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27 October 2008 10:36

Artist Sergey Yakutovych Receives Award For Developing National Cinema

October 26, 2008, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko took part in the closing ceremony of the 38th Kyiv International Molodist Film Festival.

Mrs. Yushchenko presented the For Developing National Cinema special award, founded by Ukraine 3000 Foundation. This year it was awarded to renowned Ukrainian artist Serhiy Yakutovych.

“We know this man as a talented and original painter, worthy continuer of the Ukrainian tradition, whose works are on display in many galleries and museums throughout the world,” Mrs. Kateryna said, presenting this year’s laureate.

“Serhiy Yakutovych can see through the envelope of a phenomenon and see the historical reality in its fluidity and finiteness,” art critics write about his works. Yakutovych has created over 100 series of illustrations to Shakespeare, Galsworthy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dumas, etc. He is also author of the grand Mazepiana series, bringing him the National Shevchenko Prize in 2004.

Serhiy Yakutovych was artistic director of the Prayer for Hetman Mazepa film, directed by Yuri Illenko. It was owing to his work that the critics called this film “a painted movie,” emphasizing the artist’s contribution into its phantasmagorical imagery. Yakutovych also worked on the films Taras Bulba, The Last Hetman, and When We Were Still Cossacks: Circle Two.

The artist’s works are preserved in museums of Ukraine, Russia, France, Spain, Poland, Italy, and Germany. The critics labeled Yakutovych’s style as “heraldic” because of its elaborated details.

The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation founded the For Developing National Cinema special award in 2003 to celebrate outstanding participants of the cinema process in Ukraine, making a considerable contribution into promoting globally the Ukrainian cinema. Its previous laureates were film director Roman Balayan (2003), film director Kira Muratova (2004), actress Larysa Kadochnikova (2005), founder and director of the Filmotekhnik Company Anatoly Kokush (2006), and Head of the State Cinema Committee Hanna Chmil (2007).