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20 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 2014 ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ ОКРУГ І ВІДДІЛІВ СУ А SAVE THE DATE—OCTOBER 31, 2014— KAPSCHUTSCHENKO EXHIBIT AT THE UKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL CENTER IN JENKINTOWN, PA The Philadelphia Regional Council of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America cordially invites everyone to attend an exciting exhibit of 40 sculptures by Petro Kapschutschen- ko from the private collection of Andrew and So- phia Melnychuk and gala black tie reception on Friday, October 31, at 7 P.M. in the Alexander Chernyk Gallery at the UECC, 700 Cedar Road, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. The exhibit will be on view until November 1. This particular collection, completed between 1970 and 1973, has only been presented on one other occasion. Petro Kapschutschenko was born in 1915 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, where he earned a degree in sculpture from the Dnipropetrovsk Academy of Art. After spending four years in Re- gensburg, Germany, during World War II, he immigrated to Argentina with his family. He was known there by his pseudonym Pedro Enko and was appointed Honorary Member of the Univer- sidad Libre de Humanidades de Buenos Aires for his artistry and contributions to Argentine cul- ture. In 1963, he settled in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, taught at the Ukrainian Art Studio, and established a studio nearby. He passed away in 2006 in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, leaving his wife Zoia and daughter Dr. Ludmila Schmitt, both of whom have also passed on since his death. The works of Mr. Kapschutschenko have been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Ar- gentina, and in nine museums in Ukraine, includ- ing the Taras Shevchenko Museum, the Kyiv His- tory Museum, the Museum of Hetmanship, the National Expocenter of Ukraine, and more recent- ly, the Ostroh Academy in 2013. Known for his expressive depictions of human life, he produced sculptures in various mediums including terra cotta, bronze, porcelain, and wood. He always used Ukrainian motifs and symbols in his crea- tions, but he also portrayed the life of many na- tions and countries in his works. Human emo- tions were always his main themes. His most famous sculptures were monu- ments to Princess Olha and Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky at St. Andrew’s Cemetery in Bound Brook, New Jersey, numerous miniatures on Cos- sack life, and sculptural portraits of Ivan Mazepa and Taras Shevchenko. Reviews: Anastasiia Kheleniuk, Director of History of Os- troh Academy, has said, “Petro Kapschutschenko is an extraordinary persona in Ukrainian art. He never tried to produce remarkable historic mo- ments in his works; he sculptured sentiments, moods, and situations from everyday life.” Dr. Oleksandr Fedoruk of Kyiv published on Kap- schutschenko’s contributions to art in his book Plastyka Petra Kapshuchenka ( Plastic Art by Petro Kapshuchenko ) in 2004. He writes about Kapschutschenko, “The tone of relations in Kap- schutschenko’s works holds the distance of trust. Characters of his miniatures are ready for under- standing, their feelings are perfectly suitable for the moment and fit the situation, his precise in- sight captures the fact of presence of that psycho- logical minute, a moment in time that will turn for a person into a well-kept emotional melody.” The newspaper Park East from New York City commented that: “[t]his sculptor is a man of deep thought and humane tactfulness. Maybe, it was not his life that influenced him because he is full of humor and humanity, but not grief and hatred. There is so much character in figures of fishermen and peasant women, that is seems they are about to say something; a violin player that bent over a little bit while playing a tune; a mother with one child and the other clinging to her skirt.” Petrusia Sawchak
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