{"title":"Jurgis Mačiūnas (George Maciunas)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"55\" data-end=\"194\"\u003eJurgis Mačiūnas (George Maciunas, 1931, Lithuania – 1978, USA) was a Lithuanian-born artist and one of the founders of the Fluxus movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"196\" data-end=\"485\"\u003eHis childhood unfolded in the already fairly modernized Kaunas of the 1930s. From 1938 to 1942 he attended Marija Pečkauskaitė Primary School, later continuing at Aušra Boys’ Gymnasium. In 1944, he fled to Germany with his parents, where he attended a Lithuanian gymnasium for three years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"487\" data-end=\"917\"\u003eIn 1948, he moved to the United States. Between 1949 and 1952, he studied art history, graphic design, and architecture at the Cooper Union in New York. In 1954, he received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. From 1955 to 1960, he continued his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, focusing on the art and culture of European and Siberian peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"919\" data-end=\"1512\"\u003eIn 1960, together with Almus Šalčius, he opened the AG Gallery at 925 Madison Avenue in New York (named after the initials of the founders). The gallery was intended as a space for lectures, action concerts, and screenings of non-commercial, poetic, and experimental films. Maciunas wrote manifestos, organized concerts, published and designed Fluxus anthologies and periodicals, and created happenings, actions, performances, conceptual images, objects, and humorous musical and literary works aimed against “pure” professional art. It was in the AG Gallery that the Fluxus movement was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1847\"\u003eFluxus emerged as a разрушing force against “bourgeois” aesthetics and formalism, opposing academicism in art. Its aim to challenge traditional fine art and critique the artwork as a self-contained value was pursued through short, concrete forms, minimalist music, provocative actions, conceptual “event scores,” and ambiguous humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"2001\"\u003eFluxus strongly influenced—or even directly initiated—conceptual art, mail art, political art, mass culture, minimalism, new music, and performance art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2003\" data-end=\"2451\"\u003eMaciunas believed that the Fluxus movement should temporarily serve a pedagogical function: to demonstrate that anything can become art, that art is accessible to everyone and created by all, and that it should not be defined by commercial or institutional value. In his view, art should be simple, natural, playful, joyful, and unpretentious. He also argued that the movement itself would eventually become unnecessary and should not last forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2453\" data-end=\"2597\"\u003eMaciunas died at the age of 46 from cancer. His funeral followed a script he had written himself—his ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2599\" data-end=\"3103\"\u003eThe Vilnius municipality acquired the entire Maciunas collection for 5 million US dollars—around 2,600 items. In June 2006, the first part of the collection was brought to Vilnius. It includes works related to Film-Makers’ Cinematheque, the magazine Film Culture, Jonas Mekas’s projects, as well as significant works and documentation connected to the development of the SoHo district, and materials from Maciunas’s private life. The collection is housed at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3105\" data-end=\"3293\"\u003ePrepared based on information provided by the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art and sources from the Research and Encyclopedia Publishing Centre of the National Library of Lithuania.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jurgis-maciunas-br-face-anatomy-mask-c-1973-br-ofsetine-litografija-ant-popieriaus-24-8x21-6","title":"Jurgis Mačiūnas | Face Anatomy Mask, c. 1973 | Offset lithography on paper, 24.8x21.6 (38.3x35.3)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the copies of this artwork is part of the MoMA collection (gift to the museum, Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, 2008). Number: 2537.2008.x1-x63\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Maciunas. Face Anatomy Mask. c. 1973 | MoMA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work by \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Maciunas\u003c\/strong\u003e was intended to be part of Fluxpack 3 (yearbox) from 1973-75. The planned edition of 1000 copies was never released, so only individual prototypes of the work remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contents of Fluxpack 3 are documented in the catalog of the exhibition \"Fluxus: selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection\" (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988) (page 50 in the catalog; page 63 in the PDF file, item No. 46).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFluxus : selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection (moma.org)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Maciunas\u003c\/strong\u003e (1931-1978) - one of the most famous Lithuanian artists in the world, the founder of the Fluxus movement. Museum author. 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The planned edition of 1000 copies was never released, thus only individual prototypes of the artwork remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe catalog of the exhibition \"Fluxus: selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection\" (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988) records the entire contents of the third Fluxus box (on page 50 of the printed catalog; page 63 of the PDF file, item No. 46).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/documents\/moma_catalogue_2141_300103273.pdf#page=63\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/documents\/moma_catalogue_2141_300103273.pdf#page=63\"\u003eFluxus : selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection (moma.org)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJurgis Mačiūnas\u003c\/strong\u003e (1931-1978) - one of the most prominent Lithuanian artists in the world, the founder of the Fluxus movement. A museum author. 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Number: 2524.2008.x1-x61.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/128172\"\u003eGeorge Maciunas. Apron (Stomach Anatomy Apron). 1973 | MoMA\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis artwork by Jurgis Mačiūnas (George Maciunas) was intended to become part of Fluxpack 3 (yearbox) of the 3rd Fluxus year. The planned edition of 1000 units was never released, hence only individual prototypes of the artwork remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe entire contents of Fluxpack 3 are documented in the exhibition catalog \"Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection\" (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/documents\/moma_catalogue_2141_300103273.pdf#page=63\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/documents\/moma_catalogue_2141_300103273.pdf#page=63\"\u003eFluxus : selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection (moma.org)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJurgis Mačiūnas (1931-1978) - one of the most prominent Lithuanian artists in the world, the founder of the Fluxus movement. A museum author. 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