Ukrainian painter
Kryvolap Hanna |
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| Born | (1977-04-26) April 26, 1977 (age 47)
Kyiv, Ukraine |
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| Education | Taras Shevchenko State Art Secondary School, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture |
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| Known for | painting |
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| Partner | Anatoliy Kryvolap |
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Hanna Kryvolap (born 26 April 1977, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian painter. She became a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in 2001.[1] She lives and works in Ukraine.
Biography
Hanna Kryvolap was born in Kyiv in the family of a famous Ukrainian artist Anatoliy Kryvolap and an ethnographer and researcher of the history of Ukrainian national dress Zinaida Vasina. She received her first painting lessons from her parents and has been working creatively since childhood.
She studied at the Taras Shevchenko State Art School (1989-1995; teachers Zoya Lerman and Oleh Zhyvotkov). In 2001, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (D. Lider's workshop).
First solo exhibition took place in 1990 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Her paintings have been exhibited at personal exhibitions in Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Turkey, the Netherlands, France, and Montenegro.[2] She has been a participant in group, national, international exhibitions, plein airs, art projects.[3]
Her works are held by the US Embassy in Ukraine, the Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine (Kyiv), Zaporizhzhia Regional Art Museum, Museum of Young Art (MOYA; Vienna, Austria),[3] and numerous private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
Art career
Hanna Kryvolap works at the intersection of several styles and trends. In her artistic polity, the features of abstract expressionism, fauvist savagery and archaic motifs of folk painting are recognizable.
The artist's main series include the following:
- Horizons. "Hanna Kryvolap's paintings from the Horizons series grow out of the intersection of impressions and purely pictorial fantasies. She paints cities as if from a bird's eye view from remote vantage points where they reveal wide panoramas. The artist is interested not so much in the uniqueness of individual cities as in plastic expressiveness, flexible silhouettes, saturation of colours, which from a distant perspective lose their objectivity, turning the image of the city into a magnificent morgana veil. The landscape is here "the material from which the artist builds his colourful world, full of beauty, energy and abuse". Halyna Skliarenko. "Hanna Kryvolap has a rare talent to "soften" the intimacy of urban landscapes, to add life to them, without inhabiting them with living beings. She transforms her picturesque city into a natural phenomenon, not a human creation. The reflection of the landscape is not literal, but a certain mood, an atmospheric mood, returns to the object of reflection, changing it again, changing its breathing." Andrey Kurkov[4]
- Ribbons. In her works from the series "Ribbons" Hanna Kryvolap addresses the theme of Ukrainian traditions, which reflect the mentality and soul of the people. The inspiration for the works was a well-known wedding rite, when girls tie ribbons to the fence, making their innermost wishes. In these works, we can see how, thanks to the artist's peculiar expressive colouristic style, the traditional festive installation is transformed into a contemporary artwork.[5]
- Wells. This series of works is dedicated to an object as important to Ukrainian identity as a well. What is it: an architectural structure, a source of life, a place that gathers a community? The series depicts wells from different regions of Ukraine, which differ in style and execution. The first work was made in 2006.[6]
- Involvement. "The series Involvement emerged as a reflection of the artist's memories of her contact with ancient artefacts - "mosaics". The artist avoids ornamentation, leaving the geometric construction, which creates the effect of monumentality. The project is based on an original painting technique that involves painting with short strokes in the form of rectangles, with the inclusion of contrasting colours, which vaguely resembles pointillist practices." Roksana Rublevska[7][8]
- Dynamics of Galician Baroque. "The language and plasticity of the paintings of the Dynamics of Galician Baroque were formed gradually and grew through the works of Hanna Kryvolap's series Landscapes, Ribbons, Blooming, Involvement, Reminiscences... the series is a dialogue with the Baroque sculptor Pinsel and is inspired by his energy of movement-flight and colour of the Ribbons, combined with the folklore songfulness of ancient and new traditions. The new theme is based on the intense work on the structure of ascent and layering of colour in physical and speculative dynamics. Feeling a certain kinship with his perception of space and movement, the artist again plunged into the work of the mysterious sculptor. A passionate and confidential conversation ensued. Artists often engage in dialogues with their predecessors who excited or influenced them. The cycle of paintings "The Dynamics of Galician Baroque" is a vivid example of a dialogue between two artists across the centuries. On the one hand, it is an expressive obeisance, that is, a gesture of respect to the artist who worked in the 18th century, from a 21st century artist, and on the other hand, it is her own passionate expression, a pictorial text about the dramas and conflicts and mental tension of a modern person." Olesia Avramenko[9][10]
- Plastic variations. The result of the artist's experiments with body art, when, moving in dance, figures from real space, having acquired colour, return to the surface of the canvas, giving a completely different context to the human figure.[11]
- Abstract compositions. A series of abstract paintings that appeal to sensuality. Colour and its emotional and psychological properties become the centre of attention. The author, thanks to colour combinations and plasticity, immerses the viewer in a certain psychological state, aiming to free art from any control of the diet in order to release the inner impulses of the subconscious. A special emphasis is placed on the painting surface.[12]
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Hanna Kryvolap. "Horizons. Spectrum". 2024
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Hanna Kryvolap. "Ribbons". 2021.
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Hanna Kryvolap. "Wells". 2008.
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Hanna Kryvolap. "Involvement". 2020.
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Hanna Kryvolap. "The Dynamics of Galician Baroque". 2023.
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Hanna Kryvolap. "Plastic Variations". 2001.
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Hanna Kryvolap. "Abstractions". 2019.
