Ukraine's GOGOLFEST Becomes the World's Unique Festival by Bringing Together Visual Art, Theater, Cinema And Music

KIEV, Ukraine, September 9, 2010 - During the first days of autumn, Kiev, the capital of Ukraine,
will be home to the annual International Festival of Contemporary Art
GOGOLFEST 2010 for the fourth year running. Bringing together the cream of
the artistic and creative talents from all over Europe, the festival will
feature large-scale theatrical, musical, visual, literary and film programs.
The multidisciplinary event, likely to be one of the cultural arenas of Euro
2012 football championship, is expected to be visited by 170,000 art-lovers.

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"GOGOLFEST, in spite of its name, was not conceived as an
event dedicated solely to Gogol's literary heritage. It is rather a
multidisciplinary venue for public contemplation of the new landscape of the
European artistic and creative mentality. Thus one of our primary missions is
to showcase the new European face of Ukraine and its people", said the
festival's founder Vladislav Troitskiy.

Highlighting the main theme of this year's festival - The Art of Parallel
Reality - GOGOLFEST 2010 opened on September 4 with a mind-boggling
performance staged on Kiev's main square by the well-known Spanish theatrical
group La Fura dels Baus (www.imperiumlafura.com/). The spectacular
show, titled Multiverse and done in co-production with Troitskiy's own Dakh
theatre, featured 100 actors and an impressive 10-meter manikin. The main
idea of the performance, according to the La Fura dels Baus' artistic
director Juergen Mueller (www.imperiumlafura.com/en/director/), is "to
demonstrate the unity and diversity of multiple worlds and to push the
boundaries of what audiences traditionally think of as stage performance."

The program of the festival, which prides itself on artistic
diversity, includes plays produced by Ukrainian, Russian, Italian, Spanish,
Swiss and Hungarian theatres; classical and electro-acoustical modern music;
20 dance parties and live concerts; 15 video and sound installations; and art
house and documentary movies.

Notably, this year's visual program contains no "ready-made" art and
consists of site-specific Visual Art Programme installations (VAP)
(gogolfest.org.ua/eng/program/visual/independent/), which, composed by
the artists here and now, transform dance and movement into unique visual
art.

Media Contact: Tetyana Oliynyk, PR-Director, +380(67)446-75-00, to at gogolfest.org.ua