The former Soviet armory Mystetsky Arsenal hosted an international art fair Art-Kyiv on Nov. 8 – 14. Over 30 galleries, both homegrown and foreign, presented their craft for commercial or just visual consumption.
Organizers say that some 45,000 people attended the grand exhibition, where street art, video installations and films were high on the program.
It was one of those rare occasions when taking pictures of presented art works was allowed.
Granted this freedom, visitors went wild taking pictures of everything, from a five-meter high sculpture of world heavyweight boxing champion Volodymyr Klitschko to the portrait of Napoleon with a monkey face.
Painting of Napoleon Bonaparte with a monkey face comes from Illya Chichkan’s series of famous people painted as monkeys.
A sculpture of a hanging man by Viktor Sydorenko arrives from the French Albert Benamou gallery.
Installation ‘Incubus’ from St. Petersburg.
Children enjoy drawing on special plazma screens installed around the museum.
A little girl poses in front of Arsen Zavadov’s paining.
Boxer Volodymyr Klitchko is five meters tall in sculptor Oleksandr Oleksiyiv’s imagination.
Sculpture ‘Alice’ by Oleksandr Oleksiyiv refers to things odd and dreamy in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ novel.
Photos: Natalia Kravchuk
