Melting Clouds Production
SENSATIONS
Oleksandr Babak / Olena Blank / Volodymyr Budnikov / Badri Gubianuri / Anton Logov / Ivan Nebesnyk Volodymyr Runchak / Tiberii Silvashi / Ruslan Tremba / Igor Yanovych / Yuriy Yaremchuk / Melting Clouds
I feel... a word that discredited itself as a tool of art criticism at the beginning of the 20th century, and to which all seekers of "new sincerity" in modern art rightly return today. Art center I Gallery and curator Pavlo Gudimov offer to "feel" the new project, because it appeals not only to the eye, but also to other human senses.
On the one hand, "I feel!" is a continuation of the art center's work on projects that implement the idea of "dialogue" between different types, genres of art, eras and cultural layers. This is also the project "People's Current", in which curators Lidia Likhach and Pavlo Gudimov, with the participation of the Ivan Gonchar Museum of the UNCC, find parallels, or on the contrary - reveal oppositions - in folk, naïve and modern Ukrainian art. And the "Dialogue" project, in which the abstract painting of Ihor Yanovych and sacred wooden sculpture of the 18th - 19th centuries interact.
On the other hand, "I feel!" goes much further in its interdisciplinarity and builds several parallel spaces. First of all, this is Pavlo Gudimov's first curatorial attempt to go beyond purely visual art and "connect" music not as a background frame, but as a full-fledged participant in the project. Having invited nine Ukrainian artists, who provided their abstract works, and three composers - representatives of different directions (modern academic music, electronica and modern jazz) to participate in the exhibition, the curator creates a completely independent statement from these elements: "I always noticed how the space changes depending on the music. How music affects the feeling not only of space, not only of time, but also of everything around us," says Pavlo Gudimov himself.
"I feel it!" is also a certain experiment from the point of view of the organization of the exhibition. The art center, like any museum or gallery, is a rather refined space, which, due to its "purity", allows the viewer to most adequately perceive art as art. In the project "I feel!" the curator deliberately includes an installation of comfortable furniture and headphones in the exhibition, which creates a certain level of tactile comfort (the sense of touch is also "turned on" here) and literally "forces" the viewer to turn off intellectual and psychological filters and become part of this newly formed triumvirate of senses - sight, hearing and touch In the words of Pavel Gudimov himself: "In this project, there can be no perception at the level of "this is not my art", "I don't understand it" - such phrases simply have no right to life. Feel it! And enjoy your sensations!"
I feel... a word that discredited itself as a tool of art criticism at the beginning of the 20th century, and to which all seekers of "new sincerity" in modern art rightly return today. Art center I Gallery and curator Pavlo Gudimov offer to "feel" the new project, because it appeals not only to the eye, but also to other human senses.
On the one hand, "I feel!" is a continuation of the art center's work on projects that implement the idea of "dialogue" between different types, genres of art, eras and cultural layers. This is also the project "People's Current", in which curators Lidia Likhach and Pavlo Gudimov, with the participation of the Ivan Gonchar Museum of the UNCC, find parallels, or on the contrary - reveal oppositions - in folk, naïve and modern Ukrainian art. And the "Dialogue" project, in which the abstract painting of Ihor Yanovych and sacred wooden sculpture of the 18th - 19th centuries interact.
On the other hand, "I feel!" goes much further in its interdisciplinarity and builds several parallel spaces. First of all, this is Pavlo Gudimov's first curatorial attempt to go beyond purely visual art and "connect" music not as a background frame, but as a full-fledged participant in the project. Having invited nine Ukrainian artists, who provided their abstract works, and three composers - representatives of different directions (modern academic music, electronica and modern jazz) to participate in the exhibition, the curator creates a completely independent statement from these elements: "I always noticed how the space changes depending on the music. How music affects the feeling not only of space, not only of time, but also of everything around us," says Pavlo Gudimov himself.
"I feel it!" is also a certain experiment from the point of view of the organization of the exhibition. The art center, like any museum or gallery, is a rather refined space, which, due to its "purity", allows the viewer to most adequately perceive art as art. In the project "I feel!" the curator deliberately includes an installation of comfortable furniture and headphones in the exhibition, which creates a certain level of tactile comfort (the sense of touch is also "turned on" here) and literally "forces" the viewer to turn off intellectual and psychological filters and become part of this newly formed triumvirate of senses - sight, hearing and touch In the words of Pavel Gudimov himself: "In this project, there can be no perception at the level of "this is not my art", "I don't understand it" - such phrases simply have no right to life. Feel it! And enjoy your sensations!"
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