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Ukrainian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Ukrainian Pavilion
At the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Artist: Oksana Mas
Project: Post-vs-Proto-Renaissance
Curators: Achille Bonito Oliva, Oleksiy Rogotchenko
Commissioner: Viktor Sydorenko
Organizers: Fedorova Cultural Foundation and Change Performing Arts
Art is the attempt to mend a bereavement, the loss of completeness and the descent into a partial and fragmentary world. In this regard, creation is the development and healing process of the artist who uses form as the crystal-clear evidence of a newfound wholeness. The sphere is the emblem of a circularity that flows and brings together, as shown in the history of art, which, ever since the Middle Ages, has always combined reason with instinct, rationality with spirituality. For several years now, Oksana Mas has been working on reclaiming the sphere as a geometric shape holding within itself a principle of universal oneness. The artist starts from the krashenki Ukrainian folk custom: wooden eggs covered in traditional decorations celebrating Easter. She gave the eggs, incarnation of the sphere, to inmates in women’s penitentiaries, intellectuals and people working in various fields from forty-two different countries asking them to paint them.
The installation by the title Post-vs.-Proto-Renaissance presented at the Biennale di Venezia in the Pavilion of Ukraine is a section of the monumental work (m.92X134), composed by 3.640,000 wooden eggs. The iconographic reference is the work of the Van Eyck brothers, proto-Renaissance artists who painted "The gardens of paradise," which can be seen on an altar in the Flemish city of Ghent. The eggs form a veritable architecture whose structure evokes a mosaic in which the eggs’ iconographic tattoos constitute the single elements. Ancient and modern art merge into an image embracing stories of sins and dreams of redemption, hope in the future and a yearning for purity. Depending on the distance, the work breaks down as if it were a digital file of egg-pixels, each one representing the dramatic destiny of mankind. Contemplating the work of Oksana Mas is a form of initiation into a new life, a full life.
Venue
CHIESA DI SAN FANTIN, Sestiere San Marco, Venice
Preview: June 1–3, 2011
Public: June 4–November 27, 2011
International press contact Ukrainian Pavilion:
Change Performing Arts
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Exhibitions on the Monte-Carlo's street
From July 13 till August 30 Monte-Carlo’s central street Ave Henri Dunant is being decorated with Ukrainian painter Oksana Mas artworks. Principality of Monaco’ authorities put all the efforts to familiarize guests with the best novel trends in contemporary art. To do so they renew outdoors exposition every season. Prince of Monaco Albert II has chosen “Spheres of Good and Spiritual Renaissance” by Oksana Mas and Anish Kapoor mirror plate out of a short-list for this season’ exhibition. There are seven spheres exhibited in Monaco this year, five of them, sized 90 x 110 cm can be seen at Ave Henri Dunant, and two more spheres, sized 50 x 110 cm, in the premises of Opera Gallery, Palais de la Scala, 1 Ave Henri Dunant.
Opera Gallery, Palais de la Scala 1 Ave Henri Dunant exhibits not only sculptures from the project “Spheres of Good and Spiritual Renaissance”, but also oils and graphics by Oksana Mas. Exhibition is being run alongside with Pablo Picasso artworks presentation..
