Large sculptural salon - Kiev residents have something to see

On September 12, the opening of the annual Great Sculpture Salon was held in the sunny Ukrainian capital. The organizer of this large-scale exhibition was the Mystetsky Arsenal, which gathered 60 contemporary sculptors on its territory. The exposition occupied not only the entire first floor, but some sculptures were also displayed in front of the entrance to the building of the art center.

About what awaits the visitors inside, as if hinted at by a giant gilded lotus flower floating in the fountain and metal sculptures created by the imagination of Rada Ralko, as well as a large iron apple from Dmitry Yves.

The key figure in the salon is the British sculptor Zadok Ben-David, whose installations are striking in scope and sophistication. The figures made of aluminum and steel are characterized by extreme smoothness and perfect shapes. The first installation is dedicated to the “Evolution of Man” and is a very detailed illustration to the textbooks on natural sciences written in the distant 19th century. The second installation, called "Black Field", is a colorful meadow on which the author placed 17 thousand carved flowers made of metal. Each piece is made so skillfully and in full compliance with the originals that it is easy to confuse them with real colors.

However, the grandeur of the ideas and the originality of the embodiment of the work of other sculptors do not lag behind the British. Visitors to the art center will be able to plunge into “parallel reality” by September 23 from such masters as Vlad Ralko, Vladimir Budnikov, Ekaterina Buchatskaya, Anatoly Rotar, Miroslav Wajd, Vladimir Bovkun, Viktor Sidorenko, Yegor Zigura, Mikhail Vertuozov, Vladislav Shcherbina, Nikolai Rapaya, Natalia Mudruk, Alexander Dyachenko and many others.

Eve Istr