![]() ![]() The museum is pleased to showcase perhaps the most well-known work of this time, Georgii Senchenko’s wall-sized Sacred Landscape of Pieter Bruegel (1988), an oil rendering of Bruegel’s ink drawing The Beekeepers and the Birdnester (1568). Thus, allusions to antique ruins and other spoils of Western culture abound in Ukrainian painting. Simultaneously, Ukrainian artists discovered chapters of local history that had been suppressed or deleted, as well as their decades-long exclusion from the global library of art. ![]() Emerging Ukrainian art became a powerful agent in this transformation of the city from the provincial center of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic into a cultural capital."Įxcessive in its expressive manner and color, Kyivan painting of the late 1980s and early 1990s produced a new quality in art, no longer defined by the dichotomy of official and unofficial art during the Soviet era (1922-1991). “With the lingering devastation of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe and imminent collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyiv was undergoing radical changes. “This exhibition captures and celebrates a moment of remarkable transformation in the art scene in late-Soviet Kyiv,” said guest curator Olena Martynyuk, who was born in Ukraine and holds a master’s degree in cultural studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and a doctoral degree in art history from Rutgers. ![]() The exhibition, Painting in Excess: Kyiv’s Art Revival, 1985–1993, will remain at the museum on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus through April 10. The exhibition highlights rediscovered histories and newly found freedoms that blossomed against economic scarcity and ecological calamity as the country reasserted its identity in the 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition explores the inventive art styles by Ukrainian artists responding to a transitional period of perestroika (restructuring) during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Zimmerli Art Museum has extended an exhibition of Ukrainian art dedicated to the country’s history of self-determination and resilience in response to renewed interest as a result of the Russian invasion of the country that was once part of the Soviet Union. ![]()
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