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The Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Institute of America cordially invite you to attend a reception for the opening of the exhibition Friday, April 13, 2007, from 6-8pm
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VASYL BAZHAJ
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| NEW YORK,
March 30, 2007 -- The Ukrainian Institute of America
is pleased to announce a rare U.S. showing of paintings by one of
Ukraine’s most significant and celebrated abstractionists,
Vasyl Bazhaj. An opening reception, will be held at the Institute on
Friday, April 13th from 6-8p.m. The exhibit runs through May 6, 2007. It is comprised of 26 oils, all created in the last 20 years and including the large canvases that Bazhaj is particularly known for. A native and resident of Lviv in Western Ukraine, Bazhaj, 57, developed his artistic style in the late 1980s, when government censorship loosened and the artist was able to unleash his creative genius by furiously going on the offensive against a system that for decades had censored non-sanctioned artistic forms. What critics say: “Vasyl Bazhaj is a ‘pure’ abstractionist, submerged in the controlled riot of color and form… impressions come from the richness and beauty of color and the variety and profoundness of the color harmony.” -- Grigory Ostrovsky, Tel Aviv “His large canvases emanated a mighty, gloomy force. His object-less compositions bore the stamp of geological or psychological shifts, struggles and strains. Like hardened lava, the fragments of pictorial forms seem to be thrown upon the canvas after melting in fire and then hardening in sullen rage into cold immobility.” -- Dmytro Horbachov, Kyiv, Ukraine “The mighty artistic temperament sounded in the lower registers of the large canvases, on which monumental architecture continued, developed and concentrated on the intense dynamics of the main movement-struggle. On the other hand, the most subtle nuances of color sounded in diminutive form. Here a single stroke of the brush acquired utmost significance.” -- Olena Ripko, Lviv, Ukraine |
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