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Press Office of the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada

January 29, 2009

№ 8

UKRAINIAN SCULPTORS INTRODUCE THEIR WORKS IN CANADA

In 2009 for the first time a team of Ukrainian sculptors will take part in the ice-carving and snow sculpture competitions in Quebec city, QC, Ottawa, ON and Rouyn-Noranda, QC (Canada).

On February 1-9 three sculptors (Orest Dzyndra, Serhiy Klyapetura and Petro Romanyuk) will participate in the most known and the world’s biggest Snow Sculpture Carnival which is to take place in Quebec city. “Ukrainian team of sculptors had presented a draft composition “Vertep” for consideration of an international jury and has been granted with a right to carve out of snow a sculpture “in its full profile”: height – 4 m., length – 6,4 m., width – 3 m. A sculpture will be made only with shovels and axes given no mechanic and electric devices are allowed”, as Orest Dzyndra said.

Orest Dzyndra, born in Lviv. In 1998 he graduated from Lviv Academy of Arts (Sculptor’s Department). He’s been involved into an international project on rebuilding the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, co-author of the “Golgotha” sculptural composition nearby Kyiv, participant of the first and the following crystal symposiums in Lviv, active participant of numerous international and native symposiums and exhibitions.

Serhiy Klyapetura, born in Kamyanets-Podilsky, graduated from Lviv Academy of Arts (Sculptor’s Department). Since 2006 he has been teaching sculpture in Kamyanets-Podilsky State University. In 2007 Serhiy Klyapetura became a founder of the sculptural symposiums PETRAMANIA 2007. He is co-author of “Pieta” sculptural composition in an orthodox monastery not far from Kyiv, author of numerous monumental works, mounted portraits and decorative compositions.

Petro Romanyuk, born in Myshyn village, Kolomyya Province, Ivano-Frankivsk Region. Since 1992 he has been a member of the National Artists' Union of Ukraine. In 1989 he graduated from National Academy of Art and Architecture, major in “sculpture” – workshop of V.Boroday. His sculpture “Hryhoriy Skovoroda” (bronze, h=2 м) is in the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy State Historian Cultural Reserve. Since 1991 Mr. Romanyuk has been a constant participant of Ukrainian Art Exhibitions, international sculptural symposiums (1994 – France, 1995 – Ukraine, 1998-2008 – Estonia, 2008 – Lithuania, 2004, 2006 – Great Britain). In January 2000 he took part in creating the first in Ukraine Park of Crystal Sculpture on Mykhaylivska Square in Kyiv. In 2002 under Mr.Romanyuk leadership a marble iconostasis for a Zarvanytska God’s Mother in Ternopil Region was established. His works are being kept in museums of Ukraine, private collections in France, the United States and Estonia.

On February 6-9 a Lviv sculptor Myroslav Dedyshyn will take part in Crystal Garden, International ice-carving competition in Ottawa. “At the ice-carving competition in Ottawa there are different categories – singles, pairs and one-block challenge. Being in a singles category in a period of 28 hours and using electric device I will have to make a composition named “Angel” which will consist of 8 blocks of ice. No help is allowed: it’s necessary to glue blocks so that they are unbroken, carve out a figure and keep in mind that it is also unbroken. There is “Angel” composition in bronze but ice is an interesting material which makes a sculpture clear and light”, Myroslav Dedyshyn said.

Myroslav Dedyshyn was born on Hutsulshchyna, lives in Lviv. His sculptures are mainly made from bronze or wooden, rarely from cement or iron, sometimes from stone, ice or terracotta or combination of different materials. Sculptures are mostly of interior size. Themes: male and female acts, animals, angels, sport, zodiac signs, portraits, myth, erotica, jokes. He is interested in space graphics.

On February 20-22 a team of all four Ukrainian fine art experts will participate in the 4^th National Snow Sculpture Festival in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec.

During their stay in Canada Ukrainian fine art experts will have a range of meetings with representatives of Ukrainian community in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa.

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