"Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967" Exhibition
The Ukrainian Museum
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This exhibition showcases two main threads of Burliuk’s life’s work: a cultivated naveté (or primitivism) and faktura, a textural essence expressed through intense colors and rhythmic variety. The ordinariness of his subjects—communal scenes of simple peasants at their daily routines in overgrown gardens or around the kitchen table—belies the underlying existentialism of Burliuk’s art. The “earthiness” of these scenes represents a brutal strength, a sensitivity to ecology, and a reverence for the natural cycles of life. As part of the Futurist dictum, life was to be absorbed through its raw energies, and Burliuk sought to capture this quality in his miniatures painted on simple, roughly hewn wooden blocks, as well as in the thick impasto of his paintings.
[Image: David Burliuk "Cossack Mamai" (1908) oil on burlap]
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from October 31, 2008 to April 26, 2009