Alexander Dubovik
Alexander Dubovik (Ukrainian: Дубовик Олександр Михайлович; born 1 August 1931, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian artist and theorist who works in painting, graphics, and monumental-decorative art. He graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (1957, National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture). Teachers including S. Grigor'ev, G. Titov and M. Khmelko.[vague] The Academy of Arts of the USSR (1965).[vague] He has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1958.[1] He principally achieved recognition in the 1970s with avant-garde works.[2] Dubovik comes from a generation of neo-avant-garde artists who produced and developed revolutionary ideas despite having to function under and reluctantly collaborate with a totalitarian regime.
Dubovik was a renegade artist of Soviet state-sanctioned art. He did not find the existing tradition of realistic expression sufficient for his art. So he took an alternative route and developed his own tradition he termed suggestive realism.[3] Today Dubovik is truly admired as one of the pillars of Ukrainian art of the late 20th century.[4] He is a representative of the Sixtiers art movement and his art is well beyond the visual realm, based on mathematical, philosophical and complex system processes.[5]
In honour of the new sign - a bouquet created by Alexander Dubovik in the 1960s, the annual festival of performing arts "Bouquet Kyiv Stage" takes place in Kyiv.[6]
Biography
Alexander Dubovik was born in Kyiv in 1931 in the family of Mykhailo Dubovyk, a popular poet of the time. In 1941 Mykhailo Dubovyk was arrested on charges of taking part in nationalistically inspired pro-Ukrainian associations and engaging in a “counter-revolutionary” written exchange. The same year he was killed. Alexander Dubovik’s life was definitely affected by his father being labelled a Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist; however, despite this he managed to get a good education and following graduation his career quickly took off.[7] Mykhailo Dubovyk was exonerated posthumously in 1955.
From 1948 to 1950 Alexander Dubovik studied at the Taras Shevchenko State Art School with Hennadii Tytov as his mentor. In 1957 he finished his studies at the Kyiv State Art Institute (tutors Hennadii Tytov, Mykhaylo Khmelko, and Serhii Hrihoriev). His diploma painting was “Julius Fučík”, later exhibited within the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.[8][9]
In 1958 Dubovik entered the Artists’ Union of the USSR. From 1959 to 1962 he taught painting and graphics in the Kyiv College of Applied Arts.
From 1968 for two years he became an artist for the magazine Fine Arts.[vague] In 1958 he became a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, in which he represented the section of monumental and decorative art.[10] At this time, he was actively involved in community service in the youth section of the Union of Artists. During the "Thaw"[vague] everybody had high hopes for freedom of creativity, liberalization of culture and the weakening of official attitudes towards socialist realism.
In 1987 Dubovik became the head of the "Poglyad" creative association. He participated in the exhibition of this creative association in the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.[11]
From the 1980s Dubovik became one of the Ukrainian artists able to travel abroad and show his art to the whole world. In 1988 he held his personal exhibition at the exhibition hall of the Artists’ Union of the USSR and the next year at the exhibition hall of the Artists’ Union of the USSR and the Weiner Gallery in Munich. Since 1990 he has annually held exhibitions in museums, exhibition halls and galleries in Ukraine as well as abroad.[12] In the middle of the decade, he created two monumental works – stained glass windows in the New Apostolic Church in Kyiv (1994-1995) and wall paintings in the chapel of Notre Dame des Anges in the commune of Berre-les-Alpes in near Nice (1996).[13] He wrote philosophical and theoretical works in which he vividly and often paradoxically expressed his views on art and the artist within its context. Among his programmatic texts, one should name ‘My Catechism’, ‘Palimpsests’, ‘The Ladder to the Empty Skies’.
Dubovik's works are held in the National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv), Khmelnytsky and Zaporizhia Art Museums, State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Wurt Museum (Erstein, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art (Tehran, Iran), Ukrainian National Museum (Chicago, USA), Zimmerly Art Museum (New Jersey, USA) and many private collections in Ukraine and abroad.[citation needed] Dubovik's works were also included in the collection of Gradobank, which became part of the NAMU fund.[citation needed]
He is married to Iryna Dubovik (born 1945) and lives and works in Kyiv.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ http://konshu.org/en/section/mondec/dubovik-oleksandr.html
- ↑ https://mitec.ua/category/artists/dubovik-oleksandr/
- ↑ Александр Дубовик: монография, – Киев, – 2005, – C. 41. // Alexander Dubovik: Treatise. – Kiev, 2005 – P. 41
- ↑ https://mitec.ua/category/artists/dubovik-oleksandr/
- ↑ Александр Дубовик: монография, – Киев, – 2005, – C. 156. // Alexander Dubovik: Treatise. – Kiev, 2005 – P. 156.
- ↑ https://bouquetstage.com/en
- ↑ https://www.dnipro.libr.dp.ua/Mykhaylo_Dubovyk
- ↑ http://archive-uu.com/en/profiles/dubovyk-oleksandr
- ↑ Фогель, З. (1988). Александр Дубовик. Живопись, графика, монументально-декоративное искусство. Київ: Союз художників України. p. 3
- ↑ http://konshu.org/en/section/mondec/dubovik-oleksandr.html
- ↑ http://archive-uu.com/en/profiles/dubovyk-oleksandr
- ↑ Александр Дубовик: монография, – Киев, – 2005, – C. 160. // Alexander Dubovik: Treatise. – Kyiv, 2005 – P. 160
- ↑ Kateryna Tsyhykalo, Jean-Claude Marcadé (2021). Alexander Dubovik. The Sign. Kyiv: Osnovy Publishing. ISBN 978-966-500-675-6
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