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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,

15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection

This one is for Little Miss Moi to remind her to fix her camera soon and take more beautiful pictures!

I am inspired today by the effortless technique of Vasily Tsagolov. He wouldn’t be one of the current greats though without his cool, sometimes violent subject matter.

Another fun painter at Postcard from Provence.

15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection

A very cool artist Diana Navarette came to my flickr page; I was happy to find out she makes great expressive portraits.

15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection
A few years ago I had an accident: fell down an escalator really bad, with passing out, ambulance, firefighters arriving, all that stuff. Of course ever since I developed a huge phobia about escalators, that is untill I arrived in Kyiv. The metro escalators here are monstrously long and super fast moving. My mom never minded and pushed me on one of these once all in tears but going down nevertheless. Since that I coutiously used the escalators, while stepping behind someone big and steardy looking (in case I decide to fall on them) and I still do this. But now I ride freely, make notes, take pcitures etc. That mom’s big push was a major break in the phobia and really helped in retrospecive.

Check out Masha Shubina’s devoushka paintings at Bereznytsky’s gallery.  Her braided backsides are really masterfully done. She made another cool devouska-related project a few years back – Dear Curator, check out the article.

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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A great mind behind the Global Tree has mentioned my blog in her/his Kyiv, Ukraine posting. I am way over my head about their concept to promote environmental sustainability though color associations. I will repost the Kyiv bit here with the author’s permission:

Contemporary Ukrainian Culture and Art
Ukrainian Music
Ecological project “Torba – prirodi (Bag for the Nature)”

The last project mentioned by Global Tree above is run by a Ukrainian indie band Kryhitka Zahes, that I recently blogged about.  A girl sitting nest to me at  their recent concert in Lviv got one of those torba-s, and it looked really cool from close-up.

Under the curatorship of Alexandr Glyadelov, 23 documentary photographers produced their photos in an analogue technique for the project “Insight. Ukrainian Black & White Photography XXI c.” It will evolve into an exhibit, a book and series of gallery talks. Here are some fine examples of the work presented:

Viktor Suvorov. Kyiv, 2003

Eduard Stranadko. Poltava, Panyanskiy Boulevard, 2005

The photos will be on show here:

Lviv: 26 march 2008 – 13 april 2008 “Dzyga” Gallery

Kyiv: 04 march 2008 – 16 march 2008 “Dim Mykoly” Gallery

Photos from www.blackandwhite.org.ua

Last night together with MindtheGap and the other good friends Igor Melnychuk studio. Igor is a professor at the Kyiv Academy of Art, widely exhibited and sold all over Ukraine and abroad. His main interest is Hutzul culture, and the paintings tell that: mountains and bucolic huts on his landscapes, ethnically dressed hutzuls. He spends most of his summers in the Carpathians with his students on plain air and scavenging for local antiques.Brings in the business to the villagers who model sometimes for weeks for a painting. He defines his technique as impressionism: achieving maximum effect with minimum strokes. Here are some of his works (mostly they are in very large format):

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.

recently finished painting these two architectural landmarks:

2007, oil on canvas 50×30 cm. 18x 24 cm. Please send your bid by email if you want to purchase this painting.
I visited it on tour of Zakarpattya last winter. It’s an unforgettable place : the Carpathians are behind you, and this castle rises up above the plains on a man-made hill. Three castles one inside another really when you start exploring it… And the sweet wine that locals produce there is something else.

2007, oil on canvas, 30x50cm, private collection