Posts Tagged ‘Kiev’

PinchukArtCentre, Kiev: Beauty

"Beauty", Solo Exhibition by Gary Hume 4 February 2012 – 1 April 2012 PinchukArtCentre presents the first solo exhibition by the British artist Gary Hume in Eastern Europe. The show entitled Beauty includes more than 60 paintings, drawings and two sculptures. Gary Hume’s painting seduces often by being beautiful. Starting his artistic practice with his [...]

PinchukArtCentre, Kiev: In light, black, colour, white, and dark

“The beauty of photography is rooted in the great collage wich everyday life is, a combination of absolutely concrete and specific things created by no-one and everyone, all of which becomes available once it is unified into a picture”. Jeff Wall interviewed by Arielle Pélenc, Phaidon 1996 "In light, black, colour, white, and dark", Solo [...]

PinchukArtCentre, Kiev: Solo Exhibition of Mykola Matsenko

Solo Exhibition of Mykola Matsenko in the context of РАС-UA 4 February 2012 – March 2012 PAC-UA is a special line to present new production of leading Ukrainian artists embedded in the international context of the Collection Platform, aiming to research ongoing artistic processes within the country and support strong and long-term collaboration between the [...]

Ya Gallery Art Center, Kiev: Deus Ex Machina

Flowers and Bones, 2011, canvas, acryl, spra 17.01 – 26.02.12 Deus Ex Machina. Oleksandr Korol Ya Gallery Art Center at 17 Husenko Str. In the history of ancient Greek theatre Deus Ex Machina (Latin: "God out of the machine") is a trick performed with the help of a mechanism with a hook for the god-actor [...]

Ya Gallery, Kiev: TWO

11.01 – 06.02.12 Oleg Gryshchenko TWO Dualism is characteristic of our nature. It permeates all the existence. All our life is divided into material and spiritual, exterior and interior, high and low, naturalistic and symbolic, conscious and unconscious, literal and figurative. These two directives exist in every individual, every personality, sometimes intertwining with each other, [...]

Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kiev: Cabernet

11.01 – 06.02.12 Cabernet. Oleksandr and Tamara Babak "Hurry, give me a goblet of wine, so that I can freshen my mind and say something smart" Aristophanes Based on Tom Standage's research "A History of the World in Glasses"*, it is possible to come to a conclusion that grapes hold a chronologically second position in [...]

Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev: Collection Platform 2: Circulation

Damien Hirst, Beautiful Zeus Maia Freya Isis Mediative Hysterical Sensory-Deprived Dream Painting, 2007 Collection Platform 2: Circulation 29 October 2011 – 1 April 2012 PinchukArtCentre presents Collection Platform 2: Circulation, a completely renewed exhibition of selected works from the collection representing leading international and Ukrainian contemporary artists. The show located on the 5th floor of [...]