The image of a man who, thanks to his so-called “business qualities”, quickly grew rich and was at the top of the social pyramid and gained a lot of opportunities, but at the same time did not have time (or perhaps did not consider it necessary) to tighten his cultural and intellectual level to the …
Category: Art
Ivan Marchuk – the Ukrainian genius of our time
Ivan Marchuk from the generation of the 80’s. Soviet Union is known by increased dictatorship of the communist regime before its agony at the end of the 1970s, the beginning of the 1980s. The talented young artist Ivan Marchuk was forced to leave for America in those years, since he was not recognized in his …
Fripulla is a representative of the Soviet underground of the 70’s
Fripulya – so Ukrainian artist Fedir Tetyanich called himself. This is an artist and a philosopher. He can be called a representative of space techno-romanticism. His famous work is the biotechnosphere, the habitation of the future, which he created from the secondary raw material. The artist is one of the first well-known art performer artists. …
Plain landscapes of Yurko Dyachyshyn “TerraGalicia”
A photographer from Lviv Yurko Dyachyshin made a new series “TerraGalicia” in 2017. These are photographs of agricultural fields in Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk regions. The photographer says that the theme of landscapes is new in his work. Smooth, calm lines of planting, large flat areas are calming. The photographer himself felt a therapeutic effect. Yurko …
Personal exhibition of Nazar Bilyk “Imaginary distances”
Nazar Bilyk is one of the most famous sculptors in Ukraine. His early work is related to the experiments with negative space. His most recognizable work “Rain” is situated on the Landscape Alley in Kiev. The exhibition “Imaginative distances” has been held at the Kyiv Art Gallery this month. This is the first personal exhibition …
What can I draw with a ballpoint pen?
What can I draw with a ballpoint pen? The answer to this question you can find in the gallery “Karas” (Kiev) until January 22, 2018. This exhibition project is called “A4, Ballpoint / Кулькова / Шариковая ручка”. The idea is that anyone can create their own drawing on an A4 sheet, but only with a …
Design Week in Eindhoven (21-29, 2017). The seven most successful Ukrainian brands on DDW 2017
The annual presentation of design projects in the Dutch city of Eindhoven has identified three main trends in 2017: digitalization, the revival of folk crafts, and robots and man. Thus, the design also goes into virtual reality: the design of smart devices, human robots. Ukraine in 2017 declared itself quite actively. Ukrainian designers successfully presented …
December 15 in the National Art Museum in Kiev, opened an exhibition project “City of HA. Kharkov Avant-garde: Project-research »
The exposition of the project took three exhibition halls of the museum. It is based on about a hundred works from twenty-five different authors working in completely different styles and techniques from classical to modern. The range of works extends from the classic picture to photography and video art. The program of the project includes …
Colorful earth and natural space in the ceramics of Yuri Musatov
The created ceramic figures of Yuri Musatov “breathe” with the potential creative capacity of the earth, trees, and mountains. The objects recreate the material, which gives a boost to the imagination, for the act of human creativity. One of the leitmotifs of the Ukrainian ceramist is the creation of a space similar to the natural …
Julia Mokhovikova – expression first of all
Julia Mokhovikova was born and grew up in Kiev. She obtained higher artistic education in the school of painting Cours Prive MJM in Nice. The artist works are in the style of neo-expressionism with her own individual handwriting. Over the past few years, she traveled the world in search of inspiration, wrote pictures and participated …