ARTLONDON.COM LIMITED PRESENTS

THE ODESSA SCHOOL OF ART TODAY
Half a Century Together.

Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
19 MAY - 7 JUNE 2004

A major exhibition of paintings, graphic works and sculpture by contemporary Odessa artists:

YURI YEGOROV * VICTOR MARINYUK *

LYUDMILA YASTREB * VALENTIN KHRUSHCH * VLADIMIR TSYUPKO *

VLADIMIR STRELNIKOV * ALEXANDER ANUFRIEV * SERGEY SAVCHENKO *

NIKOLAI STEPANOV * VALERY BASANIETZ

Sponsored and Organised by ArtLondon.Com Limited galleries, United Kingdom

Ten artists, ten friends, their creativity spanning almost half a century have been invited to contribute their work to this unprecedented exhibition including major works from the permanent collection at the Odessa Art Museum as well as private collections and selected works from the artists' studios. United by the same ideals but distinguished by uniqueness of styles and languages there is, nevertheless, a firm bond between the artists underlined by a shared philosophy.

In the 1950s most of these artists were still young students. Their ideas have given roots in the short-lived "thaw" of the Krushchev era of the 1960s and blossomed in the 1970s. During that time, many of the artists had to fight the temptation of being sanctioned official state artists. Instead, they focused on the so-called "apartment exhibitions" - a cornerstone and showcase of the non-conformist artistic movement which flourished in Odessa, Moscow and Leningrad.