The event took place at the National Kyiv Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve (the belfry of the Assumption Cathedral, first tier) in the framework of festivities dedicated to Mykola Hohol’s birthday anniversary, as well as the 185th anniversary of the publication of the Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, volume 1.
The exhibit of installation and photocopies of works by the renowned artist Serhii Yakutovych was dedicated to the bicentennial anniversary of the great Ukrainian, writer Mykola Hohol (Nikolai Gogol). As a reminder: the first presentation of the exhibit was held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (in the framework of the Hohol Week in UNESCO in April 2009). It took the artist five years to complete his cycle, which includes more than 80 drawings and more than 30 life-size dolls representing Hohol’s characters. Together they create a true Gogolian space.
The present exposition includes photocopies of pictures from the following series: Taras Bulba, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Myrhorod, Paradise Lost, Hohol’s Portraits, and installations on the themes of the great writer’s works.
The artist’s style is original and instantly recognizable. Yakutovych’s mastery of various styles of graphics (etching in particular) is honed to perfection. Starting from his youth, Yakutovych was interested in creating epic cycles of illustrations to well-known works of world and domestic literature. Over the recent years a number of books with illustrations by Yakutovych have been published, which became a notable part of national culture and gained a wide recognition among the connoisseurs of the book art both in Ukraine and abroad.
During the opening of the exhibit, the students of the National Academy of Managerial Staff in Culture and Arts will perform the works by Taras Shevchenko, Dmytro Pavlychko, Lina Kostenko, Borys Oliinyk, Ivan Drach, and Stanislav Repiakh dedicated to Hohol.
