May 11, 2016
Organizers: Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
Speakers: Valentin Popov, artist and Dale Djerassi, producer, founding trustee of Djerassi Resident Artists program
This event will be in English.
Moderator of the talk: Natalia Shpitkovskaya, director of international projects of Modern Art Reserach Institute, Artcult foundation co-founder
The speakers will share their experience of making career in creative industries in USA, giving facts and memories from own life and career achievements. Valentin Popov's used to be one of the artist-resident of Djerassi program, international residency program for artists founded by famous chemist Karl Djerassi, Dale Djerassi's father. The program played an important role in his life, being open internationally and taken care by the no less famous son of the founder at present.
VALENTIN POPOV is a Ukrainian artist, born in Kiev and living for more than 25 years in USA. He graduated from Kiev Academy of Fine Arts of Ukraine and later had a teaching practice in University of California and San Francisco Art Institute. In 2016 Valentin was admitted as Foreign member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. At the meeting in the America house he will beawarded the Diploma of the Academy.
He is an example of self-made talent, who is admired and recognized abroad. His works are in collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Public Library, Zimmerli Art Museum-The State University of New Jersey, Museum of Russian-American History of Alaska, Sitka, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina and many others.
"Now in his adopted country, Popov has seized the newness, crassness, abundance and glamour of American culture. Like a very hungry child in a giant supermarket, he wants to taste everything. His recent art reflects this manic appetite for the visual imagery and spoken phrase that now infuses his work."
Robert Flynn Johnson, curator , Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
"When I first saw Valentin Popov's paintings they gave me a shock. The art had a fetishistic splendor that astounded the eye and confounded the mind. Here again, it seemed, was that melting museum of my dream. "
Barnaby Conrad III, publisher
"The well-delineated eye is a Popovian signature. The eye is a two-way vestibule through which we see others at the same time as we see ourselves reflected. The eye is both a window and a mirror."
Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, critic, literary historian
DALE DJERASSI -president of Djerassi Films, Inc., has produced and directed several documentary films including Nada Será Como Antes (Nothing Will Be As It Was), about the return of jazz musicians Flora Purim and Airto Moreira to Brazil, and Bhutan -- A Strange Survival, the story of a unique Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas. He co-produced (with Barbet Schroeder) Koko -- The Talking Gorilla, a feature-length documentary about the famed sign language-speaking gorilla. He also produced '68, an independent feature film set in San Francisco in the turbulent year of 1968. Additionally, Djerassi produced two plays -- An Immaculate Misconception at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco and Primary Stages in New York, and Calculus at the Performing Arts Library & Museum in San Francisco.
Djerassi received a bachelor of science degree in political science from Stanford University where he also studied documentary film production. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco and is a founding trustee of both the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California and the Vanguard Public Foundation in San Francisco.
More information about speakers: popov.com anddjerassi.org
Organization partners:
National Ukrainian Academy of Arts is a state scientific and artistic institution in the field of art, culture, and art history in Ukraine. The academy is one of the six state funded institutions along with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine that was established in 1996 and obtained its National status in 2010. The membership to the academy is on an electoral basis for the distinguished specialists of professional artistry: theater and film directors, composers, painters, conductors, actors etc.
Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine was founded in 2001 to carry research and exhibition activities in the field of contemporary culture (modern art, theater and cinema).
MARI initiatives aimed to create intellectual atmosphere around the phenomena of contemporary culture. The Institute takes active part in numerous Ukrainian and international exhibitions, conferences , forums, educational seminars and workshops.
MARI officially represented Ukraine at 50, 52, 55-th Venice Biennale in Italy.
Artcult Foundation is a public organization created to promote and support art in Ukraine and abroad. The Foundation conducts and supports art projects, providing information and advice in arts.
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