05.12.2008  ARTemigrants exhibition

• The idea to show works by Ukrainian artists who live outside of Ukraine appeared to the exhibition curator, Mychajlo Schevchenko while visiting Moscow. Two of his old friends, Sergei Bazelev and Sergei Geta have moved to Moscow in the late 1970s where they became well known artists. In fact, well know Russian artists, whose works are in a permanent collection of the Tretyakov Museum. Yet, those who followed art related events of the late 1970s and early 1980s remember Bazelev and Geta as very active artists of Kyiv art scene. Many of the artists who moved out of Ukraine did so in search of artistic liberties and free artistic expression not allowed in Kyiv at that time. The fact is that many talented and promising mid-career and well established artists of Ukraine of the 1980s and 1990s, now live and work in places like Moscow, Paris and New York. The good news is that The Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art in Kyiv with its series of ART emigrants exhibitions wants to show works by such artists in Ukraine. On view paintings, sculpture, photographs and works on paper by Anton Solomoukha (France), Sergei Bazelev, Sergei Geta, Sergei Sherstiuk (1951-1988) (Russia), and Yevgeniy Prokopov, Anton Skorubsky, Eugene Gordiets (USA). Curated by Mychajlo Schevchenko, director of the Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art in Kyiv. A full color, 194 pages catalogue is available for sale. For more information please email to musom@isv.com.ua or call +380-44-463-7669. Address: 14 Bratska Street, Kyiv 04070, Ukraine. The museum is open daily from 11:00am – 7:00pm. Closed on Mondays. Admission is free.