october – december 3 (3) 2010
ART-KYIV: Genius loci. 2010 ART-KYIV contemporary
Panorama.ua: Zoya Orlova. Children’s Veranda as a State of Mind
Highlights: How Peter and Mazepa built the fortress together
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ART CITIES It’s been a while since I travelled as much as over the last two months. After becoming the CEO of Mystetskyj Arsenal I realised that I need to learn how the global art industry works, and the best way to discover that was to personally see the best foreign museums and attend the main art events of the year: the opening of the Architecture Biennale in Venice; an important meeting in Vienna with the directors of major museums, including negotiations about bringing masterpieces of the art world to Arsenal; then trips to Art-Moscow, Art Forum Berlin and London’s Frieze Art Fair. I had virtually no days off then. And the programme was so rich: museums, art centres and meetings with interesting people everywhere I went. I read at one point that a leading global curator, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, spends the majority of his time in planes, so now I truly understand him. In a world where everything is globalised it is hard to attend every art show, conference, biennale or other such events to which your international peers constantly invite you. But this art globetrotting experience, at least from time to time, is quite useful: having seen such a sequence of museums, fairs and galleries has made me consider carefully the image for this new type of cultural management, about which we know so little in Ukraine. So, precisely in order to 'uncover' Ukrainian art for the world and to utilise the experience and knowledge of our foreign colleagues, I decided to host a big roundtable discussion during Art-Kyiv Contemporary, 'The Museum in the Modern Context'. Valerie Hillings from the Guggenheim Museum in New York will attend, as will Alexander Borovsky from the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Khudozhestvenny zhurnal ('Art magazine') publisher and director Viktor Misiano, the Korean curator of the Gwangju biennale, plus the chief editors of leading German museums. I truly believe that they will enlighten us with their experiences and help solidify the long-term strategy of the biggest museum-exhibition centre in Ukraine and all of Eastern Europe, Mystetskyj Arsenal. In Vienna I met Peter Noever. He is the artistic director of the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) and is a legendary and wonderful conversationalist. I was sitting in a chair created by the main designer of the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao and Abu Dhabi, star of architectural deconstructivism Frank Gehry, while Noever persisted in explaining to me which mistakes I 2
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should avoid when shaping a museum of Arsenal’s size and scope. Clearly bothering him were the travails of the Museum Quarter in Vienna, which has been the subject of intense discussion in Austria going back several decades. I was sitting there listening to him and appreciating the value of the experience that such acclaimed experts have to offer Ukrainian museum curators. We need to build more than one Arsenal and perhaps very many new cultural establishments. Just imagine, right now in China several hundred new museums are being built. The same is taking place on a smaller scale perhaps in other developing countries. In Mexico for example, one museum curator told me that artistic life, including that of museums, is flourishing there. Ukraine has everything it needs to actively develop in this way: it has very interesting and rapidly developing art, a rich heritage and many wealthy potential patrons. So now it’s important for us to bring all of this together, open ourselves to the world and learn from the most fruitful and interesting experiences. Only then will we be able to create a truly new museum – one to which people will want to return again and again. Moreover, we mustn’t forget that the new international art map is currently evolving and on which Kyiv should exist as a location which draws people for its art. Nataliia Zabolotna, Honorary Founding Chairperson of the magazine ART UKRAINE
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EDITORIAL This autumn Kyiv will host such an amazing array of artistic events that our modest magazine is not big enough to reflect the scope of development in the Ukrainian art scene. For the magazine’s print version we chose to present only the most important and valuable information. But the good news is that our website, www.artukraine.com.ua, is now complete, bringing you the latest updates on what’s happening in the Ukrainian art community, as well as current international art news. Order now for 2011 print subscriptions or check out our recently developed electronic subscription option, which gives readers access to any issue of the magazine online. The current issue is devoted to the main event in November, the Art-Kyiv Contemporary fair, plus briefs on the most significant art events of the past few months. This issue’s cover page features a painting by promising young Kyiv artist Zoya Orlova, whose works can be seen in the Small Gallery of Mystetskyj Arsenal, as well as at ART-KYIV contemporary 2010. We appreciate your opinions about our work, so please send your questions, comments and suggestions to info@artukraine.com.ua, or leave comments on our facebook page. Let’s create an effective network together! Alisa Lozhkina Editor in Chief ART UKRAINE <РУБРІКА>
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1/ DMYTRO GORBACHOV — professor, art historian specializing in the history and theory of visual art. His widely ranging interests include Baroque art of the 17th-18th centuries, 19th century Romanticism and Realism, Secession and Avant-Garde art 1900-1930 (Kyiv).
2/ HALYNA KLYUCHKOVSKA
— journalist and regular contributor to Art Ukraine since 2007. Her interests include art systems in Ukraine and abroad (Kyiv). 3/ MARIA KHRUSCHAK — journalist, art critic, curator. Correspondent for Artkhronika in Russia. Her special areas of interest are contemporary art and the history and theory of photography. expert.
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4/ YEVHEN HOLUBOVSKY — Vice President of the Worldwide Association of Odessa. Journalist, cultural
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5/ YEVHEN DEMENOK — financier, collector, author of a variety of journal and almanac articles. Heads literary studies with Yevhen Holubovsky. Lives and works in Odessa.
6/ ANASTASIYA ALEKSEYEVA — a cultural specialist in public relations. Interested in art systems (Kyiv). 7/ NATALIA
CHERMALYKH — Specialist in Eastern Studies and Japanese literature and art of the 19th-20th centuries. Studied literature and contemporary art in Kyiv, Paris and Tokyo. She currently combines teaching of Eastern Studies with work in literary translation and art criticism (Kyiv).
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RADYNSKI — cultural expert, collaborator on the Centre for Visual Culture NaUKMA (Kyiv). 9/ IGOR TYSHCHENKO — is a cultural expert, interested in history of culture, architecture and psychoanalysis.
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The ART-KYIV international art fair, which celebrates its five-year anniversary this year, has changed its location and will instead take place at the National Cultural-Art and Museum Complex 'Mystetskyj Arsenal'. page 8
On October 21 the personal exhibition 'Children’s Pavilions' by Zoya Orlova opened in the small gallery of Mystetskyj Arsenal. Ihor Tyshenko interviewed the new contemporary art prodigy about hew new nostalgic series of paintings. page 44
ART-KYIV Genius loci. 2010 ART-KYIV contemporary Art Fair in Mystetskyj Arsenal ART-KYIV changes location
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HIGHLIGHTS Our aim – a cutting edge museum centre How Peter and Mazepa built the fortress together The Arsenal: a history of disarmament
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ARTGLOBUS Peter Weibel: We live in times characterised by a crisis in competence Caravaggio: the perfect illusion
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PANORAMA.UA Ukrainian news Zoya Orlova. Children’s Pavilion as a State of Mind Relevance Square Lady GuGa Vyshy-wow!Ukrainian embroidery in contemporary art
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INTERVIEWS Mekas and Fluxus AES+F: Postmodernism has quietly passed Pavlo Makov: Reality always supercedes mystification Olexandra Zhumaylova-Dmytrovska Oleksiy Say: Office presentations are like imprisoned folk art
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HISTORY The First Odessa Avant-Garde Field Studies of Public Space
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NEW NAMES Anatoly Shmatko’s High Naїve
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GALLERY Profile of a gallery owner:Victoria Burlaka
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EVENTS Ukrainian events
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AES+F is currently one of the most successful Russian art groups. It comprises Tetiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, Evgeny Svyatsky, and more recently, Volodymyr Fridkes. Even in a global context their combination of talents — two architects, a designer and a fashion photographer — make them one of the most organic formations in Russian art. This is due to their original 'digital painting' style — a mixture of photography, 3D graphics and video, and also their capacity to engage with sensitive themes in the Eastern world. The artists have been deemed 'prophetic' following their 1996 Islamic project, in which they played with the 'clothing' of European architectural monuments and mosque domes, and then in 2001 'filmed' the Statue of Liberty in a veil. Ever since, interest in the group's work has consistently and steadily increased. page 72
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