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2008, oil on gessoed board, 15×15 cm

Another of the bee farm views from my trip.

Jetted through top galleries in Kyiv. Bit of a failure at start - Kollektsiya gallery sublet their space to some soap film crew. Next stop RA gallery featured some Latin American artists in main room as well as plethora of new art by established locals in the back (Kavsan’s pseudo Dutch still life). Their Thursday night opening features new photos by two Georgian photographers Irakli Dzneladze ans Amiko Kavtaradze. Since last visit, I learned that RA art and photo schools are growing up with even more classes and subjects to offer, feeding the need of their graduates for new and updated. In about a month a city wide Kievfotocom festival will bring tons of vry good international photography.

KyivFineArt propsed a semi realistic paintings of oil, sea, sand nudes by Elena and Tatyana Polyaschenko. The impression is - semi professional take on modern art.

Soviart and Karas galleries offered more impressive photo realism canvases and a special Soap project worth a look. Karas’ next big project China forever promises to be equally interesting.

Zeh initiated Samozahvat project, this time housed on a construction side on Borychiv tik 23a and presented an  array of Ukrainian modern greats. Except for Solomko’s light box, a nice installation sculpture and canvas by  Vasiliy Tsagolov.

And finally Gudimov’s Sumish installatin of antique decorative art and some modern art by Tistol, Vlada ralko and others creats a nice genretal impression.

I wanted to go home after a few hours of it. Getting lost on the metro, ending up in Jamaica and then soaking wet under the chilly rain helped that a lot.  When over at the friends house just across the river in Queens, the magnificent view of Manhattan helped put things in perspective though.

Temo Svirely, image from http://www.svirely.com

Illya Isupov (currently at Zeh)

Pikul, currently at Zeh

I forgot the name of this artist, also at Zeh

Thank you everyone who came to my presentation. Here are the slides I’ve used today:

Also here’s the map of the Kyiv galleries that we distributed during the meeting for you to print. Please, leave a comment below if you have any follow up questions on the presentations or just want to say hello.

Don’t forget to come to my art show on April 4th, here are the directions and a flier that’s also in this months’ IWCK newsletter. Cheers,

Went down Andriyivsky and to Podil to see the galleries concentrated around there. Lot’s of fun and great art to see, as usual.  It seems that as much as the Ukrainians try their hand in conceptual and abstract art, our lot prefers the classical stuff:

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Greetings from Lviv - we are celebrating the catholic Christmas here this year. The local Green Sofa gallery set the perfect mood for this with great selection of local greats:

Olha Pylnyk’s ceramic Christmas tree / candle holder:

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The Carpathians on Christmas by Mykhailo Demtsiu (who recently has had a solo show at the Triptych gallery);

and a little shepherd from children’s book illustration by Olha Kwasha:

Last night the RA gallery (Andriy and Nataliya) hosted a party with a show of IWCK recent artwork. This is our first semester at RA, and the group has never been so big and regular. Both, the gallery and students love the new setup. On the picture - the new instructor Aleksey Malykh with student pictures.

Nov. 13, 7:30 pm

PinchukArtCentre presents the lecture of the Japanese art critic and curator Akiko Miki, who will talk about the last ten years’ development in Japanese contemporary art and the impact of Takashi Murakami’s works on the new generation of artists. Selected videos by Takashi Murakami and young Japanese artists will be represented during the presentation – including a.o Koki Tanaka, Zon Ito and Ryoko Aoki, Hiraki Sawa, Meiwa Denki and Aya Tanako.

From PinchukArtCentre Webstite

Illia Chichkan and Roda Design Lab opens a show called “Kitchen, as Art” on Thursday 15th, 7 pm, at the Arsenal (28, Sichnevogo Povstannya).

Current must-see exhibit in Kyiv is second annual Art-Kyiv 2007. 52 galleries exhibit on five floors of the Ukrainian House on European square (2, Khreshchatyk) opening today, runs till 10 November. I hear you can purchase a Marc Chagall there as well as artwork from 500 other Ukrainian artists, old and contemporary.

Mystetskyi Arsenal gallery (28 Sichnevogo Povstannya) opens a show tonight by Volodymyr Kozhuhar named “Lis”. Come buy there at 7 pm

Besides the current Pinchuk exhibit a few other spaces put out interesting shows to see:

1. Mystetskyi Arsenal - 28 Sichnevogo Povstannya st., - Zhanna Kadyrova and Alisa Nikitova, murals and paintings about construction workers.

Image from Liliya Tymoshenko at the Arsenal

2. KyivFotoCom that I wrote about a few days back is still going on. Here’s the schedule:

Jorge Saenz/ Argentina (Broken Ranks) 12.09-24.10.07 at Soviart: 22а Andriyivsky desent; master-class by Glyadelov on 13.10.07 12:00

Elaine Ling/ Canada (Cuba chronicles) 13-24.10.07 FOundation for Promotion of Arts Development, 1/6 Frolivska, master-class on 14.10.07 14:00

Segei Mikhalchuk/Ukraine «!Hasta Siempre, Cuba!» 14.10.-28.10.07
RA Gallery: 32 B Khmelnytskogo, master-class: 15.10.07 19:00

3. People say something whorthwhile is going on at the Triptych gallery but I can’t get the info pulled up from their website - it’s down.

4. Aleksei Malykh has his exhibit opening at the White Gallery 34B Andriyivsky descent on 26 October at 7 pm.