Orest Zaborskyi
Orest Zaborskyi is a modernist artist, born in 1947 in Ivano-Frankivsk (former Stanislav). He studied at the Odesa Art School and the Lviv Polygraphic Institute. He worked as a book illustrator and a drawing teacher at an art school for children. He taught many artists, including those who formed the artistic core of the “Stanislav phenomenon”: Anatolii Zvizynskyi, Rostyslav Koterlin, Volodymyr Mulyk, and Yaroslav Yanovskyi. Orest Zaborsky’s first large-scale solo show took place in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1986. However, some of the works were not exhibited due to censorship. In his practice, Zaborskyi depicts many everyday scenes and reminisces on the classical techniques of modernist styles.
Dancing
1970,
painting
Almost all of Orest Zaborsky’s narrative paintings are based on real-life stories and sketches from nature. One of the maestro’s best paintings, Dancing (1970), is a dynamic, exuberant story about youthful evenings in the House of Officers and portrays friends and colleagues, melodies, and rhythms of the life at that time – the author’s best years. The chaotic multi-figure composition without an expressive semantic center is painted passionately, temperamentally, with bold brush strokes. Additional expression is achieved through the unnatural twisting of the bodies, heads, hand gestures, and turns of the legs of the depicted persons. The artist-participant of the action admires youth, the energy that spills out of young bodies, and the desires that overwhelm naive, romantic souls.
Asortymentna kimnata
October 7–October 30
On The Periphery Of War
Curated by Alona Karavai, Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk, Anton Usanov
