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Punctuated Vasarely paintings could not be more perfect for a cover of a candy box on a coffee table. Rasters stand for poppy-seeds. ?Patterns? is a 10 min. film from the perspective of patterns telling about the search, appropriation and translocation of various patterns and fonts by artists that worked in the first Experimental Bureau of Artistic Construction in Soviet Union. In 1964, the first Experimental Office of Artistic Construction in Soviet Union was established in Vilnius, Lithuania, and worked until the collapse of the Communist regime in 1991. Photographers, graphic designers, artists and printing-house worked under one roof creating logos and graphic design for different parts of the Union. The artists (unconsciously) appropriated works of other artists in West in order to use parts of the ornaments and patterns they liked for the applied graphic design they created. The project tells this social life of the patterns ? their appropriation and displacement from the Western high art to applied arts in Soviet Union. Fragments of op-art painting by Vasarely became patterns for candy boxes, and entire meaningful texts were deconstructed and re-constructed enjoying only the formal beauty of a linear character. However, the constant search of patterns in the film flips ? the ornaments and underlying geometric shapes start to haunt the viewer eventually taking over the film itself. Artist looking for patterns: Juozapas Antanas Gelguda

Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Cerniauskaite started collaborating in 2009. They are represented by gallery VARTAI, Vilnius. Since their first project, the artists have been interested in visual memory and how it can be manipulated through usage of certain mediums. Their latest works include 16 mm films, photo slides, neon objects, vinyl, and are strongly influenced by material history and language of cinema. Both artists are based in Vilnius and Brooklyn, New York. Ugnius Gelguda?s (born 1977, Lithuania) artistic portfolio includes photography, time-based media art projects. Neringa Cerniauskaite (born 1984, Lithuania) is an art critic, curator, editor. She contributes texts for Lithuanian cultural press, exhibitions? catalogues and international magazines (Flash Art, Mousse Magazine, Parkett, ARTMargins.com, MAP). She is a M.A. candidate, 2014, at Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, NY. Artists will present their latest solo projects at NADA NEW YORK 2014, ART BRUSSELS 2014, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC, Vilnius), Contemporary Art Centre kim? (Riga).