"CUTOUT AGAIN" - CUTOUT COLLECTION, 2022
Curators: Annete Sagal, Katya Syta, and Olha Syta,
Kyiv, Ukraine
ABOUT THE EVENT
“This is the first exhibition of our project in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the aggressor country into our territories. We were forced to suspend our activities at home and concentrate on exhibitions abroad. However, it's time to go home and resume collage activity!
At the exhibition «CUTOUT AGAIN!» we decided to show works of art from our collection, namely International Artists that were presented at the first collage festival in the summer of 2021 and the works of residents of the Collage Studio in Kyiv. With this, we want to show that although the war has made adjustments to our project planning, we do not stop and continue to create and promote the art of collage.
Exhibition CUTOUT AGAIN! told more about the project: what it was like at the beginning, what it is now and what vector it has for the future
Presented artists:
Pim van Huiseling (Netherlands), Jake Kennedy (Great Britain), Clive Knights (Portland, USA), Morgan Jesse Lappin (New York, USA), Simão Matos (Spain), Bea Montero (Spain), Julia Volonts (Latvia).
Patricia Demba (Ukraine/Germany), Valeria Miroshnikova (Ukraine), Viktoria Ostrenko (Ukraine), Natalia Okhman (Ukraine), Ziu Poberezhniuk (Ukraine), Annete Sagal (Ukraine), Katya Syta (Ukraine), Maria Shapranova (Ukraine).
The exhibition was held in the cozy bookstore «Knyzhkovy Lev», which recently opened on Podil, in Kyiv.
Thank you very much for your hospitality!”
Curators: Annete Sagal, Katya Syta, Olga Syta.
Co-curator: Nadia Hart.”
Text by Annete Sagal
SIMAO MATOS (PORTUGAL - SPAIN) «EPHEMERAL» series
The works presented in the series EPHEMERAL aim to materialize an analogy between nature and its constant changes. Is fragility really a weakness? Perhaps not. Viewing art as something that is not eternal is akin to contemplating nature and its ability to change over time. Every transformation possesses its own beauty, much like nature and art.
For the EPHEMERA series, the material used was: Decorative Paper used for binding magazines from the ’40s and ’50s and Black Watercolour Paper 360 g/m2.”
