艺术家的专著在阿尔勒国际摄影节上荣获了历史图书奖的提名。通过这种方式，卢克斯的名字最终开始进入了世界摄影史。Despite being a true legend not only in Lithuania but also in the entire Soviet Union, Vitas had just a few personal exhibitions and did not live to see any solid publication of his works. After dramatic death of the artist, his widow Tania left to the USA with all his photography archive. It took more than 20 years to rediscover creative legacy of the artist: in 2013 a retrospective of photography by Vitas Luckus Let’s Enter a New World was held in the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius (the curator of the exhibition was Margarita Matulytė); in 2014 the artist’s monograph was awarded in the nomination Historical Book Award in the international photography festival Rencontres d‘Arles. In this way, the name Luckus has finally started its way into the history of world photography.
在此介绍了维塔斯▪卢克斯最富有概念性和创造性的摄影作品：摄影系列 重回复古摄影（1969年至1983年），甜蜜心情（1975-1983），哑剧（1968-1972），即兴哑剧（1971-1973），肖像特写（1968年至1986年）和在他去世几周前创造的系列 白色背景（1987年）。在这个展览上展出的所有系列都揭示了这个艺术家对待艺术媒介非传统的姿态，他试图超越传统形式，让自己走出思维的局限性。Inside-Out Art Museum introduces the most conceptual part of Vitas Luckus creative work: photography series A Take on Vintage Photography (1969–1983), Sweet Mood (1975–1983), Mimes (1968–1972), Improvising Pantomime (1971–1973), Close-up Portrait (1968–1986) and the series created a few weeks prior to his death Against a White Background (1987). All the series introduced in the exhibition reveal the artist’s unconventional attitude to media, his attempt to overstep it as well as to overstep himself and the limitations of thinking.
