Recycled Colours is J. Tarabilda’s seventh solo exhibition, and the works are made using paint leftovers accumulated in the artist’s studio over the last few years, painting on canvas. However, the artist proposes not to call them paintings, adding that the only visible evidence of the artist’s presence is the application of paint with a brush.

As art critic Rosana Lukauskaitė writes in the exhibition’s annotation, J. Tarabilda’s latest exhibition Recycled Colours invites us to consider his work as a constantly renewing source of energy and explores how recycling can make both ecological and aesthetic sense.

“The question arises whether works similar to color palettes are just reverse reflections of the artwork, or whether they can also become art objects in their own right, with their own meaning and value. This notion of ambiguity creates an interaction between the artwork and the viewer, emphasizing the subjectivity and diversity of art,” says the art critic. “The artist who chooses to question our own fantasy and treatment of the supremacy of art gives new meaning to the leftovers of paint, and what at first appeared to be a simple experiment in color becomes a philosophical metaphor for the limits and possibilities of art, allowing us to explore the essence of art, the process of art-making, and the value of artistic experience.”