Kateryna Kosjanenko: Anthology
08.02.2007 — 11.03.2007

100th anniversary of autumn’s Paris salon
by Kateryna Kosjanenko

Kiev, February 8, 2007 – The gallery “Collection” openss a personal painting exhibition of a young and already acknowledged painter, Kateryna Kosjanenko. Her works are combined with baroque Ukrainian icon-painting, figures of secular renaissance European canvases, and folk motives.

In 2003 the painter won anniversary, 100 Paris Autumn Salon. After this, one of the best galleries in Paris, Galerie Celine, made a personal exhibition of Kateryna. The next year, the painter was awarded by the President of Ukraine.

The exhibition “Anthology” will introduce the best 20 paintings from the series “Calendar” and “Shadows of Forgotten Forefathers”. All those series will be introduced at the first time, including the canvass “Pokrova” (The Intersession), which was awarded 1st place out of 1000 of contenders of a Paris salon.

At the same time, the paintings of Kateryna Kosjanenko are a postmodern phenomena, where in more detailed consideration everything is found to be a skillful game. Here in tradition is hiding an intellectual provocation. From the first glance, the “Ethnic” and “Authentic” painting series brings inside itself many “reefs”, allusions and quotations from historical European painting. They play with a classic of world art, changing images, and interiors by places, and emphasize the depth of European tradition with the help from Ukrainian. But anyway…as said one of the most remarkable curators of the modern art Gerald Zeheman: “Without local there can not be something global”.

The exhibition “Antology” lasts until March, 15.

Catalog is available.