Oksana Mas will represent Ukraine on Venice Biennale

Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas has an intention to represent her mosaic panel called "Post vs Proto-Renessans" at Venice Biennale, that will last from June 4 till November 27, 2011.

In particular, the artist will recreate the Ghent altar - cult work of van Eyck for the Western world, established in 1432 and known as the first work of Renaissance. Performed by Oksana Mas altar will consist of eggs, painted in the kind of sins and fears.

The panel will consist of eight components of 6 X 6 meters. Part of them will be exhibited in the pavilion, part - outside. In the eggs' painting are participating representatives of 50 nationalities and different faiths.

"For the sins of men it is impossible to distinguish, all they are the same. Therefore, the religious question, if it was the theme of disputes, now is withdrawn. Mankind is a single organism" - commented the artist.

In order to make the whole Ghent altar, we need 303 pieces of panel 6 on 6 meters. This is 3.4 million eggs. For comparison - a panel of St. Sophia Kyivska has 14 thousand eggs. If the altar was once able toto gather, it will be 92 meters in heights and 134 meters in width.
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On 9 June 2009, the Drive 9, (2008) work of art was sold at Sotheby's in London for 33.000 pounds.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Sacred Images from the 11th to the 19th Centuries and

Golden Treasures and Lost Civilizations

Outdoor sculpture installations by Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas

Meridian International Center’s Cafritz Galleries

White-Meyer House

1624 Crescent Place, N.W.

Washington, DC

USA

Grand opening on 7 october 2010

Oksana Mas - Penthouse Gallery, Athens - Greece

Alimos, Leoforos Posidonos 1, 6th floor

17652 Athens - Greece

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The developer of Capital City Vladislav Doronin (Moscow) fund Capital Group Art Foundation, who will work in the field of modern art. The company during the last ten years formed private collection of contemporary art. Right now you can see in the hall of the building work by Kunst, Oksana Mas and Anish Kapoor.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2010 - Brian Reyes - Front Row And Backstage

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 17: (l-R) Oksana Mas, Brian Reyes, Zorianna L. Altomaro and Katya Luki-Khalupsy attend Brian Reyes Fall 2010 during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Bryant Park on February 17, 2010 in New York City.

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In collaboration with Ukranian-artist Oksana Mas, Brian Reyes will be bringing some Eastern European flair into his autumn 2010 collection. Combined with his shoe-line with Georgina Goodman, this is a guaranteed closet filler.

Zorya Fine Art brings together fashion designer Brian Reyes and acclaimed contemporary artist Oksana Mas to collaborate on what will culminate as the Zorya print, to debut at the Brian Reyes autumn 2010 runway show this February at the New York Fashion Week.

Oksana and I were busy creating our individual work, unbeknownst to one another, says Reyes. Zorianna (Founder of Zorya Fine Art) had the vision to see how our sensibilities might combine to produce something amazing. As usual, her instincts were right on.

A unique artifact weighing 2.5 tons was installed on the second floor of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.

Artist Oksana Mas presented her huge mosaic to the Sofia Kyivska National Museum. The mosaic, composed of fifteen thousand Easter eggs entitled Look into Eternity, is an enlarged copy of the Virgin Eleusa icon from the late 17th century, or, more precisely, a copy of the upper half of the face of the Virgin Mary. Mas told Weekly.ua that she had been searching for the proper eyes for the mosaic for a long time and found them in an icon by Lviv artist Ivan Rutkovych.

Mas intended to place her mosaic in an underground station, but eventually found a more suitable place for it. The artist emphasized that her work is displayed next to a mosaic created for the St. Sophia Cathedral by Byzantine masters. Noteworthy is the fact that this is a unique piece of art in Kievan Rus.

Creating mosaics used to be expensive and troublesome. For this reason, the secret of its creation in Kievan Rus was not known. Mas decided to revive the Byzantine mosaic tradition. She used fifteen thousand wooden eggs to create her masterpiece. Around 70 people from different regions of the country painted the eggs in their own unique way and covered them with a double layer of lacquer. The artist paid volunteers UAH 5-8 for each egg and spent about US $80,000 to create the mosaic. Today, her work adorns the second floor of the oldest temple in Kyiv constructed by Yaroslav the Wise in the 11th century. We can only hope that the brickwork of 11th century master artists can withstand the contemporary mosaic weighing 2.5 tons.

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On 9 June 2009, the Drive 9, (2008) work of art was sold at Sotheby's in London.

On June 9, Sotheby's House in London held an auction for which 13 contemporary Ukrainian artists competed for the first time, as did some of their Russian colleagues.

As a result, 9 of 18 Ukrainian paintings were sold. It is interesting to compare the estimated bidding prices with the amounts earned at the auction.