THE COLORDYNAMOS of ALEXIS GRITCHENKO COLORIDYNAMOS d’ALEXIS GRITCHENKO ОЛЕКСА ГРИЩЕНКО ДИНАМОКОЛІР PATRONATED BY MALABAR ART LTD, cance for Ukrainian art of XX century? THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK. DEAR FRIENDS! INITIATED BY MARYNA LITVINTCHOUK More than 40 years have passed since Gritch- You can prepay the book right now. It will AND Michel LIEVRE MARKOVITCH enko’s death, and a serious monograph to PREFACE. cost approximately 60.00 EU, prepayment — (LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN), RODOVID encompass all his creative development is Michel Lievre Мarkovitch, collector 50.00 EU (before 31 September 2016) PUBLISHERS (KYIV, ) IS timely. There is also a great desire to show the THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE You can also become a co-creator of PUBLISHING A MONOGRAPH BY VITA artist’s works in exhibitions in Kyiv and . 1. My Blue Days Ukraine the project by supporting the publication SUSAK «THE COLORDYNAMOS of ALEXIS 2. Moscow: Sturm und Drang Years. of this monograph, important of the art GRITCHENKO». About the author of the monograph. The 1908-1919 history of Ukraine. Our terms are mutually text of the book is being prepared by Vita 3. Blue and Pink Constantinople. beneficial: if you prepay 20 books and Alexis Gritchenko (1883-1977) was a painter, Susak, 1919-1921 give to the publication foundation 1000 art critic, whose creative work is closely Candidate of Art Studies, her famous 4. Paris. Travels and Exhibitions. EU, then you become a sponsor of the connected with Ukraine, Russia and . book is «Украинские художники Парижа. 1920-1930 publication – your name or the names of In 1910-ies he developed his own art direc- 1900-1939» (Ukrainian Artists of Paris) 6. Lviv. АНУМ your family will be mentioned in the begin- tion — colordynamos, based on the (Rodovid, 2010). She has been studying 7. I can paint only when I am happy. ning of the book with acknowledgements principles and formal language of icons. In Gritchenko’s art for many years. A lot of 1940-1960 for your support. post-revolutional Moscow in Art Culture Mu- new facts and documents are going to 8. Memoirs seum (1919-1929) be published in the book for the first time; 9. Alexis Gritchenko Foundation in New With all questions on prepayment and Gritchenko’s colordynamos were shown side they uncover the artist’s abundant biog- York project support apply to emails: by side with Shevchenko’s primitivism, raphy, no less colourful and dynamic than 10. Celebration in Honour of the Artist in Kandinsky’s and Malevich’s his art. Salon d’automne 1973 UKRAINE suprematism. The monograph is going to be richly illus- 11. Comeback toUkraine RODOVID Publishers Why were colordynamos forgotten? Is it be- trated with Gritchenko’s art from muse- 12. Alexis Gritchenko against the Back- [email protected] cause forgotten is equal to unimportant? But ums and private collections of the world ground of XX Century Art. Sergiy Kerbytsky who remembered Malevich, Boichuk, Bohom- (Kyiv, Paris, Moscow, Petersburg, Vladivo- APPENDIX: [email protected] azov in 1950-70-ies? Why did the contempo- stok, Philadelphia, New York etc.) Gritchenko Biography. FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, EUROPE raries regard colordynamos as an indepen- «I can paint only when I am happy» – Gritchenko Publications. [email protected] dent phenomenon of avant-garde? How did Oleksa Gritchenko used to say, and so he Gritchenko Personal Exhibitions. NORTH AMERICA Gritchenko’s art evolve when he left Moscow in did in spite of all the ordeals and dra- Illustrations List. [email protected] 1919, spent two years in Constantinople, went matic events of the XX century. The vivid Illustrations Sources to and then to Paris to stay in France energy of his art must fill the blank in the Designers of the book — Maria Norazyan Yours most sincerely, for good? art history of XX century and make XXI and Illya Pavlov (Grafprom, Kharkiv) Lidia Lykhach The head of RODOVID What place does he take among the repre- century people happier. Publishers sentatives of Paris school? What is his signifi- With all questions on prepayment and project support apply to emails:

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АЛЕКСЕЙ ГРИЩЕНКО ЦВЕТОДИНАМОС. / COLORIDYNAMOS d’ALEXIS GRITCHENKO / THE COLORDYNAMOS of ALEXIS GRITCHENKO Monograph. Author – Vita Susak. Format 230х310 mm, 304 p., 250 coloured and black-and-white illustrations. Hardback. Ukrainian, English and French versions. To be printed in September 2016 Cityscape (fragm.), 1918