Fwd: Forbidden Underground Artist from Ukraine

[mIEKAL aND]

[I thought this was a nigerian spam, but no. And a postmodernist,
nonetheless. ~mIEKAL]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Serhiy Kolyada" <koly...@i.com.ua>
> Date: May 3, 2006 12:29:47 AM CDT
> To: <perspi...@xexoxial.org>
> Subject: Forbidden Underground Artist from Ukraine
>
> Dear Mr. Editor!
>
>
>
> I found your email address on your web site and decided to write to

> you. I am Ukrainian artist and my art is forbidden (underground) in

> Ukraine. I would like to invite you to my exhibition on the
> Internet: http://www.kolyada.com! You could see that I have very
> original style and technique as well (ball-point pen).
>
>
>
> Today even after the democratic Orange revolution in Ukraine our
> galleries still refuse me to make my art show. Because I use the
> social and political commentaries. But thanks to democratic US I
> have my show at "State of the Arts Gallery" in Sarasota, Florida.
> You can contact David Steiner, the owner, at artst...@earthlink.net.
>
> I would like to ask you could you please write about my art in your

> country? Here, in Ukraine, there were only foreign publishers who
> wrote the articles about my art and my struggle for a freedom of
> art. They are on my site.You could realy help me and help to
> develop real democracy in Ukraine.
>
> I don't believe that our Parliament elections will change my
> situation...
>
> Maybe it’s possible to make a link exchange.
>
>
>
> I hope you'll visit my site and answer my letter.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Serhiy Kolyada,
>
> Ukrainian artist- postmodernist.

[Lanny Quarles]

Have you seen this?
It's pretty spendy..
I love some of the Czech artists work..
Toyen

I wonder what a Georgian Dadaist might be like?

The Eastern Dada Orbit: Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Central Europe and Ja
pan
(Crisis and the Arts) (Hardcover)
by Stephen C. Foster (Editor)

[mIEKAL aND]

On May 5, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Lanny Quarles wrote:

> Have you seen this?
> It's pretty spendy..
> I love some of the Czech artists work..
> Toyen
>
> I wonder what a Georgian Dadaist might be like?

Kruchenykh lived in Tbilisi 1918-20.... The same time Gurdjieff was
there running his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man.

[phanero]

Ah yes, but then Kruchenykh was a Zaumist,
and Gurdjieff an avatar of the lost Sarmoung...