Klaipėda Ethnoculture Centre hall from 7 March to 1 April – exhibition of drawings “Old Iron Crosses” by artist Irena Šarkuvienė. At the opening event of the exhibition on 12 March at 5.30 p.m. you are invited to take part in an educational session on the secrets of drawing led by the artist.
About the author
Irena Šarkuvienė was born1968 05 01 01 in Klaipėda. Blacksmith. Painter. In 1988 she graduated from Telšiai Applied Art Technical College, where she acquired a specialisation in artistic metalworking. She devoted a decade to ceramics, then looked for another creative path. Irena paints paintings, creates jewellery, small blacksmith’s works, but lately she prefers to use a pencil and a brush. She lives and works in her homestead in Švėkšno.
Irena Šarkuvienė has been painting cemetery crosses since 1989. 4 years ago, when she started to visit the cemeteries of the region more intensively, according to the map, she added new recordings of the surviving crosses to her already quite extensive collection of about 100 crosses. She draws inspiration and determination to continue this mission from the examples of the art of cross-carving that she finds in the forest cemeteries, which are no longer seen or cared about. The author’s penetrating gaze turned to metal crosses, which, although already fallen down and rusted, are still very beautiful. These works of sacred folk art (it is difficult to identify the craftsman who made the crosses), elements of their decoration and construction, which have been thoroughly analysed and recorded in Irena Šarkuvienė’s drawings, will be admired by everyone who visits the author’s exhibition at the Klaipėda Ethno-Cultural Centre.
Irena Šarkuvienė was born1968 05 01 01 in Klaipėda. Blacksmith. Painter. In 1988 she graduated from Telšiai Applied Art Technical College, where she acquired a specialisation in artistic metalworking. She devoted a decade to ceramics, then looked for another creative path. Irena paints paintings, creates jewellery, small blacksmith’s works, but lately she prefers to use a pencil and a brush. She lives and works in her homestead in Švėkšno.
Irena Šarkuvienė has been painting cemetery crosses since 1989. 4 years ago, when she started to visit the cemeteries of the region more intensively, according to the map, she added new recordings of the surviving crosses to her already quite extensive collection of about 100 crosses. She draws inspiration and determination to continue this mission from the examples of the art of cross-carving that she finds in the forest cemeteries, which are no longer seen or cared about. The author’s penetrating gaze turned to metal crosses, which, although already fallen down and rusted, are still very beautiful. These works of sacred folk art (it is difficult to identify the craftsman who made the crosses), elements of their decoration and construction, which have been thoroughly analysed and recorded in Irena Šarkuvienė’s drawings, will be admired by everyone who visits the author’s exhibition at the Klaipėda Ethno-Cultural Centre.
Free admission
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The event may be filmed and/or photographed and the footage may be made public
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The event may be filmed and/or photographed and the footage may be made public
Irena Šarkuvienė’s exhibition of drawings “Old Iron Crosses” – dedicated to the M.K. Čiurlionis Year.
