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| CEMETERY |
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| Author: Vladas Balsys |
| Form: installation. |
| Date: 2000 |
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| CITY OF SUPPOSITITIOUS SIGNS |
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| “…action of art was called “Signs in the city”. Usual signed system of city was supplemented or transformed with |
| signs, symbols, unexpected, bold or subtle sculptural accents, offered by artists. Such signed interventions as often |
| as not changes usual course of movement, glimpse, causes “short” in imagination and compels to view living space |
| more fixedly, to plunge into reverie about its signed nature…” |
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| “…However, Vladas Balsys “Cemetery”, wandered to the new suburbs, appeared to be the most dramatic. Fixing |
| matchboxes, painted in black, symmetrically regularly to the blocks of multistoried houses author predicts sad |
| perspective for residents of the sleeping precincts of cities: residents, closed in symmetrical spaces, have only |
| one possibility – prolong the triumph of order and rationality measuring black ground of cemeteries. Work of Vladas |
| Balsys distinguishes for laconicism, choice of individual place and voluminous signed content of minimalistic work…” |
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| Virginijus Kincinaitis |
