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Mas at Sothby's in London

On 9 June 2009, the Drive 9, (2008) work of art was sold at Sotheby's in London for 33.000 pounds.

Capital Group Art Foundation

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.

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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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feb 17, 2010

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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 look into eternity

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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Sotheby's

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.