Žilvinas Kempinas

Zilvinas Kempinas studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts during the time when Lithuania was one of the first republics to declare sovereignty from the Soviet Union in 1990.

– Roberta Smith[4] Kempinas employs nontraditional materials to create active and dynamic exhibits, most commonly as installations.

[7]" “Utilizing industrial fans in his installations to undulate loops of videotape, Žilvinas Kempinas creates gracious gestures in space that are at once minimalistic and yet keenly present.

In response to the expanse of Calder’s studio and the surrounding hills, Kempinas began working on a much larger scale in Saché.

The dimensions of his now famous Tube (2008), a shimmering walkway of magnetic tape that ultimately filled the Lithuanian Pavilion in the 2009 Venice Biennale, was maximally scaled to fit the volume of the Saché studio.

I want people to forget for a second what they are looking at and inhabit a parallel world, where abstract things make perfect sense as long as you are willing to take the time to look."