Žudys Adomas

Recently, Vilnius was decorated with another piece of street art. Artist Adomas Žudys left a drawing on the wall of the building at Konstitucijos pr. 23, which enlivens the gray building and reveals that it is home to an art space.

The artist, who is rapidly gaining popularity not only in Lithuania but also abroad, stands out among his colleagues for his attempts to combine digital and street art.

“The drawing at the intersection of Konstitucijos pr. and Linkmenų gātva was created by combining street art with digital. I am currently experimenting with the 3D scanning technique, which scans various objects, for example, posing people, and transfers their three-dimensional image to a computer program. By playing with the textures revealed during the scanning and the naturally formed lines, I aim to achieve the effect of volume in two-dimensional space – on walls or canvases,” said A. Žudys.

The work at Konstitucijos pr. 23 was commissioned by Vidmantas Martikonis and adds to his private collection of Self-Portraits a new genre – a drawing created with the help of digital technologies, in this case – on the wall of an art gallery.

Artist A. Žudys predicts that art based on digital technologies should become very popular. “The interaction of digital technologies and art opens up greater opportunities for scientists – physicists, chemists, programmers, bio-programmers and researchers of interdisciplinary sciences – to get involved in the world of art, and at the same time it also increases the audience for that art. When creating using the scanning principle or stencils, I myself feel like a researcher of geometric forms,” said the artist.

A. Žudys is inspired by digital technologies and the transfer of 3D computer images to a two-dimensional plane – be it a house wall or a canvas common to artists, onto which the artist transfers his works using the technique of stencils and spray paint.

In 2014, A.Žudys was invited by the Vilnius Street Art festival to participate in a street painting program with young artists. Here, Adam was noticed by the festival’s partners from the contemporary art platform in Berlin, Urban Nation, who later invited him to join international projects.

Over the past year, A.Žudys has also participated in the famous street art festival “Memorie Urbane” in Italy, in the collective exhibition of young artists at the Vartai gallery, opened a personal exhibition at the Lithuanian bar “Pankė” in Berlin, participated in the project “Sudie Elyza!” curated by the Vilnius Street Art festival during the Culture Night, and recently at the Newman festival in Lithuania.

The third international street art festival “Vilnius Street Art” will begin on August 19, 2015.