Andrius Maslekovas

Andrius Maslekovas— Shadows of Nocturnal Canvasses

         It is extremely rare for an artist to combine several seemingly different artistic activities as successfully as did Lithuanian composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. His visual and musical works represent a unique kind of cohesion. I have always considered his pictorial imaginary worlds to be the pinnacle of Lithuanian art, thus this composition represents my reflection of a few nocturnal scenes of Čiurlionis‘s paintings. Here we find the controversy of this idea, as it is the visual art of Čiurlionis that depicts his musical ideas, he painted a number of fugues, sonatas and even symphonies. This composition, in the meantime, is my attempt to permute the nocturnal images from Čiurlionis’s paintings, as well physical and (often unstable) emotional gestures of his paintbrush into the auditory domain. It is an attempt to acoustically re-paint his brush-born nocturnal canvasses, which begin to turn into music at a break of dawn...