Red Forest

Exhibition Red Forest featured more than 40 selected works by seven seminal Ukrainian artists of 1990s: Serhiy Bratkov, Olexander Gnylytsky, Olexander Roitburd, Arsen Savadov and Georgy Senchenko, Vasyl Tsagolov, Illia Chichkan.

Red Forest is about ten square kilometers of trees adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear station, which received the largest part of the release of radioactive dust at the time of the reactor’s explosion in 1986. In the context of the exhibition at the core of which were selected works from the Ukrainian collection of PinchukArtCentre, “Red Forest” is an engrossing metaphor and unifying symbolic character. This is a sign of shock, fracture of the situation, post the explosion and the permanent “Book of Changes”, Ukrainian contemporary art became its evident reflection.

Curator: Olexander Solovyov

Georgiy Senchenko
Sacral Landscape. Pieter Bruegel, 1988
oil on canvas
200 x 300 cm

Vasyl Tsagolov. Spoilage

Arsen Savadov
Kokto (5 works total), 2002
colour photographs
180 x 110 cm each

Alexander Gnilitskiy
JurassicFuture, 2009
oil on canvas
300 x 170 cm
185 cm in diameter

Alexander Gnilitskiy
Water Nymph, 2004
oil on canvas
200 x 165 cm

Alexander Gnilitskiy
JurassicFuture, 2009
oil on canvas
300 x 170 cm
185 cm in diameter

Ilya Chichkan
Sleeping Princes of Ukraine (8 works total), 1997
colour photographs
30 x 20 cm each

Ilya Chichkan
Atomic Love (5 works total), 2003
colour photographs
100 x 100 cm each

Ilya Chichkan
Atomic Love (5 works total), 2003
colour photographs
100 x 100 cm each

Vasiliy Tsagolov
Baba Yaga, 2003 and Kaschey, 2003
acrylic on canvas
200 x 300 cm

Arsen Savadov. Last Project

Serhiy Bratkov
Army Girls (7 works total), 2000
colour photographs
90 x 60 each

Alexander Roitburd
Ludwig (5 works total), 1992
oil on canvas
200 x 100 cm each

Alexander Roitburd
Girl in the Forest, 2004
oil on canvas
135 x 150 cm