PinchukArtCentre Opens a New Ukrainian-American GENERATIONS.UsA Exhibition
On 19 January 2007 the PinchukArtCentre presented GENERATIONS.UsA exhibition – a new project of young Ukrainian and American artists.
GENERATIONS.UsA is the first exhibition that brings together in one place works of young artists from Ukraine (UA) and the United States of America (USA), providing a review of contemporary art in both countries.
"Such exhibitions provide young artists with the opportunity to compare themselves with others and find their own spot within their generation. This is a quite unique situation, when such works are exhibited at the same time at the same place," said Alexander Soloviev, Ukrainian curator of PinchukArtCentre.
The project participants are 12 Ukrainian artists (including 2 art duets): Stanislav Volyazlovsky, Kseniya Gnylytska and Lada Nakonechna, Mykyta Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Olena Polyashchenko, Mykola Ridny, Bella Logacheva, Oleksander Semenov, Lesya Khomenko, Masha Shubina; and eight American ones - Dzine, Faile, Kozyndan, Shepard Fairey, Naomi Fisher, Ryan McGinness, Ed Templeton, and Swoon.
The exhibition features different types of art: paintings, graphics, sculpture, photos, video, wall pictures and installations.
Peter Doroshenko, president of PinchukArtCentre, is convinced that the Ukrainian-American GENERATIONS.UsA project represents the main idea of the contemporary art centre - bringing Ukrainian art into the world perspective.
"In two or three years we expect to become one of the best European art centres. We will exhibit the best Ukrainian artists, create the context for them, show them abroad. These will be high rank exhibitions that would be recognized as "different," novel ones not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe and all over the world," said Doroshenko.
The GENERATIONS.UsA exhibition will be open from 19 January till 25 March 2007 at PinchukArtCentre. The entry is free.
The first exhibition "New Space", was staged at PinchukArtCenter from 16 September until 16 December 2006, and was attended by more than 35,000 people.
