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The artist couple Svajonė and Paulius Stanikas have their own particular list of roles they play, a certain artistic repertoire that they use masterfully, balancing between reincarnations of the classics and the invasion of the contemporary, tragedy and the grotesque, idealism and decadence. The artists’ work is influenced by two cities, Vilnius and Paris, the baroque and the gothic, the East and the West. They have a distinct commercial style, which is deliberately damped down by the dusk of romanticism (in the literal sense of the word and as an allusion to the historical style of art) and …