Sigita Daugule

Since the 1990s, Sigita Daugule has consistently and convincingly stuck to painting, balancing between abstract forms and textural experimentation and paintings saturated with specific city walls and cultural-historical references. The theme of walls arises naturally from the nature of Daugule’s painting, in which everything – the interaction of the colour layers, various time effects, craquelure and deliberate surface damage – serve the artist as refined means of expression.

Daugule continues diligently working on the large format oil painting “The Rabbit Runs” focussing on the aestheticization of the surface by consciously using a limited grey and black palette. The brutal appearance of this monumental painting is enhanced by the artist with Palaeolithic handprints and a frightening drawing of a rabbit. Despite the naïve, schematic graphic style, the gigantic, red-eyed rabbit is more akin to a nightmarish monster than a child’s drawing. The artist says that it grew out of Alice’s rabbit companion in Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. However, few would want to fall into this rabbit hole after viewing the hypnotic, five-metre-tall creature in the painting. 

The Rabbit Runs. 2020.