On February 5-28, Pete-Art Gallery shows a personal exhibition of paintings by the Ukrainian-born American artist Max Vityk, an active figure in the artistic life (international exhibitions, art fairs), whose works won recognition all over the world. His paintings are among top lots of the leading Western auctions of modern art. A number of works were acquired by Ukrainian museums.
Max Vityk’s creation features mutual influence of two cultures – American and Ukrainian. «Critics describe Vityk’s style as abstract neo-expressionism, with Bacon and Pollock, his «Anglo-American teachers», seen through the familiar maze of the Ukrainian visual mythology». (No. 3 (71) MARCH 2013 | ANTIKVAR).
The exhibition at Pete-Art Gallery is a retrospective of the artist’s work over the past five years. It features more than a dozen pieces of different arts and techniques. On display are bright and grand, deep, colorful and expressive paintings «Summer Landscape» (2011), «Tibet» (2011), that gave an impetus for the Subsoil series, 2014. Furthermore, Ukrainian spectators will for the first time see works of the Fragments series, 2014. It is a creative, sometimes fanciful burst of the author’s artistic fantasy – a series of accidental elements, auxiliary images, born as he was working on the main painting, later completed and shaped through combination of lines, contours, colors, in fact on pieces of cardboard. Those images grow independent, giving rise to new, unexpected associations.
