icons \ objects
Deb Covell [UK], Don Voisine [US], Tiberiy Szilvashi [UA], Kazimir Malevich [UA]*.
Curated by Serhiy Popov [UA].
'icons \ objects' is the first exhibition of KNO.lab project series, which took place in the Mikhail Bulgakov Museum in Kyiv.
The concept for the series of experimental exhibitions is a work with "forces" which form a visual space, with "elements" of the space, and studying of their boundary situations. Visual production takes place on the territory where "symbolic" meets with pre-language; aesthetic with social; "visible" meets with a viewer. What the conditions needed for the appearance of artwork? Where the boundaries of real and imaginary? Between emptiness and Object? Between an imprint and Image? Can the image exist in the works of non-objective art, if in such works the image can only appear in its pre-linguistic form? Non-objective art with its centennial history and its contemporary forms such as "reductive art" and "post-formalism" have become a visual language with a wide range of artistic forms, in which the image as a notion and its function is under the question, as and all other categories of visuality. KNO.lab program is a continuation of work that have begun five years ago by the artistic group Alliance 22.
* - typewriting papers of Kasimir Malevich's article "Architecture, Easel painting, Sculpture" from the private archive of M. Kropivnitsky. We express our gratitude to the Kropivnitsky family for providing archival material.
Opening January 22nd, 6-8 pm, 2018.
On view through February 20th, 2018.
Open hours: 10am–6pm. Closed - Wednesdays.
Mikhail Bulgakov museum
Andreevskiy Descent, 13
Kiev, Ukraine.
[Partners]
Mikhail Bulgakov museum [Kyiv], Malevich Institute [Kyiv], Publishing House "RODOVID" [Kyiv]
All photos ©KNO
Exhibition views.
The typewriting papers of Kasimir Malevich's article "Architecture, Easel painting, Sculpture" from the private archive of M. Kropivnitsky.
Don Voisine (USA)
"Dubh - Geal"
oil on wood, 61 x 30.5 cm
2016
Don Voisine (USA)
"Dubh - Geal"
oil on wood, 61 x 30.5 cm
2016
Deb Covell (UK)
NEW CROSS
mdf, 70x70cm
2017
Deb Covell (UK)
NEW CROSS
mdf, 70x70cm
2017
Deb Covell (UK) and Tiberiy Szilvashi (UA)
Tiberiy Szilvashi (UA)
untitled
oil, paper, 40x30 cm.
2016