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Architectural Form

Mykhailo Dzyndra

Basic information

ID: ФД-362
Author: Mykhailo Dzyndra
Name: Architectural Form
Date of creation: 1982
Country: the USA
Technique: modeling
Material: cement mixture reinforcing mesh facade acrylic paint

Additionally

Type: sculpture
Genre: abstract painting
Plot: Architecture
Provenance: Courtesy of Mykhailo Dzyndra to Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
Exposition: Mykhailo Dzyndra Museum of Modern Sculpture

Information about author

Author: Mykhailo Dzyndra
Artist's lifetime: 1921–2006
Biography: Mykhailo Dzyndra was born on November 8, 1921 in the village of Demnia, Lviv region. He studied at the Art and Industry School in Lviv. In 1944, he emigrated first to Slovakia, then in 1945 – to West Germany, and in 1951 – to America (the USA), where he destroyed almost all his early works performed until the 1950s. In the mid-1960s, the artist began to create modern sculpture, initially with the characteristic features of Modernism. In 1991, he returned to independent Ukraine. At his own expense, Dzyndra built a museum in Briukhovychi, near Lviv, where he placed more than 800 of his own sculptures transported from the United States. Later on, he donated them to the state. At present, Mykhailo Dzyndra Museum of Modern Sculpture is a department of Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery.

Object description

The work belongs to the series of architectural forms in sculpture. It demonstrates the visual principles of Brutalist architecture that is characterised by simple geometric shapes of concrete performed without any decorations. Its shape resembles a geometric structure of four three-dimensional planes; they are connected by an element that is similar to the image of a flying disk-shaped object; it is tinted with gray, ocher, and white colors.

Inscriptions

Author monogram MD and date 82

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