{"id":2668,"date":"2022-02-09T21:55:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2022-02-09T21:55:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:55:52","slug":"the-stay-of-an-exclusive-guest-a-genius-of-contemporary-art-in-panevezys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/2022\/02\/09\/the-stay-of-an-exclusive-guest-a-genius-of-contemporary-art-in-panevezys\/","title":{"rendered":"The stay of an exclusive guest &#8211; a genius of contemporary art &#8211; in Panev\u0117\u017eys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 26, 2022, William Kentridge-Gefen, a genius of contemporary art from South Africa and his wife visited the Jewish community of Panev\u0117\u017eys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955, the artist with Litvak roots has been known and honored in the arts for many decades, and his works have visited the world&#8217;s most important galleries and become part of large collections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the guest, his ancestors came from the cities of Panev\u0117\u017eys and Utena &#8211; his great-grandfather Gefen was born and raised in the capital of Auk\u0161taitija, and went to South America during the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the archives of the Panev\u0117\u017eys community, the guest viewed photos of buildings built by Jews before World War II. He also visited memorable Jewish heritage sites in the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When leaving, William Kentridge-Gefen assured that Panev\u0117\u017eys, like Lithuania, had left a very warm impression on him and he would always remember this trip.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2670\" src=\"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/files\/2022\/02\/15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"494\" data-id=\"2670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/files\/2022\/02\/15.jpg 642w, https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/files\/2022\/02\/15-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 26, 2022, William Kentridge-Gefen, a genius of contemporary art from South Africa and his wife visited the Jewish community of Panev\u0117\u017eys. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/2022\/02\/09\/the-stay-of-an-exclusive-guest-a-genius-of-contemporary-art-in-panevezys\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}