Alexander (Oleksandr) Voytovych (; born 1971 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian contemporary artist. Figurative painting characterizes the majority of his work, and portrait and naked model painting are two main themes of his art.
Biography Alexander Voytovych was educated at Lviv Decorative and Applied Art College named after Ivan Trush and the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Exhibitions
1994 "One for all", National Museum in L'viv, Ukraine 1995-1996 International Plein Airs, Budapest 1997-2000 Uzhgorod Picture Gallery, Ukraine, Uzhhorod 1998 "Art at the turn of millennia", Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts NAS of Ukraine, L'viv< 1999 The first author's project "Inspiratio" of art group "Polychrome" - visual penetration into the past and transformation in contemporary secret. The project generated considerable excitement and mixed reviews, Art-Cultural Center "Dzyga" 2000 Laureate of "Autumn salon" diptych by "objective reality" in collaboration with Ivanka Voytovych, L'viv Palace of Arts, Ukraine 2000 Lviv's portrait exhibition "Persona", L'viv Palace of Arts, Ukraine 2001 One-man exhibition "Capriccio…" — grotesque eroticism against Galician conservatism, gallery "Gerdan", Lviv 2002-2004 Exhibitions in Spain Charity Project "Originales Solidarios", Barcelona-Valencia, Spain One-man exhibition, La Galeria de Soledad Arroyo Gill, Toledo, Spain Centro Municipal de las Artes de Alcorcon, Madrid Galeria Nova Rua, Lugo I PREMIO INTERNACIONAL de ARTES PLASTICAS "Aires de Cordoba", a prize drawing and One-man exhibition in the gallery "Aires de Cordoba", Córdoba, Spain 2003 One-man exhibition "Women’s whims", Budapest, Hungary 2003 "Absinthe and Absence - a sweet Taste of Decadence" Art-Cultural Center "Soviart", Kyiv, Ukraine 2003-2006 Exhibitions in Poland "Lemkowskie Jeruzalem", Gorlice — Kraków — Wrocław International Triennial of Painting "Silver Square", Przemyśl "Lwowskie klimaty", gallery BWA, Kielce 2004 Erotic Art Exhibition "Apple from Eva", gallery "Uzhgorod", Uzhgorod, Ukraine Minoritenkloster, Tulln, Austria 2005 PREMIO WEB COLOR 2005, award in the category painting, gallery "Kleinos", Italy Project Gallery Antiquity "Three crowns", Lviv — Kyiv 2006 Together with the poet Alexander Gavrosh edition of poetry collection "A BODY OF AN ARCHERESS", is an attempt to recreate a myth about a perfect Woman with man's hands – hands of a poet Alexander Gavrosh and an artist Alexander Voytovych 2006-2009 A series of personal art projects "Allegory on high heels",Press about project "Allegory on high heels" gallery "Green sofa","Allegory on high heels" Lviv "ECSTASY Exiting daily routine" — sacrality appeal to the idea that the body is experiencing ecstasy and attempt to understand the nature of ecstasy, Museum of ideas, Lviv " Salome is not only…Kyiv Academic Young Theatre "Noble Entertaining In Ten Portraits" - find the perfect female image through the noble identity, Museum of ideas, Lviv "Things from Lviv", gallery "Silver Bells", Kyiv 2007-2008 The idea and organization of erotic art projects "Taming Eros" - male and female format, gallery "Green Sofa", Lviv "Grotesque in modern art", Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts NAS of Ukraine, L'viv "My Lviv", Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv "Art — Kyiv", Ukrainian House, Kyiv 2009 Open their own gallery "Art Atelier Voytovych" Lviv presenting collections of paintings, drawings and decors from Ivanka and Alexander Voytovych Exhibition of Contemporary Ukrainian Art Bucharest, Embassy of Ukraine, Romania "НюАнс", L'viv Palace of Arts, Ukraine 2009-2010 International Plein Airs in Hungary, Balatonföldvár and Vac 2010 One-man exhibitions "КаvART", "Svit kavy", Lviv "A Mysterious Portrait", Art Atelier Voytovych, Lviv
References
Bibliography International Painting Triennial of Carpathian Region Silver Quadrangle. — Przemyśl: San-Set, 2006 — P. 86. Ivanka és Alexander Voytovics festőművész család // Fészekrakó. — 2003. —III.évfolyam 1.szám — P. 3, 58–59. HU Voytovych trae an Aires sus elegantes figuras // Diario Córdoba. — 2004. — 18 de septiembre. — p. 54. Bodnar O./Боднар О. — Л. Тайна втілення. — Ужгород: Карпати, 2009. — P. 237–239. — fоtо: p. 227, 270. Gavrosh A./Гаврош О. Тіло лучниці. — Л.:Піраміда, 2006. — 56 с. — Ілюстрації: О.Войтович. Didyk N./Дідик Н. Fundamentals of composition. — Ужгород: Мистецька лінія, 2009. — С.44. Kosmolinska N./Космолінська Н. Art chat on "Green sofa" // FINE ART. — 2009. — No. 4. — P. 114 — 115. Chervatiuk L./Черватюк Л. Women's image in the Ukrainian modern art. — К.: Навчальна книга, 2007. — P. 33 — 34. Shumylovych B./Шумилович Б. Women, paintings and allegories in high heels. // Образотворче мистецтво. — 2008. — No. 4. — P. 92 — 93.
External links
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe Alexander Voytovych: "Woman as body" Award in Project "VESELKA" Opening the exhibition of Ukrainian artists Nude in lunar halo Modern art classics as preparation