{"id":16622,"date":"2026-08-26T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/?post_type=ka_pamatyti&p=16622"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:02:15","slug":"ecce-homo-v-vildziunas-1983","status":"publish","type":"ka_pamatyti","link":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/what-to-see\/ecce-homo-v-vildziunas-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"ECCE HOMO. V. Vild\u017ei\u016bnas. 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sculpture quietly sings a partisan song:
If not for the golden summers \/ Nor blue cornflowers \/ We would not have come here \/ Where grey days drift \/ We would not have come here \/ Where grey days drift \/ <\/i><\/em>
Passer-by:<\/p>\n

– I hear a song my grandmother loved to sing. Why does it sound beside a sculpture whose title is written in Latin \u2013 \u201cEcce homo\u201d? What do these words mean?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sculpture:
– <\/i><\/em>Ecce homo<\/i><\/em>, Pontius Pilate said to the gathered crowd, pointing to Jesus crowned with thorns. Translated from Latin, Ecce homo<\/i><\/em> means \u201cBehold the man\u201d.
Passer-by:<\/p>\n

– My ten-year-old son said you look like a football team captain calling his mummy because he wants to complain about his aching leg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sculpture:<\/p>\n

– I should not say your son is wrong. But since I know something interesting about my own birth, I will tell you about it.
Sculptor Vladas Vild\u017ei\u016bnas, who lived in Vilnius, was inspired to create a sculpture called \u201cEcce homo\u201d by a performance of the same name by Latvian mime artist Modris Tenisons. Vild\u017ei\u016bnas admired Tenisons\u2019s intellectual creativity and his attempt to explain the meaning of human suffering.
Vild\u017ei\u016bnas created as many as three \u201cEcce homo\u201d sculptures. He carved the first at a symposium in Vill\u00e1ny, Hungary, in 1972. In Klaip\u0117da he repeated the same form, only twice as large. In Vilnius he cast two small bronze \u201cEcce homo\u201d sculptures \u2013 one was acquired by a collector in America, while the other adorns the Vild\u017ei\u016bnas family home in Vilnius\u2019s Jeruzal\u0117 district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Passer-by:<\/p>\n

– Now I can see that the person before me is not a football team captain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If not for the golden summers \/ Nor blue cornflowers \/ We would not have come here \/ Where grey days drift \/ We would not have come here \/ Where grey days drift \/<\/i><\/em><\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sculpture quietly sings a partisan song:If not for the golden summers \/ Nor blue cornflowers \/ We would not have come here \/ Where grey days drift \/ We would not have come here \/ Where grey days drift \/ Passer-by: – I hear a song my grandmother loved to sing. Why does it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13266,"template":"","lankytinu_lokacijos":[],"lankytinu_tipai":[435],"class_list":["post-16622","ka_pamatyti","type-ka_pamatyti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","lankytinu_tipai-talking-sculptures-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ka_pamatyti\/16622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ka_pamatyti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ka_pamatyti"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lankytinu_lokacijos","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lankytinu_lokacijos?post=16622"},{"taxonomy":"lankytinu_tipai","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lankytinu_tipai?post=16622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}