How to explain the World to a newborn?
17/03/2025

How to explain the World to a newborn?

We invite children aged 7 to 10 to a special lesson within the framework of the exhibition "Warm Optics" from its author, an artist originally from Dnipro, Lucy Ivanova.

How to draw a crocodile? What is a drawing? What is paint? What is a painted crocodile? What is a real crocodile? And how to explain all this to the crocodile itself? Or to someone who is completely new here? Let's think together about how everything works and draw it!

WHEN: Saturday, March 22, 12:30 PM
WHERE: Artsvit Gallery, Krutogorny Uzviz 21a. Entrance through the glass sliding doors from the side of Uspenskaya Square

Admission is free, please register here!

Photo: Olya Vasylets

Lyusya Ivanova — born in 1989 in Dnipro. She studied at the Dnipropetrovsk Theater and Art College in the studio of Hryhoriy Cherneta. Later, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, where she worked in the studio of Vasyl Hurin. Her specialty is “Easel Painting”. She had solo exhibitions at Kahan Art Space in Vienna (2023) and Budapest (2024). Lucy’s works were presented at Liste Art Fair (2022) and Vienna Contemporary (2023, 2024). Before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, she lived in Kyiv. She lives and works in Vienna.

How to explain the World to a newborn?

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