Exhibition of Ukrainian Avant-Garde art; Lectures

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

"Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930"
November 5, 2006 -- March 11, 2007
Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Street,
New York, NY.  Phone: (212) 228-0110.

 From the museum's press release:
 >>Featuring the best of high modernism from Ukraine, the exhibition  
includes more than 70 rarely seen works by 21 Ukrainian artists; each  
of the works is being shown for the first time in the United States.  
Examples from the Avant-Garde, Art Nouveau, Impressionism,  
Expressionism, Futurism and Constructivism movements are presented in  
a fresh, new light.

Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine includes the works of well known  
artists such as David Burliuk, Alexandra Exter, and Kazimir Malevich  
as well as those of many artists still unknown to American audiences.  
Although the former are commonly associated with the Russian Avant- 
Garde, one of the revelations emerging from the exhibition is that  
much of what has been regarded as Russian modernism was, in fact,  
incubated in Ukraine.

The works in the show range from huge oil canvases to graphic arts to  
theater and opera design.  The first impression is of an abundant use  
of color. Another striking aspect of the works is the way they mesh  
the past and the present, bowing to the influences of cultural  
traditions, but expressing them through modernism. The abstract works  
are rooted in the principles of Ukrainian folk art; they also  
resonate with Byzantine aesthetics, with medieval ecclesiastical art,  
and with the tensions inherent in classic 17th century Ukrainian  
Baroque.

[...] The works on exhibition are from the National Art Museum of  
Ukraine, the Theater Museum, and the Museum of Folk Art of Ukraine in  
Kyiv, the Art Museum of Dnipropetrovsk, and private collections. They  
were selected by Professor Dmytro Horbachov and Nikita Lobanov- 
Rostovsky, who are dedicated to preserving and disseminating  
knowledge about the Ukrainian Avant-Garde.

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Three lectures during the week of the opening of the exhibition:

Monday, November 6, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
Formula for the Ukrainian Avant-Garde — Europe + the Village (in  
Ukrainian)
Lecture by Prof. Dmytro Horbachov of Kyiv, authority on the avant- 
garde period in Ukraine, co-organizer of the exhibition, and  
contributing author to the exhibition catalogue. Prof. Horbachov will  
also present his newly published book “He and I Were Ukrainians:”  
Malevich and Ukraine.

Sunday, November 12, 2006, 2:00 p.m.
Lectures by two specialists in Ukrainian modernism – in art and in  
literature (presented in English)
Color and Its Dynamic in Ukrainian Modernist Painting
Lecture by Dr. Myroslava Mudrak, Prof. of Art History, Ohio State  
University, contributing author to the exhibition catalogue.

The Verbal and Visual Arts in Ukrainian Futurism
Lecture by Dr. Oleh Ilnytzkyj, Prof. of Ukrainian Language and  
Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, best known for his work  
on Ukrainian modernism and the avant-garde. <<
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submitted by
N. Pylypiuk (University of Alberta)

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