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LINE 1999
International Textile Art Exhibition
Kaunas

Exhibition organizer:
Lithuanian Artists Assosiation, Kaunas Department
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Organizers‘ Committee:
Zinaida Dargiene
Genovaite Sasnauskiene
Dalia Draugienė

Architect of Exhibition:
Gražina Pajarskaitė

Participants:
Grand Prix - Anita Celma (Latvia)
Diploma - Katrė Karina Matiukienė (Lithuania)
Diploma – Laima Oržekauskienė (Lithuania)
Diploma – Gražina Martinkevičienė (Lithuania)
Diploma – Vita Gelūnienė (Lithuania)
Diploma – Lina Jonikienė (Lithuania)
Diploma – Raminta Baltrušytė (Lithuania)

Barbara Abele (Latvia), Tatjana Aleksandra (Latvia), Agnele Augstkalna (Latvia), Joan Baxter (England), Liucija Banaitienė (Lithuania), Palmyra Bartkevičiūtė (Lithuania), Henrika Bartkutė (Lithuania), Aija Baumane (Latvia), Danguolė Bečelytė – Čachavičienė (Lithuania), Irisa Blimate (Latvia), Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė (Lithuania), Ruta Bogustova (Latvia), Lelde Brake (Latvia), Anita Celma (Latvia), Walgraffe Colette (Belgium), Zinaida Irutė Dargienė (Lithuania), Vladas Daškevičius (Lithuania), Milda Dulkytė (Lithuania), Marija Dūdienė (Lithuania), Gizela Eder (Germany), Martynas Gediminas (Lithuania), Laimutė Ona Gudaitienė (Lithuania), Elona Gutauskaitė – Linkevičienė (Lithuania), Feliksas Jakubauskas (Lithuania), Laima Marija Janulienė (Lithuania), Lilija Eugenija Jesiūnaitė (Lithuania), Eglė Jasulaitytė (Lithuania), Žilvinas Jonutis (Lithuania), Vytautas Jurevičius (Lithuania), Greta Kardišiūtė (Lithuania), Virginija Karvelienė (Lithuania), Liucija Jūratė Kryževičienė (Lithuania), Bronislava Lapinskienė (Lithuania), Violeta Laužonytė (Lithuania), Skaidrite Leimane (Latvia), Daiva Leončikienė (Lithuania), Mina Levitan – Babinskienė (Lithuania), Rūta Teresė Luckienė (Lithuania), Giedrė Luckutė (Lithuania), Jonas Maldžiūnas (Lithuania), Ligita Marcinkevičiūtė (Lithuania), Gražina Martinkevičienė (Lithuania), Zita Mateika (Lithuania), Nuala McMulloch (England), Ina Minidiuženko (Lithuania), Genovaitė Motiejūnienė (Lithuania), Aina Muze (Latvia), Rūta Tarvydienė (Lithuania), Jonė Paulauskienė (Lithuania), Eglė Petraitytė – Talalienė (Lithuania), Baiba Ritere (Lithuania), Dovilė Rukšėnienė (Lithuania), Birutė Sarapienė (Lithuania), Genovaitė Kasnauskienė (Lithuania), Danutė Marija Selmistraitienė (Lithuania), Marijona Sinkevičienė (Lithuania), Danielius Sodeika (Lithuania), Inga Kažemekienė (Lithuania), Erika Stelmokienė (Lithuania), Genovaitė Ona Surgailienė (Lithuania), Ingrida Suna (Latvia), Jolanta Šmidtienė (Lithuania), Kristina Tamašauskaitė (Lithuania), Svajūnas Udrys (Lithuania), Jūratė Urbienė (Lithuania), Birutė Vaitiekūnienė (Lithuania), Danutė Valentaitė (Lithuania), Dzintra Vilks (Latvia), Zinaida Vogėlienė (Lithuania).

An art critic Raimonda Kogelyte Simanaitiene wrote about exhibition:
“LINE” of ’99 weighty intervenes the dispersion of textile days in Kaunas and continues the idea of the international textile event that took place in ’97.
We can draw a line in different ways: straight line – to mark the direction of an endless action; light stroke – when we follow the “from…to” criteria; winding line – to mark an enigmatic flow of time; short segment – to emphasize a meaningful period and also in many other possible variants bearing semantic senses of the line in our minds.
There’s no discussion concerning the significance of the line in plastic decorative art: it is the expression of a pliant form silhouette as well as one of the oldest ornaments used for decoration, also one of the elements of artistic expression.
The line might be treated as an essential, fundamental quality and basis of a handicraft. This can be seen in textile where the idea of a thread is associated with endless straight line, whereas the wrap of the fabric – with the net uneasily parted by lines.”