Vasiliy Sad Explained

Birth Place:Velyki Telkovychi, Rivne oblast
Education:Grekov Odesa Art school
Nationality:Ukrainian
Movement:abstract art

Vasiliy (Vasily) Sad (born in 1948) is a Ukrainian abstract painter. He has been an active member "apartment exhibitions" in Odesa, which defended alternative forms of art against the Socialist Realism endorsed by the Soviet Union.[1] [2]

Early artistic career

Born in the Velyki Telkovychi village (Rivne oblast) in Ukraine in 1948, Vasiliy Sad moved to Odesa where he then graduated from the Grekov College of Arts in 1977. Shortly after his graduation he joined the "Mamai" group,[3] a collective of non-conformist abstract painters named after Ukraine's national hero. From the early 1970s, the members of the group took an active part in the dissident Odessa Group. They displayed their art on the occasion of illegal "apartment exhibitions" in Odesa and Moscow, as they championed Soviet Nonconformist Art in the Ukraine.[4] [5]

Collections and exhibitions

Works by Vasily Sad are in art collections of the National Art Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine); the Museum of Modern Art (Kyiv, Ukraine); the Khmelnitsky Museum of Modern Ukrainian art, Odesa Museum of Modern Art , Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art and international art collections in America, Canada, the UK, Italy, Monaco, UAE, Russia and Ukraine. Works by Vasily Sad have been sold at Phillips auction house, MacDougalls's Auction http://www.macdougallauction.com/0611ALL.pdf, Zurich International Contemporary Art Fair (Switzerland), Edinburgh Art Fair (Scotland) and Indian Art Summit (Delhi).

In the 1970s Odesa nonconformist artists among whom was Vasily Sad took an active part in the unofficial, so called “apartment exhibitions”.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: MiroHost - Крупнейший хостинг-провайдер в Украине . 2022-07-24 . 2018-05-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180514104916/http://artelia-gallery.com/ . dead .
  2. Web site: Vasiliy (Vasily) Sad . ArtSlant . 2011-02-27 . 2011-03-31.
  3. Web site: Выставка "творческое объединение Мамай" - расписание, рецензия, фотография . Today.od.ua . 2011-03-31.
  4. Web site: artodessa.com . Art of Odessa Gallery of Fine Paintings For Sale Online . Artodessa.com . 2004-06-07 . 2011-03-31.
  5. Web site: russianartgallery.com . Odessa Group . Russian Art Gallery . 2011-03-31.