Rūta Jusionytė’s style has been shaped by a number of key factors – for a decade she belonged to the group of French expressionists, and in parallel, her work has been influenced by the currents of the new objectivity and magical realism.
Rūta Jusionytė, a painter, draftswoman, and sculptor, who has been living and working in Paris since 2001, was born in Klaipėda, Lithuania, graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and has exhibited in galleries in France, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, and Lithuania. But sometimes it is tempting to hypothetically consider what Rūta’s work would be like if the cards of fate had been dealt differently – if she had stayed in her hometown, and if the city of art and love had only opened up to her through the eyes of a tourist or, at best, an artist in residence. Rūta would not have been awarded the prestigious Diplome de l’Academie des Beaux-Arts (2015), she would not have met so many interesting people, gallerists, and art critics, and experienced so many emotional stories. Rūta Jusionytė’s style has been shaped by a number of key factors – for a decade she belonged to the group of French expressionists, and in parallel, her work has been influenced by the currents of the new objectivity and magical realism. All this rich, inexhaustible European culture fused and polished the artist’s individual style. The project LOVE ALCHEMY is an emotional charge in which the accumulated challenges of life and creativity “spilled out” in a variety of media: drawing, painting, sculpture, watercolor...