среда, 19 декабря 2018 year

Fantastic World of Carpets and Ceramics: Exhibition “Near” Opens in AVEC Gallery

The exhibition “Near” will be opened in the AVEC Gallery on December 20, at 6 p.m. (70, Sumska Str.). Two visual arts masters – Nadiia Hadzevych and Petro Mos – will present to the audience their works – carpets and ceramics. According to the organizers, textile and decorative ceramic panels go perfectly together.

“They supplement each other and create in one exposition space the feeling of holiday and hominess,” AVEC Gallery’s director Olena Pozdniakova told.

Nadiia Hadzevych devoted herself to decorative carpet weaving long time ago: her works adorn the administrative buildings and galleries in Kyiv and Kharkiv, they are stored in private collections in Ukraine and abroad. The carpets exhibited at the AVEC Gallery are the part of collection titled “Heritage.”

Ceramics by Petro Mos was exhibited many times in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv, Riga, and Prague. His works may be found in Kharkiv Art Museum, Lviv National Art Gallery, Kyiv’s Museum of Modern Art, and in private collections in Ukraine and Europe. The exhibition “Near” presents sculptures and decorative panels made in distinctive author’s manner with the use of techniques of pottery, modeling, engobe, restorative glazing.

“Two masters with high professional skills created a fantastic world with folklore and biblical images, mythological creatures and fairy-tale animals. And by embodying it in absolutely material, household items made of clay and cotton, they made it possible for us to feel that they are near,” Olena Pozdniakova explained the idea of the exhibition “Near.”

The exhibition “Near” at the AVEC Gallery will be open till January 20, 2019. Working hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The entrance is free!