Grygoriy Shyshko
dal 15/11/2005 al 26/11/2005
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15/11/2005
Grygoriy Shyshko
Danusha Fine Arts, London
The artist presents his industrial landscapes; the pricipal subjetct is the mine: a chorus that presides, in all seasons and every time of day, as a constant against a personal and national background of alarming fluctuation.
Colour of Ore
Launch of the book “Colour of Ore†at The Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, Mayfair on 16th November with music, songs and vodka will open 10 days of Ukrainian culture to be held at Dover Street, centring on the exhibition: The Colour of Ore: paintings by Grygoriy Shyshko ( 1923 – 1994).
The art of the prodigiously talented Grygoriy Shyshko first exploded onto
the London scene in 1993. Eminent collectors, professors and writers,
including Evening Standard critic, Brian Sewell, have been riveted to
Ukrainian art circles ever since.
The Air Gallery exhibition will be the
first ever showing of Shyshko's industrial landscapes, a virtuoso series
never seen during the artist's lifetime.
Grygoriy Shyshko was born in 1953
in village Kostromka, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine graduated from Odessa
Art College in 1953 and joined the Kryvyi Rih Union of Artists with whom he
has first exhibited locally, regionally and nationally in 1954. His
paintings have been exhibited in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Nigeria
and Ireland since 1993 with nine solo shows, the most important one being
at The Mall Galleries, London, 2001.
The full range of his prolific series
of works set in the iron ore mines at Kryvyi Rih. The mine is a chorus that
presides, in all seasons and every time of day, as a constant against a
personal and national background of alarming fluctuation. Over the decades,
that mine has been for Grygoriy Shyshko the subject of his most original
and committed pictures' Shyshko has made a major and very moving study of
the poetry found at the heart of ugliness. In exploring his theme, he was
creating modernism of his own 'Colour of Ore' by Ann Kodicek, Art Critic
& Writer, London, 2005.
Shyshko's own work lives on to delight the viewer with its singing colour,
evocative theme, intriguing viewpoint and invitation to explore a world of
memory and imagination. Despite, or perhaps even because of his survival of
personal hardship and politically difficult times his art seems to draw our
attention to the beauty to be found in the conventional unbeautiful the
spoilt heap, the factory furnace, the landscape of exploitative industry
as well as within the parameters of the picturesque, 'Borderlands' by Dr.
Pat Simpson, Senior Arts Lecturer, Hertfordshire University,
2000.
Image: Road to the mine
Opening: November 16 th
Danusha Fine Arts
30 Warrington Crescent - London