On 1 November, names of the winners of the youth arts festival Feldman Art Park have been announced in three nominations– painting, graphics and sculpture.
The winners are: Bohdan Tomashevskyi from Kyiv (sculpture, the work ‘Portrait of the City’), Ruslan Tremba from Uzhgorod (painting, the work ‘Being Present. Morning. Day. Evening’), and a Kyiv-based author Sergei Zapadnia (graphics, a work from the series ‘Bridges’).
Artists and sculptors received grants founded by the International Charitable Organization ‘Oleksandr Feldman Fund’ for traineeship at exclusive European art residences.
It should be reminded that a competition for young Ukrainian artists and sculptors was announced within the framework of the cultural and educational festival Feldman Art Park, which took place from 2 October to 30 October 2015 in Kharkiv. The selection of participants started on 20 August and lasted until 20 September. The art competition was attended by over a thousand authors from all over Ukraine less than 35 years of age in three categories: painting, graphics and sculpture. By results of the selection procedure, 200 works of art were exhibited in Feldman Art Park.
Finalists of the arts festival were chosen by a reputable jury. The judges included Camelia Esmaili – a supervisor, art advisor and the founder of l’Atelier Camelia, a consulting company working with private collections. Besides Camelia Esmaili the Feldman Art Park panel of judges also featured Mark Reiner, a London gallery owner and a big collector of Eastern European art, Tatiana Tumasian, a supervisor, a gallery owner and the director of Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, and Yevgeniy Karas, one of the most influential art figures in Ukraine and the director of Karas gallery.
‘The festival will become an annual celebration of the young Ukrainian art. We intend to support regularly the youth who create the cultural heritage of our country. We will also popularize the universal human values shown in works of art, both in Ukraine and in the world,’ remarked Oleksandr Feldman, art patron and founder of the homonymous charitable fund.
‘Presence of such honorary judges indicates the highest level of the festival. I believe that in the next year the circle of participants and the program of events at Feldman Art Park will be extended considerably,’ emphasized Denis Belkevich, the director of Red Art Galleries.
It should be recalled that the project Feldman Art Park is implemented in the territory of FELDMAN ECOPARK, the total area of which makes 140.5 hectares. The author of this idea and originator of the arts festival is the International Charitable Oleksandr Feldman Fund. The large-scale art fair was organized by the British company Red Art Galleries.
Reference on the International Charitable Fund of Oleksandr Feldman:
The International Charitable Fund of Oleksandr Feldman was founded in 1997. This is one of the largest charitable organizations in Ukraine. For the time of its existence, it spent about $15 million on charity. The Fund’s mission is to take care of the young generation, implement social programs and projects for socially vulnerable parts of society, encourage spiritual development of the Ukrainian people, preserve historical and cultural heritage of the country, and promote tolerance in our society.
