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Vasiliy (Vasily) Sad (born in 1948) is a Ukrainian abstract painter. He has been an active member "apartment exhibitions" in Odesa, which defended alternative forms of art against the Socialist Realism endorsed by the Soviet Union.
Early artistic career
Born in the Velyki Telkovychi village (Rivne oblast) in Ukraine in 1948, Vasiliy Sad moved to Odesa where he then graduated from the Grekov College of Arts in 1977. Shortly after his graduation he joined the "Mamai" group, a collective of non-conformist abstract painters named after Ukraine's national hero. From the early 1970s, the members of the group took an active part in the dissident Odessa Group. They displayed their art on the occasion of illegal "apartment exhibitions" in Odesa and Moscow, as they championed Soviet Nonconformist Art in Ukraine.
Collections and exhibitions
Works by Vasily Sad are in art collections of the National Art Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine); the Museum of Modern Art (Kyiv, Ukraine); the Khmelnitsky Museum of Modern Ukrainian art, Odesa Museum of Modern Art , Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art and international art collections in America, Canada, the UK, Italy, Monaco, UAE, Russia and Ukraine. Works by Vasily Sad have been sold at Phillips auction house, MacDougalls's Auction [1], Zurich International Contemporary Art Fair (Switzerland), Edinburgh Art Fair (Scotland) and Indian Art Summit (Delhi).
2012 15–28 February, Beauty in the Ordinary – solo exhibition, Mount Street Gallery, London
2011 25–27 June, Phillips de Pury Contemporary auction, London
2011 6–9 June, Auction MacDougall's, London
2011 12–15 April, AFTERMATH solo exhibition in commemoration of 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster; Embassy of Ukraine in the UK
2011 20-21 International Art Fair, Kensington Gore, Royal College of Arts, London
2010 Edinburgh Art Fair, Scotland
2010 Zurich International Contemporary ArtFair, Switzerland
2010 II Russian Art Fair, Hilton Park Lane, London
2010 Chelsea Art Fair, London
2010 20-21 International Art Fair, Kensington Gore, Royal College of Arts, London
2009 Russian Art Fair, Carlton Tower Hotel, London
2009 Solo exhibition, NT-Art gallery, Odesa, Ukraine
2005 “Mamai” art group exhibition, Museum of contemporary Ukrainian art, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine
2003 Odesa artists exhibition, Museum of Western and Easter Art, Odesa, Ukraine
2002 Graphic art exhibition, Odesa Sea Art gallery, Ukraine
2002 National art festival “Cultural heroes”, Odesa, Ukraine
2001 International Biennale of modern graphical art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2001 Ukraine Triennial “Art-2001″, Kyiv, Ukraine
2001 Odesa Sea Art gallery, Odesa, Ukraine
2001 “Mamai” art group exhibition, Odesa Contemporary Museum, Ukraine
2000 “Mamai” art group exhibition, Odesa, Ukraine
2000 Graphic art Triennial, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999 IV Ukrainian Art Congress exhibition, Odesa, Ukraine
1998 “Mamai” art group exhibition (Odesa’s Non-Conformist), across Ukraine
1998 Ukraine Triennial “Art-98″, Kyiv, Ukraine
1996 Art club-96 exhibition, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine
1995 Ukraine-95 Art exhibition, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
1995 “Kandinsky life in Odesa” exhibition, Odesa, Ukraine
1994 Group exhibition of art group “Boat”, Odesa, Ukraine
1994 3rd Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence exhibition, Odesa, Ukraine
1991 Biennale “Impresa”, Ukraine
1987 Odesa monumental art exhibition, Odesa, Ukraine
1984 Ukrainian Art exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
In the 1970s Odesa nonconformist artists among whom was Vasily Sad took an active part in the unofficial, so called “apartment exhibitions”.
References
External links
Artist’s profile on Saatchi
Artelia – the artist’s gallery
YouTube Video about Artist
NT- Art Gallery
Article on Vasiliy Sad in Today.od.ua
The Independent article on Vasily Sadl
Beauty in the Ordinary Exhibition
Absolutearts
ARTslanT
Artnet Auction results
ArtPrice on Vasily Sad auction results
Odesa Modern Artists
The Art Stack