22^nd of October: Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine launches a joint exhibition of the two of the brightest avant-garde artists in the Ukrainian art – Tiberiy Silvashi and Vasyl Bazhai.

The exposition features more than 60 works of the artists. This project was partially represented during the Week of modern art that was organized last August in Lviv. Some part of it will be presented to the visitors for the first time.

The art expert of the museum, Mariana Musiy, says: “Tiberiy Silvashi and Vasyl Bazhai are among the masters of the Ukrainian modern art whose authority is irrefutable and whose works are recognized far beyong the borders of our country”. The presentation of their works in the exhibition halls was always a kind of event in the art community, and the combination of these two powerful creative potentials in our museum is a real explosion of expression reflected in color and form”.

“Today you may sometimes hear about the overall “lagging” of Ukrainian works from the global processes, though considering the analysis and overview of Bazhai’s legacy we may come to a conclusion that this is not absolutely true. Bazhai is actively employing 3 major elements in his approach – non-figurative art, clear abstraction, and work, thus trying to follow the ascertained global traditions in the art community of 1980^th – 1990^th.  It’s been more than once for over the 20-year work that we have witnessed his tremendous projects in Kyiv and Lviv. The interest in non-figurative art started to appear somewhere in 1982-1983, when the whole world was just beginning to talk about the “new and wild”, neo-expressionism, and trans-avant-garde”, says the art expert, Roman Gankevych.

Considering the work of his colleague, Tiberiy Silvashi, another artist Dmytro Korsun says: “… the art appears as the architecture of issues, a game of truth in which the even field of sense the artist introduces his uncontrollable concepts. From this perspective, the art can no longer stay as a single craft but a performance targeted on the understanding of own language and the whole world respectively. A great sorrow over the metaphysical and desire for transcendental experience are the main contents of the works by Tiberiy Silvashi. This amount of color, its poignancy, strength, and polyphonic volume creates a kind of special tension, that is so close to catharsis. Just as it is in the classical drama, the tension is created through the objective opposition of human and divine, or through the contrasting of colors as it is for the art.

The exhibition will take place till November 21^st, 2010.

For seeing the photo-report from the opening of the exhibition click here.

“The presentation of their works in the exhibition halls has always been a kind of event in the art community, and the combination of these two powerful creative potentials in our museum is a real explosion of expression reflected in color and form”. Mariana Musiy