Buy drawings and help our troops

The charity exhibition and sale of drawings from the 1990s, kept in the collection of the Ukrainian Independent Contemporary Art Center, will take place on the margins of the Publishers’ Forum to be held in Lviv from September 11 through 14, aiming to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The idea of this exhibition occurred to director, screenwriter, producer, freelance artist and curator of contemporary art Ihor Podolchak. He told The Day that the idea of this exhibition appeared “quite naturally, due to Ukraine’s circumstances and the current needs of its armed forces.”

According to Podolchak, the Ukrainian Independent Contemporary Art Center held a lot of exhibitions in the late 1990s, including two major international biennials of graphic arts, and artists who took part in exhibitions donated their works to the center. Thus, Podolchak told us, “The center has accumulated quite a few drawings from around the world.”

The exhibition on the margins of the Publishers’ Forum is the first of a planned series to be held for the Ukrainian army. It will feature 34 works by authors from Poland, Israel, Canada, Australia, the US, Argentina, Japan, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Uruguay, and Serbia, which can be seen and selected   via an electronical directory (http://issuu.com/podolchak/docs/fv_catalog_1). Their prices and reservation information can be found on Podolchak’s Facebook page. Podolchak has also been appealing via Den to volunteers who organize similar projects with a request to contact him and allow him to permanently donate works from the collection of the Ukrainian Independent Contemporary Art Center, which has literally hundreds of them.

The exhibition “Aid for the Armed Forces of Ukraine” will be housed at the Lviv Palace of Arts in 17 Kopernyk Street.