Tadas Dromantas, Form in the Void, February 9-28, 2023

Tadas Dromantas work is dominated by the landscape. It is an abstracted landscape image, often turning into a background color composition to accommodate narrow, "Giacometti" figures. Favorite motifs of the coast, ships, water reflections, walks, meetings. The firmament of the sky or a body of water often becomes the dominant space of the picture, submerging the small human figure in its greatness...
Individual silhouettes of people in the works are scattered randomly, not adhering to a strict compositional structure, thus only emphasizing their fragility and transience in this world. The paintings are dominated by the theme of human existence, the analysis of the relationship with the environment and the other. And the author himself claims that the question of being occupies an important place in his work: "Three questions that interest me in work: What is painting, how is it?" How is that which is expressed in being? What are the possible forms of this essential expression?'
T. Dromantas painting is emotional, expressionistic..., echoing the style of painting developed by the British painter William Turner. However, in contrast to the refreshing spirit of W. Turner, the strokes of T. Dromantas of recent years are sensitively vibrating, almost touching the surface of the canvas, sometimes in their nature even more characteristic of watercolor than oil painting. The multi-layered, nuanced coloring only strengthens faith in the painter's primordial vocation, his professionalism, love for color and its representation.

Art critic Goda Giedraitytė.