Adresas: Konstitucijos pr. 22, LT–08105, Vilnius. Tel.  +370 5 212 2997, + 370 5  212 888, faksas +370 5 2122888, el. paštas info[at]ndg.lt. Svetainė internete – http://www.ndg.lt   ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION "THE ORPHANS" 5 November, 2010 – 9 January, 2011   Sketches of the Church of the Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis. Author Gediminas Baravykas The architecture exhibition “The Orphans” presenting the creative heritage of distinguished Lithuanian architects Gediminas Baravykas, Algimantas Alekna, Žvaigždras Drėma, Gintautas Likša, Gytis Ramunis, Saulius Šarkinas, Henrikas Šilgalis and Gintautas Telksnys will be opened in Vilnius, at the National Gallery of Art (Konstitucijos Ave. 22) on the 5th of November at 6 p.m. L.Vaitys: "The title “The Orphans” does not define some group of architects following similar principles of creation. However, it is suitable for the generation which, luckily or unluckily, happened to be born in a certain period of time. Could we feel orphans at the age of thirty or forty? Rarely. How could we be unhappy in youth? Sometimes, of course, we could. When we realised the limits of possibilities determined by the environment. Getting to know the world better, we understood what prohibitions, suspicions and restrictions meant. We looked at the West with envy. Despite the real and true service to our profession, technical and financial possibilities determined our fate of outsiders. We valued competitions, especially international ones. They were important not only to us but to the development of architecture of entire Lithuania. Having no possibility to create technically complicated, futuristic objects, we could undertake complicated tasks with more courage in the stage of sketches and drawings. The idea of the exposition is not the retrospective of works of “the orphans” but the disclosure of mysterious process of search for ideas in sketches, drawings and outlines. Surely, the architects presented in the exhibition were not similar. Not all of them were “individualists”, some of them worked in “teams”, in which work was shared. Other architects were already caught by the virus of computerisation. However, all of them were maximalists, therefore, orphans and masters at the same time.”