Ukrainian soul. Immersion…

The “Museum Collection” exhibition of Anatolii Kryvolap, winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, is on display at the Andrei Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv (42, Drahomanov St.). It features more than three dozen works of the artist.

 It should be noted that this display is simultaneously the author’s first personal exhibition in Lviv, and at the same a presentation of a project entitled “Ukraine. The Best” which involves musicians, artists, photographers, actors, directors, and writers. And among them is Kryvolap, the most popular and expensive Ukrainian artist in the world. The exhibition also presents an art catalog of the series “Museum of Private Collections,” entitled “Anatolii Kryvolap. Collection No. 1” – it is Ukraine’s first single artist catalog, which showcases 299 works owned by Ukrainian collectors.

Anatolii Kryvolap is a Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. In 2011, the artist’s works had twice set a world record on the price of a contemporary Ukrainian art sold in the international art market. In 2012 Kryvolap was awarded the Shevchenko Prize for the series of 50 works entitled “The Ukrainian Motif.”

Photo replica by Pavlo PALAMARCHUK

 Three years ago, Anatolii Kryvolap already visited Lviv – at the invitation of the International Institute for Education, Culture, and Relations with Diaspora at the National University “Lviv Polytechnic.” He participated in the creative evening “Life is a journey...” “Anatolii has never sought a niche in the commercial sector of show business, which is often ahead of the artistic process, he went on to immerse into the fundamentals of painting itself, into the tradition of Ukrainian landscape art, into the basic features of Ukraine and Ukrainian soul,” said Professor Roman Yatsiv, art historian, rector of the Lviv Academy of Arts. “That very specific guidance has formed the basis of his creative method, which has then evolved in complex ways to dispose of naturalism, to overcome abstraction and conceptualism, which often don’t have the emotional and intellectual points of reference to a specific tradition. Kryvolap wants to understand the most important things: a person and the environment, a person and the geo-cultural space, a person and the landscape. The intersection of these concepts is the birthplace of his unique author’s concept...”

The “Museum Collection” will be on display through October 17.