Art of Transcarpathia through the prism of its creators and personalities. This section presents biographical information, background information, as well as pictures of artists, sculptors, masters of decorative and applied arts, whose life and creative path is connected with Transcarpathia.
This is a special and cognitive media project, the purpose of which is to look into the secret creative space of artists and sculptors, to turn the door into a magical place where works of art are born. The series of reports reveals interesting, unexpected and sometimes unknown details of life and work of contemporary artists, allows getting in the atmosphere that surrounds and inspires them, seeing in the author's interior finished works as well as those that are just being born.
2017
Vasyl Sidak is the Honoured Master of Folk Art of Ukraine, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize. The carver was born in 1947 in Zhdeniievo village, Volovets district. He graduated from the Uzhhorod College of Applied Arts, where his mentors were such outstanding masters as M. Popovych, V. Svyda, and I. Harapko.
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… At the end of a quiet cosy street, near the central part of Uzhhorod, we enter the courtyard. Trees and bushes are covered with yellow leaves, along the house there is an incredible aroma of pine – there are old and evergreen fir trees. A few more steps, and next to the vineyard in the building between the garages – painted, dark doors.
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It's not easy to get to Ruskyi Mochar in Velykyi Bereznyi district, Transcarpathia, where the studio of the Honoured Artist of Ukraine Vitalii Slobodskyi is located. The village is mountainous; the road is bad. But, the artist's studio is worth the efforts and time to get to it: in the middle of the planted by the master tall green Douglas firs, it is hidden a wooden dome-like structure, cosy internally decorated with a number of interesting things and works of the master.
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An optimist by nature who likes to live in his hometown.
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A truly good man with tousled hair and grey beard Petro Sholtes fully corresponds to the stereotype image of an artist by his appearance, demeanour, and even clothing. Having met him in the street, without being familiar, one can immediately understand that this is the man of art!
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The People's Artist of Ukraine Taras Danylych (born in 1945) lives and works in his native picturesque Dubrynychi village, Perechyn district.
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