For Olena Turyanska, the project “The Beauty of the Everyday” is an attempt to understand the world of Olena Kulchytska and to explore the creative method of an artist who is important to her. For us, it is a unique opportunity to enter a kind of magical space of art and experience its incredible possibilities. In this space, Olena Turyanska’s artistic practices allow her not only to stand alongside Olena Kulchytska, observing her, but also to interact and co-create this space together.
I look at a narrow street in one of Italy’s small towns, bathed in warm sunlight, at a tree in bloom, at the leaning fence of a rural courtyard, I look at a snow-covered park in Lviv, an old woodshed, an open city gate; I look at the water, the cobblestones, the wall; I see trees, branches, roots, stones... Olena Turyanska noticed all of this; these are all the artist’s ordinary, everyday observations, her “found objects,” later intricately recreated/created from sheets of paper. Yet it is impossible to shake the thought that these places and things, this light and shadow, this angle, line, and compositional technique, remind one of someone—someone who has already been here, someone who has already seen this, and who also noticed and preserved this beauty for us.
It is some elusive sign of Olena Kulchytska’s presence, as if she were walking those same paths. She, too, searches, stops attentively, captures, and later recreates/creates that beautiful everyday life on paper using various techniques. And somehow, in this project, I can’t bring myself to write about Kulchytska in the past tense.
It seems that Ivanna Fedorovych-Malytska once wrote about the “sensitive, yet unsentimental nature of the artist” Olena Kulchytska. Mykola Voronyi added: “No ostentation or showiness, nothing superfluous or garish—elegant simplicity, rational taste, and a subtle aesthetic sense of European culture, and at the same time—a unique, national one—arose here somehow on their own—from an organic need, from the tribulations of practical life.” Rereading these lines, I wonder—is this about Kulchytska, or about Turyanska? And I feel gratitude that Turyanska speaks of Kulchytska, and Kulchytska of Turyanska, with the simplicity and clarity characteristic of both.
Maria Tsymbalista
looking at the water V
Olena Turyanska
15,5 х 24 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
looking at the water VI
Olena Turyanska
15,5 х 24,5 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
looking at the water IV
Olena Turyanska
15 х 25 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
looking at the water III
Olena Turyanska
15,5 х 22 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
looking at the water II
Olena Turyanska
15 х 25 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
looking at the water I
Olena Turyanska
15, 5 х 24,5 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
Na rybalskomu chovni II
Olena Turyanska
19,5 х 33,5 см
NA rybalskomu chovni I
Olena Turyanska
19,5 х 33,5 см
Stina. Stodola v Lopushnii
Olena Turyanska
14 х 22 см
corn. lopushna
Olena Turyanska
23 х 40 см
Padalytsia
Olena Turyanska
21,5 х 38 cм
Parkan. Olesko
Olena Turyanska
14,5 х 20,5 см
Drovitnia. Rozhadiv
Olena Turyanska
18,5 х 32,5 см
Stodola. Lopushna
Olena Turyanska
17 х 24,5 см
summer
Olena Turyanska
12 х 21,5 см
Chornohora
Olena Turyanska
23,5 х 41 см
Zyma. Vikna. Piieta I
Olena Turyanska
18 х 19 см
Zyma. Vikna. Piieta II
Olena Turyanska
18 х 19 см
Zyma. Vikna. Piieta IV
Olena Turyanska
18 х 19 см
Zyma. Vikna. Piieta III
Olena Turyanska
18 х 19 см
winter. stryisky park
Olena Turyanska
22,5 x 29 см
Derevo. Prysviata Oleni Kulchytskii
Olena Turyanska
32 х 55 см
tree. pohulanka (with background)
Olena Turyanska
29 х 38,5 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
winter. chestnut. Lviv
Olena Turyanska
20 х 26,5 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
tree. pohulanka
Olena Turyanska
29 х 38,5 см
debra. derevo z lianamy III
Olena Turyanska
23,5 х 41 см
winter tree
Olena Turyanska
23 х 30,5 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
debra. derevo z lianamy II
Olena Turyanska
23,5 х 41 см
Debra. derevo z lianamy I
Olena Turyanska
23,5 х 41 см
Mandrivka horoiu. Kaplytsia. Lovchen
Olena Turyanska
23,5 х 28,5 см
Mandrivka horoiu. drova. lovche
Olena Turyanska
23,5 х 28,5 см
Mandrivka horoiu. Lovchen
Olena Turyanska
23.5 х 28,5 см
parkan. zelena
Olena Turyanska
15 х 20 см
snow on the cobblestone
Olena Turyanska
16 х 24,5 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
the first snow
Olena Turyanska
16 х 23,5 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
Winter. Fence. Olesko
Olena Turyanska
15.5 х 21.5 см
in the snow
Olena Turyanska
14 х 21 см
paper, cutting, appliqué
kyslytsia
Olena Turyanska
29 х 32 см
Brama. Snopkivska
Olena Turyanska
12 х 22 см
Brama. Tin'. Pekarska
Olena Turyanska
12 х 21 см
Brama. Drohobych
Olena Turyanska
12 х 21,5 см
stina. lopushna
Olena Turyanska
13 х 18 см
sad. Olesko
Olena Turyanska
14 х 20 см
trava
Olena Turyanska
14,5 х 22 см
balkon. lviv
Olena Turyanska
12,5 х 18 см
Parkan. ternopilska. LVIV
Olena Turyanska
14 х 20 см
stina. Olesko
Olena Turyanska
14 х 20 см
horshchyk z kvitamy
Olena Turyanska
16 х 19,5 см
Brama. Berezhany
Olena Turyanska
12 х 21,5 см
svitlo
Olena Turyanska
12,5 х 18,5 см
dvoryk. rustaveli. Lviv
Olena Turyanska
12 х 18,5 см
balkon
Olena Turyanska
13 х 19,5 cм
Vidro z doshchivkoiu
Olena Turyanska
12 х 21 см
dvir. vulytsia Svientsitskykh
Olena Turyanska
19 х 26.5 см
Balkon. Fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
19 х 26,5 см
Monastyr. Fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
12.5 х 21.5
brama. vulytsia parkova
Olena Turyanska
15 х 28,5 см
Sontse. Fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
12 х 21 см
Sontse. Fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
12 х 21 см
Balkon. Fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
22 х 35 см
Skhody. Fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
13 х 22 см
Parkan. Lito. Lopushna
Olena Turyanska
22 х 35
Zyma. Derevo. Lviv
Olena Turyanska
18.5 х 33 см
Arka. Fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
16 х 23.5
brukivka. fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
14.5 х 26 см
Podvir'ia. Vulytsia Snopkivska
Olena Turyanska
18.5 х 27 см
lemonsada. san pio
Olena Turyanska
19 х 24
Sontse. Podvir'ia. Fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
18 х 28
sontse. sulmona
Olena Turyanska
16 х 28
terasa. fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
16 х 26.5 см
podvir'ia. vulytsia snopkivska
Olena Turyanska
18 х 28 см
stina. fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
18 х 28 см
lemonsada. san pio
Olena Turyanska
19 х 24 см
sontse. podvir'ia maisterni
Olena Turyanska
12.5 х 22 см
budova. fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
16 х 26
nich. fontekkio.
Olena Turyanska
15.5 х 27 см
sontse. vulychka. fontekkio
Olena Turyanska
17 х 24 см
Skhody. fontekkio.
Olena Turyanska
16 х 28 см
Grate
Olena Turyanska
23 х 13 см
сolored paper, аppliqué