Blinded by Beauty in Modern Art Research Institute Ukraine

See photo from exhibition at http://www.artcult.org.ua/en/project/14

Albina Yaloza, Alina Gordiyenko, Alina Yakubenko, Alyona Naumenko, Anatoliy Belov, Anatoliy Gankevych, Andriy Sydorenko, Anton Logov, Arsen Savadov, Artem Volokitin, Daniil Galkin,DIS/ORDER, Igor Gusev, Illya Chichkan, Ivan Svitlychny, Ganna Myronova, Konstyantyn Pavlyshyn, Maryna Talyutto, Mykola Tolmachov, Mykyta Kravtsov, Myroslav Vaida, Nataliya Shulte, Nazar Bilyk, Oleg Tistol, Oleksandr Babak, Oleksandr Roytburd, Oleksandr Vereshchak, Oleksiy Horoshko, Oleksiy Sai, Oleksiy Zolotaryov, Olena Polyashchenko, Sergiy Petlyuk, Sergiy Popov, Stepan Ryabchenko,Taras Kamennoy, Taras Kovach, Tetyana Malinovska, Tiberiy Silvashi, Viktor Sydorenko, Vlada Ralko, Volodymyr Sai, Volodymyr Vorotnyov, Yuriy Solomko, Yuriy Syvyryn, Zoya Orlova
Project director: Natalia Shpytkovska Curator: Victoria Burlaka


Contemporary Art is generally accepted as a quite "tough" phenomenon. It is difficult to call it "beautiful", rather - outrageous and nihilistic. Can we presume existence of aesthetic perception today? Or the value of the "beauty " remains the prerogative of art history?

Beauty did not save the world, but perhaps will do, as its search is a perpetual process. Ukrainian artists participating in the project confirm viability of beauty in all its manifestations. Although, hardly can be considered as "adepts of beauty", Ukrainian artists can literally be called adherents of bright visuality, still affecting our emotional receptors.

Contemporary art is not talking by aesthetics, but breathing - so far as it remains an art. Artists research different versions of beauty - old and new, classic and modern. Beauty has many faces. Sometimes almost invisible, it may be perceived only by touch, for those unable to see ...

Music: Liquid Break - Make Some F.... Noise (Hidden Element Breezless Re noise)
Video: Alexander Pokshyvanov