An exhibition dedicated to the most influential artist of the twentieth century opens in Odesa

The exhibition "Ode to Sonia" dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the artist Sonia Delaunay, who was born in Odesa, opened in the city on April 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art and will last until the end of August.

Anna Morokhovska, the curator of the exhibition, told Intent that for her the exhibition is a conversation about a world-class mystic who is being returned home.

"Ode to Sonia" is an exhibition project dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the artist who made color a language and everyday life an art. It is a lively dialog between the artist who left Odesa more than a century ago and the city as it is now.

The exhibition features:

• reinterpreted ornaments and rhythms in plates and vases.
• Experiments with textiles and simultaneous prints.
• neon posters.
• geometry and color as a dialog between form and feeling in sculpture.

Sonia Delaunay (pre-marital pseudonym Sonia Turk) is an artist and designer, a representative of the Art Deco (Futurism) movement, and the founder of the Orphism and Simultanism art movements. She is immortalized on the Heritage Floor.

Sonia Delaunay's works have not remained in Ukraine, where she was born, although her name is one of the first among the artists of the world avant-garde. Having founded the artistic movement, Sonia Delaunay explained her work. She has repeatedly emphasized that her impressions of Ukrainian culture and colorful Ukrainian weddings allowed her to create images of simultanism.

The exhibition is supported by the Ambassadors of Culture and with the assistance of the French Institute in Ukraine and the Honorary Consul of the French Republic in Odesa.

Кирило Бойко