On November 19-27, the Lviv Sculpture Week will take place for the first time in three locations. More than 200 sculptures created in the XX-XXI centuries will be presented at the exhibition. The theme of the sculpture week is chaos, because this is the feeling that all Ukrainians are experiencing right now.
“This week is a spontaneous idea, an improvisation that arose during one round table about art in the modern space. Art critic Orest Golubets came up with the idea of creating a week of sculpture. Three weeks of preparation and now we are on the verge of opening. We mounted this exhibition under rockets to show such an important art form.
The sculpture is very different from the monuments or monuments that people are used to and with which a certain vision of three-dimensional plastic is brought up. When I entered these workshops of the Academy of Arts, chaos arose in my head. Chaos is what is happening in the minds of most Ukrainians, which is why it became the theme of this sculpture week. Here we mix the present and the past, the living and the dead, classics and beginners in space. We take sculpture out of workshops, foundations and collections to show it as it is,” says Pavlo Gudimov, curator of the exhibition.
Sculptors represented: Olga Bezpalkiv, Igor Bereza, Nazar Bilyk, Oleksandr Dyachenko, Oleg Kapustyak, Igor Kovalevich, Vasyl Korchovyi, Taras Levkiv, Hanna Lysyk, Mykola Malyshko, Gia Miminoshvili, Yaroslav and Yaroslav Motyky, Roman Petruk, Volodymyr Semkiv, Oleksa Furdiyaka, Denys Shimanskyi, Ulyana Yarosevich and others.
The main exhibition “Chaos” will be presented in the old workshops and in the gallery of the Academy of Arts (Snopkivska St., 47).
The continuation of the program can be seen in “Ya Gallery” (8 Rustaveli St.), visiting the exhibition “New Lviv Sculpture”, as well as Oleksa Furdiyaka’s work “Dudinnia” on Petrushevich Square.
Organizers: Lviv National Academy of Arts and Pavel Gudimov Art Center “Ya Gallery” (with the support of the Lviv City Council).
“We want to start a tradition and hold the Lviv Sculpture Week every fall, attract more partners and venues, popularize three-dimensional art,” adds Pavlo Gudimov.