Fresh fruit from the village
oil on canvas board; 18×24 cm, 2008, private collection
This lady along with many others commute up to Kyiv to sell what her garden produced during the summer for some extra cash. Usually this produce is the freshest and best quality in the market, but one needs to spend more time finding the right “babushka” with the necessary stuff. The kiosks that I’ve been dwelling on recently are an easier target to find (and paint, xo).
Great news, beautiful MindtheGap and LittleMissMoi are taking in their hands the organization of my exhibit at the end of March! Updates are coming soon.
Another interesting artist Alika Cooper is putting out figurative paintings of mobile homes and American devoshkas.
Did I talk enough here about Yuri Solomko? He represented Ukraine at Venice biennale and is most famous for his paintings on maps. Yet have to go see what he came up with for the decoration of the new Hyatt hotel in Kyiv. I hear he put out by himself hundreds of paintings to decorate each and every room in the hotel.
Tags: fruit, Kyiv, painting, post-Soviet, produce, selling stuff, ukraine, village, winter
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