As part of the Theatre in Context project, The Naked Room and Malyi Theatre are launching a programme of chamber displays focusing on one work. The first exposition in the theatre’s exhibition hall features the Karelia tapestry by the 60s artist Alina Lamakh, whose works are still unknown in Ukraine.
Alina Lamakh (1925—2020) is known primarily as the wife of the artist Valeriy Lamakh, a famous monumentalist and a key figure of the 60s generation. She is also known as the author of The Book of Schemes, an opus magnum of Ukrainian informal art dedicated to the author’s philosophical system of analysing world culture. During his lifetime, Lamakh left unpublished manuscripts of the work. For more than 30 years after his death in 1978, Alina Mykolayivna worked on their arrangement, transcription, reprinting, editing, and preparation for publication.
However, Lamakh also had her own artistic practice, which she pursued in the 1980s and 1990s in parallel with her work on The Book of Schemes. Her oeuvre includes tapestries, graphic landscapes, paintings and still lifes. Alina Lamakh’s artistic works demonstrate the author’s unconditional understanding of the conceptual dimension of floral ornament and the possibilities of the optical effect of the interaction of a visual image with architectural space. Her tapestry Karelia (1993), made of linen and wool, is presented by The Naked Room gallery in Kyiv at the Malyi Theatre.
The work will be on view from 4 June to 4 July at the theatre at 33 Honchara Street: Thursday-Sunday from 13:00 to 17:30. The exhibition is also available to the audience of the Malyi Theatre before the performance and during the intermission.
Exhibition opening: 04.06 at 19:00 at 33 Gonchara Street.
