News
19.02.2008
Reflection is closed in a week
Sunday February 24 the REFLECTION exhibit showcasing the newest acquisitions from PinchukArtCentre's collection: paintings, sculpture arts, installations, photo and video-installations by the prominent internationals artists is closed.
As entered into its second year of work PinchukArtCentre presented REFLECTION, an exhibit which eventually turned into the PinchukArtCentre's largest project ever in Ukraine and scored a total of 150 000 visitors. For the exhibit's opening party to Ukraine arrived Damian Hirst, Jeff Koons, Antony Gormley, Andreas Gursky, Garry Gagosian and Jay Joplin.
According to Peter Doroshenko, the artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre, "Lately the REFLECTION was one of the most visited exhibits in Europe, the numbers was so high that we even extended its work. Actually, it evidences that Ukrainians do take interest in the contemporary art".
As the ARTFORUM of January 2008 penned in the exhibit's review "Exhibitions that feature both local and international art have become increasingly common as centers of contemporary art open in places previously considered peripheral, providing opportunities to see works by artists from different parts of the world side by side."
As a part of the exhibit's activity there was held a panel discussion "An artist of 21 century" featuring leading international and local artists such as Jeff Koons, Antony Gormley, Sergey Bratkov, Arsen Savadov, Vasilii Tsagolov, Illia Chichkan. Also, the PinchukArtCentre set up a string of lectures and multimedia works' displays: a lecture "Photography in installation" and a video by Sergei Bratkov, who was previously commissioned for "A poem about an inland sea", Ukrainian exposition at the 52nd Venice Biennale; a lecture by Akiko Miki on contemporary Japanese art; a lecture and a video by Liugi Beltram on urbanism and an architecture of modernity; display of video by Sara Morris, Takashi Murakami and other.
