The exposition consists of the artist’s 25 works as well as the Ukrainian ceramic articles now kept at the depositary of the Directorate of Ukraine’s Art Exhibitions in Kyiv.
Maria Prymachenko’s masterpieces were last displayed at the Vinnytsia Local History Museum in 2004. Those were a few pictures from the collection of the Ukrainian Museum of Decorative and Applied Art. Now it is the first time a full-scale exhibit of Prymachenko’s oeuvres is staged in our city. Vinnytsia residents have a good chance to feast their eyes on the Ukrainian artist’s works that have been very successfully exhibited in France, Canada, Poland, Russia, and Germany.
“Thanks to cooperation with the Directorate of Ukraine’s Art Exhibitions, we have brought in Maria Prymachenko’s artworks. Each of them is a masterpiece of naive painting. They seem to be grapes of the emotional impressions of fairytales, legends, and real life,” says Tetiana ZHURUNOVA, head of the museum’s exhibition sector. “The exhibit allows art lovers to touch the clear springs of Prymachenko’s inspiration and young people to get acquainted with the original oeuvres of a Ukrainian genius.”
In addition to Prymachenko’s works, the show displays ceramic articles made by Opishnia potters. Fancy dishes in the shape of stylized animals – lions, rams, and bulls – were made by such well-known masters as Mykhailo Kyrtysh and Vasyl Omelianenko, and small-size sculptures by Nastasia Bilyk-Poshyvailo. Among the items that draw attention is the composition “Cossack Mamai” by Hryhorii Denysenko from the Kyiv region. Cossacks were usually painted on canvases and boxes, but the potter decided to reproduce the image of Mamai in clay – it is a unique and perhaps the first phenomenon of this kind.
The exhibit “Fairylike World” at the Vinnytsia Local History Museum will remain open until March 3.
P.S. Kyiv’s Mystetsky Arsenal is going to show a retrospective, “Maria Prymachenko: Immensity,” from February 9 until March 13. The exposition will comprise over 300 works by the outstanding artist from the collection of the National Folk Decorative Art Museum. The opening ceremony will see film director Oleksandr Dirdovsky present a video installation based on Maria Prymachenko’s pictures, which depict the picturesque landscapes of her native Polissia.
