Kiosks for bread, milk, fruit, etc.
15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection
… people line up at the street kiosks - an alternative of corner street shops that could not sustain in Kyiv with its recent hyper-development. The kiosks specialize really narrowly (since they are so small) - bread, milk, or fruits only - and they usually cluster together on busy residential corners in Kyiv. This one is the closest to me - on top of Vorovskogo st., nearby Lvivska square. The fruit seller stall I painted the other day is just across the street from here.
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Aleksei told me today about an awesome Kyiv artist Maksim Mamsikow, who does similar small paintings of daily life and race cars. RA gallery has a few of his pieces for sale.
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February 8th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
hi olechko, these are fantastic! do you sell any of them?
February 8th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
sure! We are even organizing an exhibit so that this artwork can go on sale there! Sarah is the master planner and Brook is in charge of catering for the event. I wish you could come (in March sometime). Meanwhile I am toying with an idea of setting up some kind of paypal or ebay thing here..
February 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Wow! Got linked to this through Global Voices Online and it just floored me! You are awesome.
February 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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