A moment of grace. Life input to the volume She wants to see and we also. But his face still today escapes us. In a street of the old Vilnius, a man short. A young woman looks at her window. All the magic of Antanas Sutkus is gathered in this photo taken in 1959. It is part of the blows of heart Elton John and his collection of which a part has been exposed at the Tate Gallery in London in 2017. A photo that we can return to Paris until the end of June 2020.
The Czechs have Josef Koudelkathe Hungarians, André Kertész, and the Lithuanians, Antanas Sutkus. The French are beginning to discover this master of photography Lithuanian at work profuse : 700 000 images. Lizza Fetissova has chosen to dedicate an exhibition until the end of the month of June. Installed for twenty years in France, she is the eye of Moscow to Paris. She has contributed to the spread of the photos ofOleg Dou, specialized in photomontage, and Sergey Maximishin. She would like to do the same today with Antanas Sutkus.
The eye of a rebel, in the margins of History and propaganda, this artist, born in 1939, is attached to capture the life of Lithuanians in closer. It captures like few others the light of his eyes, a veil of sadness. You ask me why I became a photographer ? It is as if you were to ask me why I loved
he says sometimes. His father was a militant communist. When the Russians arrived, they forced him to denounce his comrades. It was above its forces and the father of Antanas Sutkus has preferred to commit suicide. And today it is saddened when her eyes rise on this company, so free and yet so far from what he dreamed of. We are going through a crisis of soul
he says about the post-communist society.
The tragic dimension of the Story, Lizza Fetissova knows it, all of the springs. His grandmother was deported by the nazis. His mother was born at the gates of the camp under Stalin. In this gallery from the boulevard de la Tour Maubourg, the one that is at a good distance away from Russia poutinienne sketch of a dance on the floor, arranging flowers in a small cup, smiling, happy to meet visitors after two months of confinement she has used to engage with the photos in small sequences, which can be found on Youtube.
Practice. Gallery Durev Events, 56, boulevard de la Tour Maubourg, Paris 7th. Until the end of the month of June, 2020, Tuesday to Saturday, 14 h to 19-h.
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