Rimantas Dichavičius: artist, photographer, and publisher
October 17, 4:00 p.m.
The album highlights the artist’s first steps into the world of art at the Kaunas School of Art on Owl Hill, where, at the age of fifteen, he received his first solid foundations in drawing and painting. He later continued his studies at the Faculty of Graphics of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. The album presents his diploma work in wood engraving titled “1863.”
Since 1963, the artist worked at the editorial office of Moksleivis magazine, and later at the Mintis publishing house as an art editor, collaborating with other publishers and magazines. Looking back on that time today, we often marvel at the lasting cultural impact left by Lithuanian artists. The older generation who worked in the press remember it as an era when GLAVLIT (the censorship authority) monitored and controlled every movement, word, and image. Nevertheless, everyone continued doing their work as best they could—often in silence, through compromise, or by using Aesopian language. Among them was the author of this album, who created book illustrations, posters, ex libris prints, and book covers. In parallel, he worked in photography, creating rich and vivid series such as “Old Lithuanian Village,” “In the World of Forms,” “Flowers Among Flowers,” “The Artist and His Studio,” and continues his series “In Search of the Formula of Beauty.”
Rimantas Dichavičius has published two author’s albums – “Flowers Among Flowers” and “Visions.” With his many years of experience in book publishing, he decided to independently publish books and albums dedicated to art, preparing and releasing monographs of various artists. His most notable publications include “BalticArt,” Šarūnas Sauka, Antanas Kmieliauskas (two editions), Algimantas Švažas, Giedrius Kazimierėnas, Indra Grušaitė, and the three-volume collection “Marked by Freedom: Artists for the Restored Lithuanian State.”
The monograph Rimantas Dichavičius consists of 464 pages and features 853 color and black-and-white illustrations, produced to the highest printing standards. The album was prepared and published by the author himself.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase on-site, along with the opportunity to receive the author’s autograph.