2024-07-23
25 分钟We highlight three events that should be on your radar, starting with a trip to London’s Royal Academy of Arts to explore Ukrainian modernism. Then we head to the south of France for this year’s edition of a major summer photography festival, before hearing from US artist Lonnie Holley at his new show at London’s Camden Art Centre, ‘All Rendered Truth’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to Monocle on Culture.
I'm Robert Bounds.
On today's show, we're bringing you the second in our summer series.
Last week we heard about the musical events of the summer that have made us prick up our ears.
And now we're looking at visual art with three events that should be in the center of your radar.
We'll begin by reflecting on Ukraine's modernist art movement and how today it's reevaluated.
Then we'll head to the south of France for this year's edition of a legendary photography festival.
And finally, we'll hop back across the channel for a true standout of London's summer art slate, A solo show by the brilliant Lonnie Holly.
The first exhibition of Ukrainian modernist art in the UK was unveiled at London's Royal Academy last month.
Displaying works from the early 20th century, in the Eye of the Storm contains paintings from well known names like Son Delaunay and Kazimir Malovich, who've been exhibited in the UK's capital before, but labelled as Russian artists.
Now though, their Ukrainian roots are being explored.
Monacle's Julia Lassica went to the RA to learn what this means for the art world and what lovers of modernist art have been missing out on for so long.
Visual arts are a central part of a country's soft power strategy.
Britain had the brash brilliance of the 90s, Italians, the Renaissance, the French, the soft pastels of Monet's lilies.
But how about a country like Ukraine?
It is only recently that Ukraine has surfaced on the radar of most around the world.
An event triggered in large part by Russia's full scale invasion back in 2022.
But the country's cultural presence is arguably even further behind.
Exhibitions have mostly been limited to war related contemporary works.
Painters further back in the canon have long been mislabeled as Russian.