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I had the pleasure of surveying the five floors of the Ukrainski Dim today with the Art-Kyiv fair in it’s last day.

Out of advertised “five floors” I really just found two of notice. On the first floor there was some classic Ukrainian paintings from 50′s and 60′s, including Petrynenko…

My favoarite Kyiv RA gallery showed off its style by exhibiting just one artist in its main booth. The artsits’s style was a mix of drawing and painting – very moody and interesting.

The best Lviv establishment – the Green Sofa gallery has represented several artists, Olga Pylnyk among them sold particuarly well. She has had a smashing exhibit at the Green Sofa in Lviv and now came to charm the kievites.

A quirky Parsuna gallery, that puts out only puppets, showed its best at the fair. I genrally find puppets very eerie but these are so fanstatic; things like this were represented in the fair:

The White gallery, a new place on Andriyivsky Uzviz 34B (entrance though the archway), has showed Vladislav Shereshevsky, and that was great! I noted his stuff on this blogt before, now his humburger thing below is even more exiting.

One Ukrainian peculiarity fo this fair is that it was treated like a bazaar – a buyer chose a piece, paid for it, picked it up and walked with it home – no red dots (expecept for one well-respected gallery) by the sold items on the walls, that stay there till the end of the exhibit. So the show was updated every day with new pieces to substitute the sold ones.

My favorite of the show was Oxana Mas – a special project she uses her “secret” tecnique that make her canvas glossy and dashing looking – very prolific artist she is.

There were suprisigly many paintings of Venice landscapes -a bit cheesy to my taste, expect for many the atrists that did them (about four or five – each per floor, I swear) had expressed a secret disite to represent Ukraine in Venice biennale (there are better ways to express that desire).

And finally, I was surprised to see the big players Zeh, Kyiv fine art and Bereznitsky gallery not respresented there.

Tags: Kyiv

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