Cultural highlights of Šiauliai - at Vilmantas Dambrauskas exhibition "My City Posters"

In 2023 of July 28th at 5 p.m. The anniversary exhibition of Vilmantas Dambrauskas, a designer from Šiauliai, will be opened in the observation building of "Prisikėlimas" Square and the album "My City Posters" will be presented. This year, the artist and photographer is giving the townspeople the opportunity to see his best works created over more than three decades. It is expected that the exhibition will decorate not only the observatory building located in the main city square, but also transport visitors to the moments of the events depicted on the posters.
The organizer – Šiauliai Cultural Center. The event is free.

Vilmantas Dambrauskas – an artist known throughout Lithuania. After starting his creative path, the designer had the freedom to experiment and create what over time became not only modern visions of the future, but also cultural heritage. During his more than thirty years of career, the artist from Šiauliai has created an innumerable number of logos, posters, presented more than 40 design, painting, photography and poster exhibitions to the public, and his works have been exhibited in Lithuania, Europe and the United States of America.

"This year, I am presenting my anniversary exhibition to the residents of Šiauliai and city guests. I hope that the images seen on the posters will evoke not only the most beautiful sentiments, but will also remind us of how many events, holidays or other colorful events there were in Šiauliai, which created and cultivated the aesthetic taste and cultural awareness of each of us. I am glad that I could contribute to the face of the city's events with my work," says Vilmantas Dambrauskas, who works as a designer at the Šiauliai Cultural Center.

The exhibition "Posters of my city" will exhibit both the first works created since 1989, as well as the latest posters of the artist, reflecting today's current affairs. The creator's exceptional freedom in interpretation, courage in combining new images, fonts and colors left a clear mark not only in Šiauliai's advertising campaigns, but also became recognizable throughout Lithuania.

"For the past few years, the Šiauliai Cultural Center, while creating the image of the city's holidays, has been spreading the idea that every person has the power to create a more modern world, Lithuania, Šiauliai city. The designer of more than one city festival - Vilmantas Dambrauskas - looks at Šiauliai through the prism of his creator as an expert on the city's identity. I am glad that the cooperation between the Šiauliai Cultural Center and the designer is becoming a reflection of the city's strategy in creating the image of the holidays," says Deimantė Bačiulė, director of the Šiauliai Cultural Center.

On July 28th, in the observation building of "Prisikėlimas" Square, it will be possible to see not only the posters exhibited by Vilmantas Dambrauskas, but also to participate in the presentation of his recently released, latest album "Mano miesto plakatai". The eighth book contains posters created by the designer from 1989 to the present day. The album depicts works created for various festivals, exhibitions, concerts or performances in the city of Šiauliai, as well as people who have had the opportunity to work with the designer or are still working together and are looking for original advertising discoveries.

The anniversary exhibition "My City Posters" will be opened until 2023 October 1st. The exposition in the observation building of "Prisikėlimas" Square can be seen from Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 22:00 o'clock.

The information is provided by Vaida Dambrauskienė, head of the Education Department of the Šiauliai Cultural Center, mobile. +370 678 53 171, e-mail vaida.dambrauskiene@siauliukc.lt.

Vaida Dambrauskienė's photo.