June 1 – 23
Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art
Curator – Anatoliy Dymchuk
Yuriy Yegorov Fund in collaboration with the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art presents an exhibition dedicated to the Odesa nonconformist movement. The exhibition is held within the festival Odesa classics.
Nonconformism of the 70’s – 80’s of the ХХ century is one of the most important phenomena in the artistic life of Odesa. One of the first public informal exhibitions in the Soviet Union is associated with this group of artists. We are talking about the action Sychyk + Khrushchyk, which took place in the center of Odesa , which took place in the center of Odesa in 1967. A series of apartment exhibitions organized by nonconformists during the 1970s became an important step in the development of freedom of speech during the late Soviet period.
Despite the opposition to official Soviet art, which was a commonplace for many Ukrainian artists of the time, the work by Odesa nonconformists is marked by a special lyricism, a departure from direct political statements and appeal to universal values. According to researchers, the artists from Odesa are characterized by a combination of innovation with a return to the origins, in particular to the icon-painting tradition and the achievements of the Odesa Society of South Russian Artists.
Works from private collections and funds of the Museum of the Odesa Modern Art and Odesa State Literature Museum will be presented in five halls of Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art. The project will include works by Olexandr Anufriev, Valeriy Basanets, Oleg Voloshynov, Yuriy Yegorov, Viktor Maryniuk, Yevgen Rachmanin, Volodymyr Strelnikov, Valentyn Khrushch, Anatoliy Shopin, Lyudmyla Yastreb and others. The show will feature the iconic works of nonconformists of the period of apartment exhibitions, as well as their late and contemporary works.
