Life in Color — Lithuanian Artists for Peace

Within the RAW for Peace program, part of the Rome Art Week, the exhibition Life in Color — Lithuanian Artists for Peace, curated by Ilaria Giacobbi for Morsi d’Arte, presents a collective reflection on the theme of peace through the language of contemporary painting.

The exhibition brings together a selection of Lithuanian artists, invited to freely engage with the theme without iconographic or narrative constraints, through an autonomous research grounded in the expressive potential of color and the personal dimension of artistic gesture. The result is a heterogeneous path in which each work becomes a fragment of vision, contributing to a broader collective discourse.

Color emerges as the central and unifying element of the exhibition: not merely a formal component, but a tool for articulating visual thought. In some works it appears as dense, layered matter; in others as a more subtle, atmospheric vibration, reflecting different approaches to representation and abstraction.

In this context, peace is not presented as a fixed image or a single theme, but as an open condition, shaped through individual sensitivity. The curatorial choice of maintaining a free thematic approach avoids rhetoric and instead encourages a more authentic and multifaceted reading.

The project is further enriched by the presence of Le Mikke, whose work introduces an additional layer of reflection.

Their practice reveals a visual and conceptual tension that resonates with aspects of contemporary American art, particularly the radical and identity-driven aesthetics of Barbara Kruger.

As in Kruger’s work, the visual language of Le Mikke operates as a direct and assertive device: images and signs do not merely represent, but act, establishing an engagement with the viewer that is both aesthetic and political. However, while the American artist works within a codified system of media appropriation and critique, Le Mikke develop a more fluid and hybrid approach, where visual language intersects with the body, fashion, and everyday performativity.

It is precisely within this shift that their specificity emerges: where American visual grammar tends toward graphic and ideological synthesis, Le Mikke construct a more porous language, shaped by contamination and interaction, in which the image becomes an inhabitable and identity-driven space.

Through the use of text printed on textile supports, the message moves from representation to action: the word becomes an immediate statement, carried by the body and projected into public space. In this dialogue between image and word, painting and direct communication converge into a shared expressive field.

Life in Color thus unfolds as an open platform, where multiple voices coexist without being reduced to a single synthesis. It is within this tension between the individual and the collective that the project finds its strength, offering a reflection on peace not as a fixed condition, but as an ongoing process.

ℹ️ Information

Opening: April 24, 2026 · 19:00–22:00

Exhibition period: April 24 – May 2, 2026

Location:

Domani Smetto – Bistrot di Quartiere

Art curator: Ilaria Giacobbi

Artists:

Lilija Kavaliauskiene

Jūratė Bytautė

Rita Grikšienė

Areta Didžionienė

Gabrielė Kuizinaitė

Lina Danilieė

Indrė Gražulevičiūtė-Vileniškė

In collaboration with: Le Mikke

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With the support of: Morsi d’Arte

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