You see a collection of early sketches by the sculptor Mindaugas Navakas, conceived as an author's book. They were made in pre-computer age, using the photomontage technique. Wandering the streets of Vilnius, Navakas felt attracted by the space of the town. Still unable to create real projects for these locations, he simply photographed the spots that caught his eye, different structures of historical and contemporary architecture. Back in his studio, he looked at his photographs, and created site-specific models for sculptures. These pieces struck an ironic and postmodern note. Afterwards, he photographed his models, cut the pictures into pieces, and pasted the pieces into a collage on the picture of the site of interest to him. Finally, he retouched the image he had produced. With help from his friends, these images reached the printing presses, and, just like the pages of the dailiesKomjaunimo tiesa(Komsomol Truth) andTiesa(The Truth), they went through the process of being etched on zincographic plates. These plates were then used to make prints, and eventually bound in the firstVilnius Notebook.

The prints were first presented to the public as a solo show by the artist in 1986, held at the Architects Union of the Soviet Republic of Lithuania. However, the exhibition only survived for an hour. His impudent postmodern dialogue with state-owned buildings in the town scandalised the watchdogs of artistic morality. It is no surprise at all that an era that was marked by statues of Lenin could not tolerate a strange vase on top of the roof of the Opera House, a pig in the shape of a potato dumpling being rammed into the Lietuva Hotel (which was specially for foreign visitors), or the one and only department store in the town being capped by a salt cellar. Interestingly, the artist has subsequently realised most of the projects in hisVilnius Notebook. Some of them were cast in bronze as exhibition pieces. One,A Symmetrical Four-Legged Creature(1981), is on display in Hall 9. Others were realised during the Smiltynė Granite Symposium, or made into sculptural objects for public spaces outside Vilnius.