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 | «The 4th Block» — a statement to the United States!Last week an official representative and an esteemed curator of «The 4th Block» triennial — Olga Severina made a formal visit to the sister school of Kharkov Academy of Arts and Design — university of Fort Collins. A heartwarming summit included such events as walks, talks and close encounters of the personal kind with of the world-renowned graphic designer, a highly prized educator of Fort Collins university, and a person, who stands tall above the vast crowds of the designers’ world — professor Phil Risbek. The visit resulted in a comprehensive lecture on the topic of «The 4th Block» poster collection, which was given to an audience of 80 dudes — representatives of the student body, and a small group of another kind — those were member of the instructors’ guild. Thus, a term «The 4th Block» has reached the american masses, and is now living there, amongst them, just like the selected posters of the collection, which are staying in Fort Collins, awaiting the next Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, to which they were honorably invited.
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 | Eco-point. Exhibition of ecological posters from «4th Block’s» collectionNot a long time ago everybody were talking about «ozone hole» like something that is very far, somewhere over Antarctica and thought that these peril some kind of illusion. Nowadays the threat of Global warming became more and more real. Humanity, basically each one of us, has only two ways — change our point of view on local level or be indifference and leave everything like it is and let planet change into a «black hole».
About this problems talks poster exhibition that has just opened at Pavel Gudimov’s Art centre «YaGallery».
To this calm and strict exhibition were selected posters from all over the world.
Works of famous designers give intense to think about humanity’s destiny and also to compare personal feelings with global ecological problems.
July — it’s not an exhibition season, but it was a surprise that a lot of young people and presentatives of the mass media came to «YaGallery» at the opening. Exhibition will be open until 10th of August.
(55/57, Volojskaya str. Kyiv, 04070, phone. 044 537 33 51)
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 | 15.05.2008 «GOGOL-FEST»!"GOGOL-FEST"!"GOGOL-FEST"!Presently, through the 25th of May, a festival of contemporary arts — «GOGOL-fest» is held at Kiev's Art Arsenal. The participants of the event include Kharkiv Academy of Arts and Design and the graphic design association «The 4-th Block». Among the other expositions, the city of Kharkiv submitted to the festival an entire collection of posters dedicated to the significant figures of the Ukrainian culture (curator — Vladimir Lesnyak), picturesque canvases — works of students-monumentalists, and a project «The trinkets. Folk pixel-art» — introduced by Julia Alimova (curator — Olga Severina).
The festival is a continuous carnival of evens, so follow the fest's daily schedule at www.gogolfest.org.ua
More pictures and a place to voice your opinion can be found at: http://community.livejournal.com/4th_block/
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 | Three in oneOn the 27-th of February the walls of Kharkiv Academy of Arts and Design held a thesis defense for a group of young doctoral candidates.
One of the scholars — Oksana Chumachenko presented her work not on one, but on three separate environmental topics.
For her first project she chose to create a brand new graphics' style for the approaching VII triennial «The 4-th BLOCK.» Fresh and innovative design immediately captured imaginations of the examining committee, launching a long and passionate after-defense discussion among the committee members and the curious public. Her second work was a design of a concept style for the upcoming «Contemporary Arts Center.» And for the final piece of her tri-segmented presentation she introduced a design for an inspiring project called «The eco-bag» — an idea that the environmentally unfriendly plastic bag does not necessarily have to be plastic, and that it can be easily replaced by a new, stylish, and, most importantly, much more eco-conscious substitute. Yuliana
More detailed — http://community.livejournal.com/4th_block/695.html
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 | 13.03.08. «Ukrainian breach»Aliona Solomadina has just arrived from her trial at «Fabrica» Benetton`s research center of communication (Treviso, Italy). Look at her, she so happy! «First of all I want to say that this great place is really exists! Second it was very interesting and great experience!» Aliona says.
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