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

Vasyl Tsagolov. Spoilage, from the series “Ukrainian X-Files”, 2003
oil on canvas

Arsen Savadov. From the series Kokto, 2002
colour photographs

Oleksandr Hnylytskyi. Untitled, from the series Jurassic Future, 2009
oil on canvas

Oleksandr Hnylytskyi. Water Nymph, 2004
oil on canvas

Oleksandr Hnylytskyi. Untitled, from the series Jurassic Future, 2009
oil on canvas

Illia Chichkan. Sleeping Princes of Ukraine, 1997
colour photographs

Illia Chichkan. From the series Atomic Love, 2003
colour photographs

Illia Chichkan. From the series Atomic Love, 2003
colour photographs

Vasyl Tsagolov. Koschiy and Baba Yaga, from the series “Phantoms of Fear”, 2003
acrylic on canvas

Arsen Savadov. From the series Last Project, 2002
colour photographs

Serhiy Bratkov
From the series Army Girls, 2000
colour photographs

Oleksandr Roitburd
From the series Ludwig, 1992
oil on canvas

Oleksandr Roitburd
Girl in the Forest, 2004
oil on canvas