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National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 10, 2003
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Kyiv, Ukraine.......The National Art Museum of Ukraine and The Foundation
for International Arts and Education (USA) signed an agreement on June 10,
2003 regarding the Joint Project "Ukrainian Modernism 1910-1930.
The participants in the singing of the agreement were: Anatoly Melnik,
General Director of the National Art Museum of Ukraine; Greg Guroff,
President of the Foundation for International Arts and Education; Nikita
Lobanov-Rostovsky, author of the idea, curator of the project, Board of
Directors, Foundation for International Arts and Education; Lubov
Nesterenko, Chief of the Department of Museums, Ministry of Art and
Culture; and Alexander Mazichenko, Acting Chief of the Culture and
Humanitarian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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Pictorial Realism of a
Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, Called Red Square by Kazimir Malevich, 1915
(AP)
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"Ukrainian Modernism. 1910-1930" is the first joint project of the National
Art Museum of Ukraine and the Foundation for International Arts and
Education (USA). Having extensive experience in organizing similar projects,
the Foundation approached the Museum with the proposal to present
Ukrainian art of the first third of the 20th century in America, so to speak
to "open" it to the American viewer.
Ukrainian avant-garde has been exhibited in Europe and Canada throughout
the last ten years. Current project differs in its composition from the
previous ones in its fuller presentation of the development of avant-garde
in Ukraine from the modern period to the transition period when socialist
realism became the ideologically confirmed form of art.
"Ukrainian Modernism. 1910-1930" - it is a major exhibition that consists of more than a 100 works (graphics and paintings) from the collections of the
National Art Museum of Ukraine, other leading museums, and from private
collections of Kiev and elsewhere It represents more than 30 artists, among
them such famous avant-garde artists as Kazimir Malevich, David Burliuk,
Alexandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin and other artists who worked mainly in
Ukraine - Alexander Bogomozov, Vasily Ermilov, Viktor Palmov, the artists
whose names are being recognized worldwide only now.
There will be paintings of Bienalle favorites in Venice in 1928 - 1930 -
Fedor Krichevski and Anatoly Petritski. The sensation of the exhibition can
become the paintings of Vsevold Maksimovich, who ended his life at the age
of 20, but had enough time to fulfill Berdsley's ideas of transforming book
covers into grandiose paintings.
It is hoped that the "Ukrainian Modernism, 1910- 1930" will be seen at the
end of 2004-2005 in a number of major American museums.
For a long time Ukrainian avant-garde art was looked at in the context of
the Russian avant-garde. During the last 10 years, in scholarly research of
Western and Ukrainian scholars, the Ukrainian avant-garde is interpreted as
a European phenomenon. The exhibition testifies to the interaction of the
Ukrainian art with European art process and with Russian culture and gives
an opportunity to note European and national peculiarities in Ukrainian art
in 1910-1930s.
NOTE: Information about the new exhibition "Ukrainian Modernism
1910-1930" was provided to www.ArtUkraine.com Information
Service (ARTUIS) by the Foundation for International Arts and
Education, which will be producing the exhibition in the United States.
The Foundation is now actively engaged in finding sponsors and
appropriate venues for the exhibition. ArtUkraine.com will be working
with the Foundation regarding this exciting new exhibit and assisting it in
finding the necessary sponsors.
The Foundation's President Greg Guroff said that the exhibition is truly
world class and will be the first exhibition in the US to highlight this
extraordinarily exciting period of artistic creativity.
It will be the first time that a major exhibition of modern Ukrainian art
will be shown in the States. The Foundation urges anyone interested in
helping to place the exhibition or in helping to find sponsors or in simply
obtaining more information about the exhibition to contact the Foundation
directly.
The Foundation for International Arts and Education
4630 Montgomery Ave., Suite 210, Bethesda Maryland 20815
Telephone 301-656-6102, Fax: 301-656-5703.
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