Europos Parkas (the "Park of Europe") is a 50-hectare open-air museum located 17 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. The museum gives an artistic significance to the geographic centre of the European continent (as determined by the French National Geographic Institute in 1989) and presents Lithuanian and international modern art. The location of the geographical centre of Europe depends on the definition of the borders of Europe, mainly whether remote islands are included to define the Extreme The Institut Géographique National (National Geographic Institute or IGN is a French public state administrative establishment founded in 1940 whose task is to History of Modern art Roots in the 19th century Although modern Sculpture and Architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the nineteenth
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Collection
The museum exhibits more than 90 works from 27 countries, including Armenia, Belarus, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Russia, the United States, and Venezuela.
The collection includes large-scale works by the contemporary artists Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sol LeWitt, Ales Vesely and Dennis Oppenheim[1], among others. Magdalena Abakanowicz (b June 20 1930, Falenty, Poland) is a Polish Sol LeWitt ( September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was Aleš Veselý (born February 3 1935 in Čáslav) is a Czech sculptor
Three of the pieces that are most frequently mentioned by the park's international visitors are:
- LNK Infotree, by Gintaras Karosas, was included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest artwork. The artist founder of Europos Parkas, creator of its landscape and President of the non-profit organisation Europos parkas was born in Kryziokai village Vilnius district The sculpture, which includes 3,000 television sets, is a 700-meter labyrinth in the form of a tree, with a toppled statue of Lenin in its center. The monument evokes television's power to disseminate propaganda, and the eventual regrowth of the truth.
- Monument of the Centre of Europe, by Karosas, is a series of granite plaques on which are chiseled the names of the capital cities of Europe and their distances from the park.
- Voices Underground, by Patricia Goodrich, is a multimedia presentation that includes wildflower seeds and flowering bulbs planted on a 300-square-foot site. The audio component includes 44 artists from 15 countries speaking about their artistic journeys, creative processes, and life passages, in English and their native languages.
History
Europos Parkas was founded by Karosas as a 19-year-old art student. In 1987, he found a place near Vilnius that struck him as a home for his vision, and started landscaping the site.
In 1991, Karosas placed the first sculpture at the site. The contribution of a work by the American conceptual artist Dennis Oppenheim in 1996 excited international interest in the project. Gintaras Karosas continues to be involved in new contributions: the location of each piece is chosen to harmonize with the site's water features, its surrounding trees, shrubs, and flowers, and its daily patterning of lights and shadows.
Activities
Since 1993, the park has hosted annual International Sculpture Symposias; it hosts international artist-in-residence programs twice a year. The International Sculpture Symposium movement was spearheaded by Karl Prantl in Austria in 1959. Concerts and festivals are held, and a conference center is located at the park.
External links
- Open Air Museum of the Centre of Europe Official website of the park
- Artist-in-Residence Programs
- Voices Underground at Europos Parkas
- 2006 International competition to develop a sculpture at Europos Parkas on the theme of Light, Electricity, Energy
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