People’s artists, transavantgardists, and neoabstractionists

An exhibit dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Ukrainian independence was opened yesterday at Ukrainian Home. As Den has already reported (see an interview with the organizers in No. 142-143 of August 12, 2011), it consists of two blocks. The first is an exposition of more than 200 works by the

People’s Artists of independent Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR, and the USSR. Among them are the oeuvres of Tetiana Yablonska, Mykola Hlushchenko, Yurii Zorko, Viktor Ryzhykh, Heorhii Yakutovych, Yevhen Volobuiev, Vilen Chekaniuk, and Tetiana Holembiievska. The exhibit has gathered the works of painting, graphics, and sculpture, in which the artists turn, one way or another, to the subject of Ukraine.

The second block is the modern art Project 21 which mirrors the development of art in independent Ukraine and the continuity of the painting tradition in Ukrainian art. The exposition displays works by the artists of several independent art schools, such as, first of all, transavantgardists (Oleh Holosiy, Oleksandr Roitburd, and Oleksandr Hnylytsky) and neoabstractionists (Anatolii Kryvolap, Oleh Zhyvotkov, and Tiberius Szilvasi).

The exhibit will be open for two weeks, until September 4.