The book “Fedir Tetyanych. FRYPULIA” is now available in English in PDF format

This book explores the life and work of Fedir Tetianych (1942–2007), a Ukrainian artist whose practice spanned happenings, painting, drawing, objects, and installations in public space. Tetianych is known primarily for his concept of “Frypulia,” which eventually became his second name.

Fedir Tetianych came into his own as an artist in the late 1960s, when the Khrushchev Thaw was still reverberating across the USSR while Arte Povera and Fluxus were gaining prominence in Europe and the USA. Viewing his life as a continuous performance, Tetianych developed an artistic practice that in many ways paralleled these movements. At the same time, he did not shy away from executing monumental state-commissioned works for the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition “Fedir Tetianych. The Canon of Frypulia,” organized by the Research Platform of PinchukArtCentre.

This English online version of the publication was conceived and realized within the framework of the project “Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Art from Ukraine,” developed in Dresden in 2023.

Editors:
Tatiana Kochubinska
Tetiana Zhmurko

Texts:
Inna Bulkina
Tetiana Zhmurko
Tatiana Kochubinska
Valeriy Sakharuk

Dresden State Art Collections
Director General: Marion Ackermann
Curators: Maria Isserlis, Tatiana Kochubinska

The publication was kindly supported by the Federal Foreign Office and the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation.

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