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Oksana Barshinova
The Art historian
UKRAINIAN CONTEMPORARY ART: FROM 1980 TO 2000
More than twenty-year old history of Ukrainian contemporary art (the beginning is a historical representation of "Cleopatra's Sorrow" by Arseniy Savadov and Yuriy Senchenko at youth exhibition in Moscow in 1987), gives an impressive list of names, events, and works. A considerable age is obviously an important development phase of our native art of the end of 20th - the beginning of 21 century. It may seem strange, but the whole layer of contemporary art, - with numerous exhibition projects, with the acknowledged artists, with the galleries and collectors, -remains "yeasty space with unclear borders" (G. Yelshevskaya) in the public mind. Moreover, there are a number of reasons for it....
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Matthew Bown
writer, curator
In Ukraine people still...
In Ukraine people still usually do not speak aloud of a role of a gallery in an artist's coming of age. The hindrance is the superstition similar to the one which in the pre-Bolshevik epoch prevented people from speaking of icon buying; you could only "barter" it (for money of course). As they say, this art, it is our Sacred thing, and money should not be involved.
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Maria Gaiduk
culturologist
PROSPECTS AND DIRECTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
The most general definition of contemporary art is that it is art from the beginning of World War II until nowadays. However, this determination describes only chronological boarders, without any hint on a true sense. Historians define these years as "turning point in consciousness" and "time of change in artistic paradigms". These phenomenons are derivative from the present (present reality) and should be examined in social and cultural aspects.
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Elena Martynuk
art critic, curator
What is new in New York?
New York is an infected city, and millions of people being arriving there, in hope that it contagious. The bacillus of art, as bacillus of Koch (by the way, this comparison belongs to Malevich), made mouldering and rotten not only
recognized canons of style in art, advertising, and dresses of the Williamsburg girls, but also some subway stations, which suffered, it seems,
exactly from that virus...
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Anatoliy Ulyanov
Ulcers of Ukrainian Art process
1. An art criticism. War and Peace.
There is an opinion that professional art critic is an easy-tempered contemplator, a sober analyst, who dreams about being objective. His main task is to analyze an artwork and identify its place and role on the art map and inside the historical epoch. A professional critic answers the questions: What kind of an artwork is it? What did artist mean? Does the artwork correspond to context (to both local and global)? Is it an event? Is artistic expression is clear enough?
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Vladimir Fadeev
About parallel worlds so far
It happens that freedom brings surprises. Getting rid of settled reference points and former connections throws out in space of vagueness, where it is necessary to be newly redefined, to discover the stability points in an incoherent variety and to build up at least any relations, including with one's own. Frequently, such a ranging is carried out by means of reproduction and former repetition, thus, being under a great risk to save things, which where aimed to get rid of. It happens so, that unfettered one does not recognize the signs of his past in his present, as though there is no influence of the outer changes on himself and new terms of existence will not claim new self- determinations.
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Maria Khrushchak
art critic, curator
Labeled "TSEKH"
The process is debugged here. New exhibition opens every three weeks. New young Ukrainian authors represent contemporary art here. Native contemporary art is a main field for "ZEH" and
for few more art institutions in Kiev, which would rather work with well-known, famous artists.
The main feature of "TSEKH" is a "production" of new names.
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Modern art look at folk and nude
"What’s on" about «Chimeria », project by artist Igor Pekerlita.
‘Chimeria’ is the first personal Kyiv project by the contemporary
artist from the Western Ukrainian city of Galych, Igor Pereklita. Working outside the metropolis,
Igor’s work remains uninfluenced by the art trends of the city giving it a uniqueness and singularity:
you won’t see anything like this anywhere else. He is very frank, very exact, and this exhibition is
a satirical attack on the process of building a national identity as experienced by Ukraine over the
past 16 years.
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