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  • 21.12.2013  Announcing our new book:

    • “Volodymyr Makarenko Paintings” is a long awaited publication that studies 45 creative years of Volodymyr Makarenko, a Ukrainian modernist and non-conformist artist who has been living in Paris since 1981. Besides its artistic value illustrating over 150 paintings and drawings by Makarenko from 1962 up to the most recent works, this book offers a comprehensive study of an artist who stood against Soviet propaganda machine, who chose a freedom of artistic expression over a comfortable lifestyle of socialist realism painter in the former Soviet Union. Whether Makarenko lived in St. Petersburg, Tallinn, or Paris, he has always been a Ukrainian artist inspired by national style and ornaments, inspired by great Ukrainian history and traditions. This publication contains 200 pages, over 150 color illustrations, a number of photographs from personal archive of the artist and forewords by Prof. Daria Darewych, Vita Susak; text by Jean Claude Markade and interview with the artist by Alexander Demko. Illustrated works by Makarenko are from the artist’s collection as well as museum and private collections in the USA, Canada, Germany, France and Ukraine. Ukrainian texts edited by Vasyl Makhno. English text edited by Prof. Daria Darewych. This is a highly anticipated publication for all those who admire and collect works by Volodymyr Makarenko. In English, Ukrainian and Russian, 200 pages, hardcover. >>>(Hardcover) Forewords by Prof. Daria Darewych (Toronto) and Vita Susak (Lviv). Texts by Jean-Claude Marcade (Paris) and Alexander Demko (New York). >>>Alexander Demko and Anton Solomoukha (Art photographs), Artfira Gallery (Concept), Design by Lukyan Turetsky - 2D-Studio, Ukraine, Edition of 1,000. >>>Special thanks to Daria and Jurij Darewych, Toronto, Volodymyr Kvashuk, Kyiv, Danylo Volynets and Oksana Markarova, USA and Prof. & Mrs. Basil A. Kalymon, Toronto. Publisher: Artfira Gallery, artfira.com. (December 2013) Language: Ukrainian, English and Russian. ISBN-13: 9780578120942. Product Dimensions: 285 x 215 x 18 mm / 11.25 x 8.5 x 0.75 inches. Shipping Weight: 1.1 kg / 2 lb. 9.20 oz. Available in the United States of America with artfira.com at $40 plus shipping. To buy the book please e-mail: mail@artfira.com or call 917-573-5688. You can also buy it on the Internet at www.amazon.com/shops/artfira
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