Mykolas Valantinas. Father
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius•Nov 07, 2025 — Mar 01, 2026
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Until March 1, 2026, the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) will host the solo exhibition ‘Father’ by the artist Mykolas Valentinas. The starting point of this exhibition is the archive of drawings and prints by his father, artist Rytis Valantinas, which the son transforms using artificial intelligence. The filter of new technologies brings to the surface the contradictory dynamics between father and son: a mixture of adoration and a ‘desire’ to appropriate or ‘take over’ the father’s work. The AI-generated images that interpolate the archive are exhibited alongside another essential offshoot of the father’s creative oeuvre – money.
Rytis Valantinas is the author of some of the first banknotes of independent Lithuania – the talonas and litas. He also created a 1000-litas note that never entered circulation. The exhibition presents money in a twofold manner: as a political, cultural and economic symbol – the heritage of an entire nation – and as a family relic, laden with memories and claims…
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Mykolas Valantinas. Father
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius•Nov 07, 2025 — Mar 01, 2026
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Until March 1, 2026, the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) will host the solo exhibition ‘Father’ by the artist Mykolas Valentinas. The starting point of this exhibition is the archive of drawings and prints by his father, artist Rytis Valantinas, which the son transforms using artificial intelligence. The filter of new technologies brings to the surface the contradictory dynamics between father and son: a mixture of adoration and a ‘desire’ to appropriate or ‘take over’ the father’s work. The AI-generated images that interpolate the archive are exhibited alongside another essential offshoot of the father’s creative oeuvre – money.
Rytis Valantinas is the author of some of the first banknotes of independent Lithuania – the talonas and litas. He also created a 1000-litas note that never entered circulation. The exhibition presents money in a twofold manner: as a political, cultural and economic symbol – the heritage of an entire nation – and as a family relic, laden with memories and claims…
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