We are glad that this Ukrainian exhibition is held in France, in the heart of European will and progress, where an extraordinary cultural phenomenon has been formed – the art.
The said project is represented by the works of artists of several generations; it ranges from realistic artistic thinking to conceptual – abstract thinking.
Among the works are those made in the technique of oil painting: Ex. Petro Harpash, Roman Opalinsky, Yury Koch and Olga Pohribna-Koch.
While their colleagues – Sergiy Savchenko, Ivan Protsiv, Stephan Mostryansky, Roman Yatsiv, use acrylic on canvas and cardboard. One can distinguish structuralist, expressionist elements, as well as those of abstraction and cubism going as far as the integration of symbols, signs, everyday objects of the Ukrainian people.
Oleksandr Boroday and Feodosii Houmenyuk combine the ancient traditions of Ukrainian artistic culture with elements of modern art.
The philosophical prints of Oleh Denysenko were created as a complement to the previous techniques. The works of Tetyana Ilyina and Ustym Fedko exploit the traditions of the ancient technique of hot enamel in easel and monumental forms. While Halyna Slobodian’s silk paintings, known as “batiks”, demonstrate a certain refinement or even a certain sophistication…
The exhibition of works by contemporary Ukrainian artists placed under the triad "Spirit - Freedom - Emotion" takes on its full meaning by investing in themes related to the Russian military aggression in Ukraine. The key markers of the exhibition project will be the concepts of Spirit and Freedom, integrated into the emotional states of the authors. The latter thus develop formalist concepts in dialogue with the global cultural process.
The exhibition project's mission is to affirm the universal cultural values that are defended by artists from our two countries in a long historical and cultural dialogue. It is also possible to detect guidelines and new perspectives for the integration of Ukrainian creative genius into world cultural reality.
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