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INTRODUCTION
Today, with the re-emergence of an independent Ukraine, the cultural-artistic process looks more
clearly like a rebirth. More often the world hears Ukrainian words and music, more often to the peoples of
other countries the art of Ukrainian painting, graphics and sculpture speaks in its universal language.
Ukrainians, dispersed throughout the world, separated through the ages by empires, are uniting today in their
eternal love for the land of their forebears. They help their nation, relegated to the backroads of history, to
occupy again a place in the community of free nations, a place worthy of Ukraine's glorious past.
Amongst numerous Ukrainians in the diaspora, a respected Ukrainian family in the U.S.A.- Halyna
and Olexij Woskobijnyk [Woskob] - play more than an average role in the process of the Ukrainian cultural rebirth.
They are well known due to their charitable activity in Ukraine in the fields of science, manufacturing and
publishing.
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Ivan Baldukha, The Crucifixion of Jesus, oil on canvas
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An important and interesting aspect in promoting culture and art in Ukraine and abroad is the
Woskobijnyks' collection of more than five hundred works of Ukrainian artists of the twentieth century. The
uniqueness of the Woskobijnyks' collection, considering its stylistic diversity, is the Ukrainian direction of its
content and its form of expression.
Although the collection includes works of world-renowned masters, the emphasis is on works of
young artists whose talents during today's economic difficulties in Ukraine require moral and especially
material support. Thus this collection promotes the young art of Ukraine.
The Woskobijnyk [Woskob] family collection has over time grown from a considerable assembly of
contemporary artistic Ukrainiana into an important nucleus of Ukrainian
spiritually, culture and art in America.
This was accomplished simply because the collection's proprietors are people of action, people who
are inspired by the idea of the development and integrity of the Ukrainian culture. They are people who
desire for Ukraine to establish a good name for herself within the
international community, and people who at the same time work hard to nurture the identity which the
Ukrainian community has established for itself in the diaspora.
This is the goal of the exhibit of original works of Ukrainian artists, primarily of the late twentieth
century, from the private collection of the Woskobijnyk [Woskob] family, respected citizens of the U.S.A., patriots of
Ukraine, who have dedicated their lives to the causes of goodness, spirituality and beauty on this Earth.
May the open doors of this unique exhibit and the open hearts of its organizers bestow upon its
visitors a feeling of community with the world of Ukrainian art - an art
which reflects the dreams, joys and tribulations of the Ukrainian people.
Vasyl Perevalsky,
Distinguished Artist of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv Union of Artists
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