Three Perspectives

This is the name of an exhibition opened at the Griffin Gallery. It presents the works of three young Kyiv-based women artists: Ivanna Moskovka, Olena Kurovska, and Tetiana Kuhai.

Almost all of Ivanna Moskovka’s paintings feature flowers: always recognizable and always transformed, with pronounced decorative qualities and capriciously refined. Mostly they are completely self-sufficient (The Last Kiss), sometimes becoming an accompaniment for ancient architecture or giving occasion for a lyrical fantasy on a Renaissance theme (The Tune).

Olena Kurovska’s works are characterized by emphatic sketchiness. Due to this, the young painter’s landscapes and still lifes preserve the freshness, almost ingeniousness of the first impression, while the seeming unpretentiousness of the plots turns out to be epic monumentality, fixed attention to the mundane and to the old paradox of life.

Tetiana Kuhai’s paintings are the most whimsical and unexpected of the three participants of the exhibition. She is inventive, audacious, and exquisite in her works. She truly possesses the ability to turn everything she depicts into a miracle: from half-imaginary nooks and crannies of Kyiv to still lifes to flights above our mundane existence. In her works objects and phenomena display their other, exciting, and fantastic qualities — and most probably — their essence.