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Matvei Vaisberg loves and deeply appreciates the work of many artists, especially Georges Rouault, Chaïm Soutine, and Francisco Goya. Together with Andrij Mokrousov, an art and literary critic, Matvei Vaisberg developed arrière-garde, an art concept that he incorporates in many of his works. He sees himself as a creator neither of the mimetic nor of the abstract. Similarly, although quite a few of his paintings are centered around biblical themes (Days of Creation, Book of Job, Scenes from Tanakh), he does not think of himself as a religious artist. In 2014, the artist turned his attention to tumultuous events in Kyiv and painted a new series of paintings called “Wall,” dedicated to events on Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). The artist himself was not just a witness of these events but also a participant. The cycle “Wall” consists of 28 pictures, each measuring 45 cm by 60 cm, exhibited as a single block, like a wall. The cycle was shown in Kyiv, London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Warsaw, etc. Matvei Vaisberg’s other series (“cycles”) of paintings include “Seven Days” (1998-1999), “The Judaean Desert” (2001), “Anthropic Principle” (2004-2008), “Dancings” (2006-2009), “Scenes from Tanakh” (2006), “Holy Heaven Remains Silent” (2008), “Pur Vital” (2006), “Threetwotwo” (2009), and “Wall” (based on Hans Holbein the Younger’s prints, 2012).
Matvei Vaisberg (Ukrainian: Матві́й Ва́йсберг; Russian: Матвeй Ва́йсберг; born 28 December 1958) is a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist and book designer. In 1985, he graduated from Ivan Fiodorov Ukrainian Printing Institute (nowadays The Ukrainian Academy of Printing). In 1988, he started to take part in collective exhibitions. In 1990, his first personal exhibition took place in the Historical Museum of Podol (Kiev). This was followed by more than fifty of both group and personal exhibitions, including shows in the National Art Museum (Kyiv), Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art (Kyiv), Museum of Contemporary Art in Odesa (Odesa), Cherkasy Museum of Fine Arts (Cherkasy), Berlin Wall Museum (Berlin), Ukrainian Institute of America (New York), Europe House (London), the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Warsaw), Georgian National museum Georgia.
A book of wartime poems by Alexandr Kabanov, one of Ukraine’s major poets, fighting for the independence of his country by means at his disposal – words and rhymes.
Every character in these twenty-two interlinked stories is an immigrant from a place real or imaginary. (Magic realism/immigrant fiction.)
In this collection, Andrey Kneller has woven together his own poems with his translations of one of the most recognized and celebrated contemporary Russian poets, Vera Pavlova.
This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam’s most beloved and haunting poems.
Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
A book of poems in Russian by Victor Enyutin (San Francisco, 1983). Victor Enyutin is a Russian writer, poet, and sociologist who emigrated to the US from the Soviet Union in 1975.
