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(Courtesy image) British Council in Kyiv presents graphic works of famed British sculptors from its private collection at the exhibition “Stone, Scissors, Paper” at the Bottega gallery.

The exposition features the works dating from the 1950s, some of them to be on display for the first time ever. The exhibition offers a display of various processes available to sculptors such as screen printing, which creates a poster-like finish and produces multiple exact copies, and etching, that is a much more unpredictable technique, as the restul is only seen when the paper is lifted from the printing table. The graphics of Henry Moore (1898) and Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) are considered to be the core of the exhibition, since they generated a great number of prints.

Moore’s represented by two lithographs produced late in his career. The earliest works of the show are those by Paolozzi, an artist who was at the center of “explosion” of printmaking in Great Britain in 1960s. The graphics by Anish Kapoor are interesting in the way they affect viewer’s perception of form and space.

Tracey Emin produces monoprints, which she draws right on the printing plate, offering a unique record of her ideas and feelings. Gilbert and George created a series of postcards, featuring images of the two artists themselves posing in different settings as well as poems or limericks on the other side. Anya Galaccio’s prints reflect her interest in natural forms and decay. Other artists presented at the exhibition include David Shrigley, Mike Nelson and even the best-selling provocateur Damien Hirst.

Bottega (22B Mykhaylivska). March 19-30.