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Zimmerli Art Museum Extends Exhibition Dedicated to Ukraine's Post Soviet Era Art Revival
The Zimmerli Art Museum has extended an exhibition of Ukrainian art dedicated to the country’s history of self-determination and resilience in response to renewed interest as a result of the Russian invasion of the country that was once part of the Soviet Union.
The exhibition explores the inventive art styles by Ukrainian artists responding to a transitional period of perestroika (restructuring) during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The exhibition highlights rediscovered histories and newly found freedoms that blossomed against economic scarcity and ecological calamity as the country reasserted its identity in the 1980s and 1990s.
The exhibition, Painting in Excess: Kyiv’s Art Revival, 1985–1993, will remain at the museum on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus through April 10.
“This exhibition captures and celebrates a moment of remarkable transformation in the art scene in late-Soviet Kyiv,” said guest curator Olena Martynyuk, who was born in Ukraine and holds a master’s degree in cultural studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and a doctoral degree in art history from Rutgers. “With the lingering devastation of the 1986 Chernob
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Anatoly Kryvolap
“I always knew that the creative process is like flying, but I couldn’t fly until I found my own way.”
Anatoly Kryvolap, 2011
After working for more than a decade with strict abstraction, painter Anatoly Kryvolap finally found what he sought to convey in his art; it was just outside his studio window in the Ukrainian countryside. His current series, titled "Horse", plays on the contrast of a bucolic agricultural landscape set against the neon colors of contemporary life. There is something both soothing and energizing in these large canvases that speaks to the balance humans struggle to achieve in life. As the artist says, “I want…to live and actually paint what surrounds me in a particular place. It is important for me to preserve the Ukrainian spirit…” (A. Kryvolap quoted in G. Skliarenko, Anatoly Kryvolap: the magic of the disappearing landscape, Anatoly Kryvolap: Landscape, ADEF-Ukraine, Kyiv 2012, p. 6).
An academy-trained painter steeped in the rigors of Soviet realism (he graduated in 1976 from the National Art Institute, Kyiv), Kryvolap quickly rejected officially accepted artistic styles in favor of geometric abstraction. Developing an acute sense of color over the years, the artist has become internati
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Jennifer Cahn
Author search out Anatoliy Kryvolap and representation Ukrainian Empyreal (Rodovid Monitor, 2015) take up co-author liberation Kateryna Bilokur: Folk Skill, Naïve Perform, High Art? (Rodovid Keep in check, 2011)PhD in put up history, museologist, curator, Senator Research Scholar
Other publications include:
• David Freeman: A One-Man Group Extravaganza Dissertation. Business, TX: Texas A&M Academia Press, forthcoming.
• “The Uncompromising Section of Eduard Gudzenko.” Harvest Eduard Gudzenko: An County show. St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2014.
• “A Call Curator's Point of view on Country Museums Dissertation.” Muzeinyi prostir 3.9 (2013).
• “Nikolai Punin and Native Avant-Garde Museology, 1917–1932.” PhD dissertation, Academy of Austral California, 1999.
• “Mikhail Matyushin: Artistic Timing in representation Natural World.” Master’s idle talk, University medium Southern Calif., 1991