Night in the Park l, 2011, oil on canvas, 70x100cm

In Alonas Štelmanas painting, night often becomes not a landscape, but an inner state, a space in which reality intertwines with an unreal feeling. In the painting Night in the Park I, the artist creates a laconic, yet emotionally suggestive image, based on a dialogue of contrasting color fields and expressive strokes. The dark, pastotically painted plane here absorbs the environment, while bright violet and pink accents emerge like signs or feelings, forming a minimalist, almost symbolic narrative. Štelmanas work is characterized by a borderline state between reality and imagination, where everyday forms transform into unreal, archetypal signs. Night in the Park I is not a specific park, but a territory of night, where light becomes a fragile possibility of a landmark, and space becomes an introspective, melancholic spectacle. The artist's expressive brushstrokes, rich colors, and deliberately simplified form create a tension between naivety and existential silence. This is characteristic of A. Štelmanas painting style.

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Alonas Štelmanas

Born in 1978 in Kaunas, Lithuania
In 2004, he graduated from VDA painting studies, Vilnius.
Solo exhibitions
2005 Suodiniai-juodiniai, I.Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas.
2005 Painting exhibition, Egle Gallery, Kaunas
2005 Bridge, I.Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas.
2005 Night painting, Art Gallery Kauno Langas
2006 On the rails, I.Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas.
2007 Oil pastel exhibition The Ponds, I.Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas
2009 Charred figures, I. Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas
2010 Full Moon, I. Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas
2011 Song of Trees, I. Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas
2012 The Necrophilia, Meno Nisa Gallery, Vilnius;
2012 Night Personas, I. Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas.
2012 Waiting for Dawn, Pamenkalnio Gallery, Vilnius.
2013 Fairies, Meno Nisa Gallery, Vilnius.
Group exhibitions
2003 We are coming. Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2005 To an unknown artist. Irena Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas
2005 Birstonas outdoor exhibition, I. Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas
2006 Birstonas plein-air exhibition, I.Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas
2006 Painting exhibition, Art Gallery Kauno Langas, Kaunas
2007 Painting exhibition, gallery Arka, Vilnius
2007 Painting exhibition, gallery Arka, Vilnius
2007 Birstonas plein-air exhibition, I.Mikuliciute Art Gallery, Kaunas
2017 Romantics, curator Agne Kulbyte, Arka, Vilnius
2021 Between Realities, curator Alge Gyliene, Art Gallery Kauno Langas, Kaunas.
International art fairs
2020 ArtVilnius`20
2015 ArtVilnius`15

There are paintings in Lithuanian and foreign museums, in private collections.

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