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<p align="justify"><span style="font-weight: bold;">On May 16, 2009, the
presentation of curator projects – finalists of the “Art a priori:
Contemporary Stories” International Curator Project Contest announced
by the EIDOS Arts Development Foundation in autumn 2008 – will start
in the museums of Ukraine. </span>More than 50 applications from different
parts of Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Moldova, Poland and Russia were
submitted to the contest. International judges with the Head Judge,
Yara Bubnova, selected 12 projects for further realization. Participants’
projects offer new perspectives on the history of Ukrainian art and
represent contemporary art practices next to the masterpieces of traditional
art from the collections of the national art museums of different Ukrainian
cities. </p>
<p>The presentation of the projects was
preceded with serious preparation of both young curators and contest
administrators. The key event at this stage was the workshop for the
contestants organized by the EIDOS Foundation. The invited experts,
Yara Bubnova and Kateryna Diogot, made many participants rethink some
aspects of the projects with their stern, yet constructive commentaries.
<br></p>
<p>The contest projects help the admirers
of the traditional artistic heritage discover contemporary art and invite
the permanent museum visitors to the dialogue. The young curators are
working with the local context, local museum collections, that will
be presented in unexpected new ways in the contest projects. <br></p>
<p>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">“A Thing in Itself”</span> project
under the curatorship of Olena Afanasyeva and Marina Plugnyk-Hlagyr
will be presented on May 16, the “Museum Night. It will be realized
in an unusual location – O. Bleschunov Odessa Municipal Museum of
Private Collections, which exhibits a great amount of miscellaneous
objects. The aim of the new exposition is to renew the spectator’s
feeling of value and importance of a separate object by accenting the
visitors’ attention on an only object in each museum hall. During
the project presentation young actors of the Meyerhold Herson Municipal
Theatre will show a series of plastic performances that will be video
and photo-documented and demonstrated in the museum during the following
days. <br></p>
<p>On <span style="font-weight: bold;">May 18</span> the International Museum
Day is celebrated all over the World. This very day a multidimensional
project <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Incompatible Compatibility”</span> by Maryna Koneva and Kateryna
Mariushkina starts in the Kharkiv Literary Museum. The project, except
for the exposition in the Literary Museum includes a series of lectures,
video showings, literary actions and other events. The curators investigated
the connections between the situation in the arts at the beginning of
the 20<sup>th</sup> century, represented in the exposition with the
works of Borys Kosarev, and the beginning of the 21<sup>st</sup> century
(works of Artem Volokintin and Roman Minin). To underline the contemporary
and traditional art symbiosis actions with participation of Sergiy Gadan
(a separate hall of the museum is dedicated to his life and works),
SuchUkrLit representatives and “Sobaky u Kosmosi” (“Dogs in the
Space”) band are planned at the Literary Museum. <br></p>
<p>In three days, on <span style="font-weight: bold;">May 21</span>, one more
project will be presented in Kharkiv. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">“New Story”</span> by the SOSka
group promises to “rethink the traditional forms of museum exposition”
using the example of Kharkiv Art Museum by zoning the exposition space
and bringing performance into it. The project involves artists David
Ter-Oganian, Vladimir Logutov, Sebastian Moldovan, Lucia Nimtsova, Anatoliy
Bielov, Stas Voliazlovskiy, SOSka group and others, whose works will
intervene into the museum space, commenting on its permanent exposition.
The principle of the project composition can be divided into two blocks:
first – genre analogies and plot contraposition and second – broadening
of the traditional media boundaries. Next to the classic landscape paintings
by A. Kuindzhi static video-landscapes by V. Logutov will be demonstrated
in the museum permanent ÷exposition space. Lucia Nimtsova social video
“Exercises”, depicting three elderly women in the process of doing
physical exercise, is in tune with the realistic works of S. Prokhorov,
particularly, his “Friends” canvas. The genre of battle painting
is represented in the works of I. Repin, I. Miasoyedov, G. Semigradskiy
and photo and video-works by the SOSka group shot during teenage rock-concerts
and night club parties. The minimalist graphics “Plants” by V. Kohan
is contrasted with the rich and pompous “Weeds” by M. Berkos. <br></p>
<p>On <span style="font-weight: bold;">June 10</span> the first project in the
capital – <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Micro Art 1:10”</span> by the “Strupek” group from Krakow
and Alina Zazymko will be presented. “Micro Art” is art in the 1:10
scale. The “Strupek” group proposes to create micro galleries, miniature
copies of the existing museums. Models of the chosen halls, placed in
the outskirts of the city and its centre, promote museum installations
in places where traditional information about them does not reach. Project
“Micro Art 1:10” will be presented in Kyiv as a miniature of several
halls of Kyiv Russian Museum in the “Knyharnia Ye” bookstore space. <br></p>
<p>Project <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Art Labyrinth”</span> under the
curatorship of Victoria Danyliuk will be presented on <span style="font-weight: bold;">June 19</span> in Sevastopol.
It pictures contemporary art as a labyrinth. Having found their ways
into the labyrinth, artists, curators and spectators stay there forever,
because they consciously don’t seek a way out: the labyrinth gradually
draws them in, becoming a part of their lives. The exposition will take
place in M. Kroshytsky Art Museum of Sevastopol, where the very labyrinth
will be created. Works by young Sevastopol artists created from transparent
materials, through which the museum exhibit items that inspired the
authors will be seen, will be presented. <br></p>
<p>By <span style="font-weight: bold;">the</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">end of September</span> five more projects
will have been presented, among which <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Patriotism. Excursion” by
REP in Lviv</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Audiopictures” by Lioha Garikovych in Poltava</span>, a seven
hours long performance in the National Museum under the curatorship
of Larysa Babiy, <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Artistic Studies in the Vyshnevetsky Palace”</span>,
that will turn the Vyshnevetsky Palace in Ternopil region into a place
for young artisits’ experiments, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Little Stories”</span> project
in the National Museum of Toys. <br></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">In October 2009 EIDOS Foundation will
hold a conference featuring international experts.</span> During the conference
the results of “Art a priori: Contemporary Stories” International
Curator PROJECT Contest will be summed up and a catalogue featuring
all of the projects will be presented. </p></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>EIDOS Arts Development Foundation<br>5 Spaska St., of.30<br>Kyiv 04071<br>t/f +38 044 219 17 89<br>GSM +38 067 503 23 69<br><a href="http://www.eidosfund.org">www.eidosfund.org</a><br>
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