Projects
Face-to-Face US/Asia Tour
ACP has begun planning and partnering negotiations for its United States/China Face-to-Face Art Tour. With two financial worlds, two political systems, and two different cultures competing for leadership in the world of art, the tour will be the first of its kind and will involve well-known American and Chinese artists showcasing the finest in contemporary art.
The Face-to-Face Tour, planned for 2015, will commence in New York City, home of Wall Street, with subsequent exhibitions in Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami. It will then travel to China, home of the Great Wall, with exhibitions in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai, as well as Tokyo, Seoul, and Singapore.
Real Realism
ACP is planning an art workshop and exhibition in 2016 with anticipated exhibits in Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. This “Real Realism” workshop and exhibition will include over 300 paintings representing the art of socialist realism from the Soviet Union between 1960 through 1990, Ukrainian realistic art since 1950, and contemporary realistic art primarily from Ukraine. It promises to present an interesting comparison between different eras with differing world views from the same geographic region.
There is great interest in realistic art in China, the affection for which has its roots in China’s relationship with the former Soviet Union. Thus a part of contemporary Chinese art is based on the post-Soviet epoch.
The artwork that will be exhibited and offered in public and private galleries with select pieces available for sale will be divided into specific groups that include: 1) realistic art of the 20th century and 2) prints and lithographs of top segment artists from the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Art of Europe
As Asian collectors are becoming more and more interested in European art, ACP is planning an art workshop and exhibition in 2017 that will include classical art of the 17th to 19th centuries, as well as how Asian art has influenced European art and the impact of the art of Europe on the art of Asia. Locations for the tour will include Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
Introversion
Curator: Ksenia Malykh
We imagined that artists no longer had any responsibility to society. They were now unbound by concerns about racial inequality, the destruction of cultural monuments, the political situation in the country, the oppression of minorities.
We imagined that we’d taken away the ability to replicate their own and others successful techniques.
Eighteen young artists accepted the invitation to participate. We offered no resources for their projects, except our support.
Introversion – a dropping into yourself, in some sense. After a series of sharp social questions that were raised by the artists themselves, there comes a time when questions must be addressed to your own life, to yourself.
The previous generation showed us a wide assortment of media. Now we must choose consciously. Technical capabilities are defined in and of itself, with the help of friends and like-minded persons.
The idea is to find and understand oneself in one’s art, showing or hiding from viewer whatever intimate details one chooses. Generations of "free" artists have set for themselves such aims.
The lives of young and searching artists are seen in Introversion. We can feel the pulse of the time, what the Germans call Zeitgeist.
The Beatles: Photographs by Astrid Kirchherr
The Sixties – high heels, mini-skirts and X-ray sound recordings. Many things that become popular in those times are still popular nowadays. The symbol of the epoch is the Liverpool band, The Beatles: exotic suits, moptop haircuts, hysterical fans, and the birth of rock 'n' roll. Fifty photographs of the early Beatles by their close friend and personal Hamburg photographer, Astrid Kirchherr were shown at the exhibition. Among them were unique images that had never been exhibited before.
This collection of photographs is one of the most important visual documentations of popular culture in the 20th century. Astrid Kirchherr’s camera captured the birth of a cataclysmic youth movement that is intimately linked with The Beatles. As their friend and helper, before her eyes the members of the group transformed from unknown to famous, from innocent to wise, from boys to men. They were together at the right time and at the right place, and have created the history of a magical era.
This rich treasure of the social record is a book of remembrance of times and people. It is also a reminder of how important is the individual in the creation of art and the production of something meaningful and real.
Vladimir Yakovets: Lost in Time
Paintings that send messages, objects that engage, videos that intrigue, slideshows that tease, and performances that provoke…
Vladimir Yakovets from Cherkassy was one of the brightest and most hopelessly infected with the new art of the late 1980s. His every action was transformed into a revolutionary act that undermined the existing foundations of morality and social realism. Old hands from the local Union of Artists were cut up rough; young artists were delighted with it and joined Yakovets’s “Zondercommando.” It was the first street art in Ukraine, the first in front of the local public office, and included performances both with and without naked females.
The exhibition presented the last major series: Ideal, Blue Sculpture, Language, Alphabet, Antiki, Antiki2, and Refleckion. Yakovets not only created a wide range of painting, but also worked with secondary images such as well-known photographs, videos, and other media.
A photo of a Roman sculptural portrait is transferred onto canvas and covered by the "informational noise” of civilization, then combined with dozens of the same prototype into a single monumental panel. One feels present at the construction site of the Tower of Babel, but without the fear of the apocalypse. In another piece, Yakovets blanketed the front wall with salutary mantras in sign language, signifying, perhaps, that at the end of the world we all will understand each other and we all will be saved – but no talking, please, or the master will get angry.
Light Rebirth: Tatiana Galochkina
Curator: Ruslan Tarabukin
The object of Tatiana Galochkina’s "Return of the Light" is a labyrinth. The space of the labyrinth is devoid of light and only the pictures exhibited in the labyrinth are lit. Thus, a play of light and shadow introduces the concept of "return of the light."
An unlit labyrinth is a symbol of human consciousness and the spiritual journey. Advancing along it symbolizes the striving to reach the light. Coming out of the darkness to each of the illuminated pictures represents the completion of successive stages of progress through the labyrinth.
Light by itself is pure and transparent; falling on the surface of the painting it is reflected back to us as a real experience.
Labyrinth progression is the accumulation of direct experience of images and dance of the light that is returned or returning to consciousness.
One may not find the right direction and can get stuck at an impasse, one can go to the previous step, one can go back and start over again, but the way to the next picture and the next stage is only by moving forward. Breaking the order of the progression is not possible.
At the end of the labyrinth is a mirror – the consummation of the path. The play of light has returned us to a renewed experience of reality, and we get to meet our own self.
Max Vityk Exhibition
An exhibition featuring over 70 works from Max Vityk’s most productive period has been the artist’s most ambitious project to date.
Max Vityk is an American of Ukrainian descent who began painting in the late 1990s after a successful career as a geologist. Whether inspiration was provided by his awakened roots or the scenic landscapes, when he came to the land of his ancestors in 2006, Vityk started to paint with a passion. During the past several years, he has held a series of solo exhibitions as well as participating in group art fairs, and a representative catalog of his works was highly appraised by leading art critics. His one-man show in the Lviv Palace of Arts in 2010 became a major cultural event. In a short time, Max Vityk has become one of the leading artists to integrate the best traditions of abstract expressionism with an extraordinary sensitivity to color and texture.
More recently, the artist put forward a new series of large canvases entitled "Hallucinations in Zasupoivka."
Twenty new paintings saw the world for the first time. This large retrospective exhibition of Max Vityk opened a cycle of international exhibitions of the master.
The Canary Islands: Native Landscapes
Within the framework of the Seven-Year Plan of Scientific and Cultural Innovations initiated by the Government of the Canary Islands, the Embassy of Spain supported an exhibition entitled “The Canary Islands: Native Landscapes”. It was attended by the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Spain, José Rodriguez Moyano, Sr. Alberto Delgado, Deputy-Minister of Culture of the Canary Islands, and Sr. Ricardo Fernandez de la Puente Armas, Deputy-Minister of Tourism. Music of the Canarian group Terekitetap was part of the art presentation.
Thirty-six artworks of the Canarian artists Poldo Cebrian and Rufina Santana were displayed at the exhibition. Inspired by the scenery of the islands, they expressed their tremendous affection for their homeland in a series of beautiful landscapes. Through the subjective eyes of the artists could be seen the majestic islands, smoky landscapes, immense deserts, high mountains, deep canyons, and bottomless seas. Their aim was to depict things hidden from the tourists and glorified by the island’s poets, and in that they certainly succeeded.
Rufina Santana was educated at the University of Barcelona. She attended various art and literature courses, and worked as assistant at the studios of such outstanding painters as Lucio Munoz and Rafael Canogar. She was an exponent for various exhibitions and has illustrated books and catalogs.
Poldo Cebrian has been fond of taking pictures since his childhood and learned well from his father, spending many hours at his photo studio and eventually choosing art photography as his profession. He is member of numerous group and personal exhibitions, and his works have been published and belong to private and state-owned collections.
The artists created a common language to depict the landscapes of the Canary Islands, presenting both breathtaking realistic views and imaginary pictures of the unity with nature.
While Rufina Santana excels at using the expressive palette of the islands’ colors – yellow of the sun-burnt beaches, green of the plants, red of the fire, and blue of the sea – the photographs of Poldo Cebrian are black and white. The similarities and differences provide an extraordinary opportunity to contemplate the austere yet magnificent world of this unique place.
A recitation of the poems written by natives of the Canary Islands, namely Yolanda Soler, Pinto Grote, Pedro Garcia Cabrera and others, accompanied the art show.
The exhibition was a visual and poetic journey into an undiscovered corner of the world, presenting its culture, traditions, people, and environment through the eyes of two artists who opened the magic of the Canary Islands to those in attendance.
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