BM Babak-Matveev is an art-duo of

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Mykola Babak Mykola Babak ( uk, Микола Бабак, 10 June 1954) is a Ukrainian artist, writer, publisher, and art collector; participant of the Ukrainian New Wave; lives and works in Cherkasy. Biography Mykola Babak was born in Voronyntsi, Cherkasy ...

and Evgene Matveev, created in 2014. Before working together, they were successfully realized as independent artists and won the highest state title, becoming People's Artists of Ukraine and winners of the

Taras Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded sinc ...

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Mykola Babak in 2005 represented

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at the

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with the national project "Your Children, Ukraine". Evgene Matveev was a participant of the

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in Paris in 1990. Both artists have participated in many exhibitions, competitions, biennials in Ukraine and abroad. They have created dozens of large-scale art projects and won national and international awards and prizes.
The first collaboration between Babak and Matveev took place within the framework of the implementation of unique art publishing projects. The artists created their first art project called "Sacrifice" in 2014. It consists of six epic compositions measuring each. Since 2017, BM has been collaborating with the New York Gallery AGCA and its owner Alexandre Gertsman. In 2018, the first personal exhibition of artists took place in the

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. In 2021, BM was for three times successfully presented at the American auction ShapiroAuctions, where their paintings "Bon Appetites" and "I'll be back", and a series of digital photos "Messages from "Paradise" were purchased for private collections.
BM works in almost all types and genres of

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. As the result of collaboration they've created more than a dozen large art projects and series, numbering several hundred works. To date, the artists' latest project is the

polyptych A polyptych ( ; Greek: ''poly-'' "many" and ''ptychē'' "fold") is a painting (usually panel painting) which is divided into sections, or panels. Specifically, a "diptych" is a two-part work of art; a "triptych" is a three-part work; a tetrapty ...

"13 Covid Rooms" (2021, digital art, ), which after a successful presentation in Ukraine is exhibited at the AGCA Gallery on

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(New York).

Exhibitions

Personal exhibitions * 2018 — "Fantasy and Fury: an Artistic Journey from

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", Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art Gallery, New York Group exhibitions * 2022 — "13 rooms COVID" Project (online exhibition), Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art Gallery, New York * 2021 — "13 rooms COVID" Project, Korsaky Museum of the Ukrainian Contemporary Art,

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* 2021 — "Intermission", 17th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Cherkasy Art Museum * 2020 — "Dialogues", tenth International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Cherkasy Art Museum * 2020 — "Art in the Time of Plague", Virtual Exhibition * 2018 — "Revelations", Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art Gallery, New York * 2017 — "The 3d Anniversary of Maidan", Cherkasy Art Museum * 2017 — "The Multidimensional Context of Art Beyond Post-Soviet Borders", Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art Gallery, New York«The Multidimensional Context of Art Beyond Post-Soviet Borders» Group Exhibition, New-York
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Donald Kuspit Donald Kuspit (born March 26, 1935) is an American art critic and poet, known for his practice of psychoanalytic art criticism. He has published on the subjects of avant-garde aesthetics, postmodernism, modern art, and conceptual art. Educatio ...

. Mykola Babak And Evgene Matveev: Dialectical Subversive
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