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This is all belongs to the founder of the museum?
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Collection DEAR. ODNI FRAME FOR LEAFS cost $ MILLION DOLLARS! "
A rich collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures and decorative art XX - early XXI century founder of the museum was going Sergei Liliya Maksimenko for 20 years and has about 4,5 thousand items. According to experts, is the largest collection of works of contemporary art in Ukraine. Private museum area of 3,5 thousand square meters, which took three floors of the building on the street Hlybochytska, 17, which recently located building a supermarket, was able to fit so far only about 700 items.
- How much does the collection? I did not think - says the founder of the museum businessman Sergei Liliya Maksimenko. - Some works were acquired at a time when Ukraine was not the hryvnia, and went coupons. In addition, since the price of painting a very grown up. But the collection of honey. Some picture frames cost a million dollars!
According to the owner of the museum, the collection began with the fact that buying art canvases to decorate offices. Then he got a hobby.
- I never have sold a single canvas! - Says Sergei Liliya Maksimenko. - Just acquired - for collectors, the artists have their heirs, the auction house. In my collection of all Ukrainian schools of painting - Odessa, Lvov, Kharkov, Crimea, Kiev ... In the meeting - the work of Nicholas Glushchenko, Tatiana Yablonska, Adalbert Erdelyi, Alexander Roytburd and many other famous artists. Very fond of landscapes, especially the Crimea. Favorite Artist - Nikolay Bortnikov. In Soviet times he lived closed to anyone not specifically contacted. I managed to get a complete collection of his paintings.
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Many paintings of talented fellow collector managed to return from abroad to show the people of Kiev and guests. Because many Ukrainian artists live and create in the United States, Europe, in Russia.
- We would like to come to our museum, children - says philanthropist. - It is obvious that in society in recent years lost spirituality. Younger generation must see that there is in life wonderful.
Incidentally, the museum will operate the library and art circles for children, planned to hold lectures and master classes, round tables and conferences with the participation of domestic and foreign art critics, artists, gallery owners. In the immediate plans of Sergei Liliya Maksimenko - opening of the museum Ukrainian stone.
- In my collection is a crystal, whose age is estimated at one billion 750 million years, - said Sergey Liliya Maksimenko, who is president of the Association of Jewelers of Ukraine. - You look at him and think: "The witness how many events he was!"
There are also talks with the Swedish Astrid Lindgren's Fund to establish a mini-museum of fairytale characters known writer.
Olga SMETANSKAYA "FACTS"
Additional information on the museum from other publications:
The Museum will run an art library and lecture hall (50-60 seats) for the theoretical and practical events: master classes, lectures, seminars, round tables and conferences, with the invitation of Ukrainian and foreign art critics, artists, curators, gallerists, and all anyone interested in state and problems of contemporary art in Ukraine and its presentation outside of our state.
Admission fee to the museum: adults - 10 UAH (1.25 USD); for students - 5 UAH (0.62 USD).
Children under 16 years old, pensioners, journalists, disabled, military personnel, employees of museums and galleries - free admission.