The Veles Gallery of Lviv is hosting an exhibition of sculptures created by Honored Artist of Ukraine, famous Ukrainian sculptor Liubomyr Yaremchuk. It is unusual because it offers the spectator a chance to look at “small forms.”
The exhibition presents more than 30 works that, according to the author, convey goodness, beauty, and love and distract people from stressful situations, which Ukrainians are now living through. Meanwhile, the artist’s large sculptural works are now on display in the Zbarazh Castle in Ternopil region; they portray historical figures, including Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Mazepa, and Ivan Vyhovsky...
Famous Lviv art critic Roman Yatsiv praised these works and the artist himself: “Yaremchuk is a versatile artist, he has worked in painting, which is little known, but he was an interesting interpreter of postmodern line who took aesthetics of the Renaissance into account as well, having very thin, graceful lines and color range.
I remember these works of his from my student years, when he showed them only to chosen individuals made privy to his secrets... Why do I mention the fact? What he developed as a sculptor is an organic expression of that passion of his that stemmed from the knowledge of world art culture, including that of the Renaissance, and is effectively aimed at achieving great many mysteries of form and technique...
While working on large orders in monumental sculpture, he kept alive the desire to work on the intimate, chamber sculpture as well. Thus, these ideas accumulated in his workshop and waited for their time to come...”
And now this time has come. Spectators can now see small sculptures which indeed, according to the author, oppose “those torments that have been brought by the war with goodness, love, and hope.” “These works are very fresh,” Yaremchuk said, “and they are mostly marble, so the exhibition is called the ‘Marble String,’ and is accompanied by music.” Indeed, it seems to be “hidden” somewhere inside.
Yaremchuk has authored or co-authored over 100 monuments. For Leopolitans, the most essential of them are the monument to Mykhailo Hrushevsky, the gravestone compositions on the tombs of composers Volodymyr Ivasiuk and Stanislav Liudkevych at the Lychakiv Cemetery, the monument to Hetman Petro Sahaidachny in the village of Kulchytsi, and the statues of Our Lady erected on Khomiak Mountain, one of the highest peaks of the Ukrainian Carpathians.
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