Hall №3
TIME’S TELLING
WORKS OF THE 1950S-2020S
12 August 2021 - 10 January 2022

We invite you to the opening of Olexandr Dubovyk’s solo exhibition “Reflections of Time” (works of the 1950s-2020s) dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence and the artist’s 90th birthday, which will take place on August 12 at 17:00 in the presence of the artist and his wife Iryna Dubovyk at the Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum.

OLEKSANDR DUBOVYK: “Life is energy. The plane of a painting is a magnetic field that contains a powerful energy. The energy of hopelessness and joy moves the inner world of a person. A painting is a confession. It is a metaphor addressed to the outside world on the threshold of eternal “nothing”. For Camus, simple truths are those that you recognize last. For postmodernism, simple truths are the first to be recognized. This is the path of all previous generations, a return to the essence. That’s why postmodernism has many faces. It is a hand outstretched for dialog. It is a constant meeting.”

TETIANA KARA-VASYLIEVA, Doctor of Art History, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine: “Oleksandr Dubovyk is an outstanding Ukrainian artist, a living classic of contemporary art. He is a man of broad encyclopedic knowledge and deep European education, the author of numerous international and Ukrainian exhibitions, each of which is a significant event in the cultural life of Ukraine. Oleksandr Dubovyk’s works are filled with deep philosophical meaning, they are multifaceted, symbolic and deeply metaphorical. Complex multifaceted works of the artist can be understood and come closer to their comprehension only by showing associative thinking. The artist’s works are complex constructions of hypertext with reminiscences, quotes from long-ago civilizations, cultures of antiquity, the Renaissance, and the Baroque, which live in our subconscious and come back to us in a new form, a new reading.”

OLEKSII TYTARENKO, art critic, curator of contemporary art: “Oleksandr Dubovyk started working with abstraction in the late 1960s. At that time, many people dabbled in it, but he was one of those who did not dabble, but built his cosmogony for years and decades. He almost never exhibited before Perestroika. Cosmogony correlated not with the changing society, but with the Absolute – there was no point in wasting time on trifles.”

Zoya CHEHUSOVA, academic secretary of the Ukrainian section of the International Association of Art Critics, AISA: “Oleksandr Dubovyk is one of a small cohort of honest Sixties artists who kept their conscience as artists throughout the unbearable hard times of stagnation. Dubovyk’s works have practically never appeared at exhibitions in the past decades. Most of his plastic ideas could not break through the fetters of ideological and aesthetic prohibitions that blocked the artistic movement of the 1970s and 1980s, remaining within the walls of his quiet, secluded studio located on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. It was only in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when artistic thought in Ukraine went beyond the borders that had been unshakable for many years, illuminating previously unauthorized and inaccessible underground art, that we finally got to know this remarkable master.”