Kyiv’s art community does not need to be reminded of who Tetiana Kalyta is. She has been repeatedly exhibiting almost all the best painters of Kyiv. The Kalyta Art Club gallery is now a true center of high-class art.
Yet past autumn, after many years of successful work in Pechersk, the gallery had to look for new premises. It is clear now that the Art Club’s new home is not worse, or is even better, than the previous one. Since past October, the gallery has been situated on Malopidvalna Street, not far from Independence Square, in two spacious halls that are suitable for not only exhibits, but also concerts. The first exposition was “Topos,” a selection of the canvases the Kyiv-based classic Yurii Khymych painted during his 1968 sojourn in Finland.
Kalyta Art Club is now hosting “Landscape,” a solo exhibit of Kateryna Kosianenko. It is a series of works created on the basis of life sketches made in 2004-16. The location was the Dnieper’s right bank, left-bank plains, the Kaniv reservoir and hills. These works look noticeably weaker than the ones usually exhibited in the gallery: while the colors of Weisberg, Pryduvalova, Akhra, and Apollonov – Kalyta’s customary authors – show the depth of senses, a very rich play of meanings, witticism, and fantasy, Kosianenko mostly remains on the surface and at the mercy of much more monotonous techniques.
A WELL, 2016
But still “Landscape” does not in general diminish the good name of Kalyta’s gallery. No matter whether the selection of the pictured hanging on the Art Club’s walls is weaker or stronger, the spectators visiting the Malopidvalna premises will always know that they will see a feast of color, a priceless gift in our rather colorless time.
The “Landscape” exhibit will remain open until February 8. The next thing Kalyta Art Club gallery is going to show is a solo exhibit of Borys Kohan.
