Kestutis Vasiliunas

Kestutis Vasiliunas - an artist, traveler and curator of the Artist's Book Exhibitions and International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius. 

Since 1993, Kestutis Vasiliunas, the head of Circle “Bokartas” organised more than 50 international artist’s book exhibitions, workshops, symposiums and lectures in Lithuania, Germany, Austria, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, France and U.S.A.

Artist’s book represents a conceptual book, which from the beginning to the end is created by an artist himself/herself. A book has a clearly expressed idea governing all its space. Using various artistic means an artist himself/herself creates image and text, binds the book. Artist’s book is an integral work of art, joining a word and image, principles of a traditional book and free art. Artist’s books represent ordinary paper-made books and books-objects made of various materials. Artist’s book is either one-copy book or a book of limited, it is numbered and signed by the artist.