Three dozen Modernist paintings left Kyiv for Madrid on November 15th, a trip which coincided with one of the war’s heaviest missile strikes
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskBohomazov, who taught at the Kyiv Institute of Art, had absorbed all the European vanguards, from Cubism to Expressionism, before developing his own visual language. His painting was to be both apogee and requiem for a remarkable artistic flowering in Ukraine in the first three decades of the 20th century, a burst of creativity that is celebrated in this exhibition.
came from Kyiv but worked mainly in Russia. Still, most of the artists represented will be new to the public in the West. As well as Bohomazov they include Aleksandra Ekster, Anatol Petrytsky, Vadym Meller, who worked on costume designs for the theatre, and Mykhailo Boychuk, who founded a movement of Byzantine Revivalism.
Outside interest in their work revived in the 1960s. But “Russia appropriated their names”, says Maryna Drobotiuk, the chief curator at the National Art Museum. Independent Ukraine has reclaimed them—yet now their work is once again under threat. These paintings, loaded on two trucks, left Kyiv on November 15th, a trip coinciding, as it turned out, with one of the war’s heaviest missile strikes. They were held up at the Polish border for 12 hours after a stray missile landed on the other side.
It has two aims. One is to showcase the richness of Ukrainian culture. “This exhibition will tell us what Russia is trying to,” Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said in a video message recorded for the opening. The second is to keep the works safe until the violence comes to an end. The show will travel to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and then, if necessary, elsewhere.the Prado’s most prized works were crated up and dispatched by truck, dodging air raids, to Switzerland.
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