Victor Sydorenko
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Victor Sydorenko is a painter, curator, teacher, an author of objects and photocompositions and also scientific and publicistic texts. Since 1997 he is the member and the vice-president of Ukrainian Academy of Arts. In 2001 Sydorenko has founded and has headed Modern Art Research Institute of Ukraine.
After completing his secondary education and doing his military service Sydorenko enters Kharkov Art-Industrial Institute (the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts) from which in 1979 he graduates with the degree with distinction.
The student of the professor, the winner of The USSR State Prize
, B.Kosarev, in 1981 becomes the post-graduate student of the creative workshops of the Art School of the USSR. (The supervisor of studies – the academician, the professor, the member of Academy of arts of the USSR, the Winner of The USSR State Prize, S.Grigorev)
At the same time Victor is working as an art director of the film "The Anatomy of the miracle", director V.Ivanov).
From the moment of creation of the project "Amnesia" (1995) the idea of «the renewal in memory of fragments of the past» will not leave Victor Sidorenko's creative consciousness and every following project will be constructed on the basis of the concrete experience of the childhood, adolescence, youth.
The totalitarianism theme in its any forms and displays becomes the object of research of the Sydorenko in the project «Ritual dances» (1997). The author considers it as the global phenomenon of the ideological unfreedom, whether a political mode, whether sectarianism, religious dictatorship in which everything is directed on absorption of the person not only in spiritual way, but also in physical one. The project meaningly excludes any spatial and time concreteness and it is deprived of reflexions concerning the Soviet past. Its main task is to display the especial sensation of a paroxysm, crisis and spiritual degradation which are present at consciousness of the person living in the totalitarian validity.
Total collapse of system of traditional-humanistic values is presented in the project "Cytochronismus" (2002) in which impressive craquelures personifie «asthenic syndrome». The artist gets into the theme of microstructures of the world and of the communication with the real world, influences, and also actions of spiritual space.
With his project "Millstones of Time", kept in neoclassic trend he created an outstanding, multilayered work, which special feature is its work in process. This becomes obvious in its ability to gain different modifications depending from concrete exhibtional space without losing its main concept, as well as in presupposed consistent flexibility of perception of all its media components. This supports the fair thesis that the integrity of optics of the "current moment" is rather the totality of fragments understood in the process, in movement of feelings and modeled by thinking, imagination, nostalgically seeking the unity and coherency.
The searches of own identity in social collective are finished by the triumph of the unification. This is how the artist suggests to decipher the word-hybrid taken out in the name of an exposition of "Authentification" (2006). Victor Sydorenko does not stop here: the mechanism which is put in action and is generating metaphors, forces the author to make out a mummification prototype in a banal hairstyle. This triumph of a body looks like the transformation of a trunk into a preform for the plaster dummy which will definitively replace the person in society is cast. Only this dummy still has a chance to survive and find immortality.
In the project "Levitation" (2008–2009), the artist gives an advantage to the optical illusive game which is created by dense and viscous red colour and by the space with large-format picturesque planes and installation. Man's figures stretched out and soaring in air, are forcing to lose reference points and coordinates, and even yourself.
Biography
Victor was born in a family subjected to repression by a Stalin regime. At the age of 8 he takes an interest in the painting, at the age of 10 - in the photography.After completing his secondary education and doing his military service Sydorenko enters Kharkov Art-Industrial Institute (the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts) from which in 1979 he graduates with the degree with distinction.
The student of the professor, the winner of The USSR State Prize
USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize was the Soviet Union's state honour. It was established on September 9, 1966. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation....
, B.Kosarev, in 1981 becomes the post-graduate student of the creative workshops of the Art School of the USSR. (The supervisor of studies – the academician, the professor, the member of Academy of arts of the USSR, the Winner of The USSR State Prize, S.Grigorev)
At the same time Victor is working as an art director of the film "The Anatomy of the miracle", director V.Ivanov).
Work
Victor Sydorenko is one of leaders of Modern Ukrainian Art. Victor's pathway from realism to neoavant-gardism is first of all a tribute to the full freedom of creativity of the last generation that grown and was working at a totalitarian regime. Time, Memory and History are the central idea of the project , which extrapolated their polyvariance and different readings into the language of visual images and construction. Such specific realities of our time as the memory problems, a heritage of posttotalitarian rudiments, the questions of identification of the person in the modern world which is becoming more and more complicated, the prospects of the person in new globalised model of life-construction, enter into the sphere of creative interests of the artist. Besides, the research orientation of its creativity also concerns the past, but with underlined deideologized relation to a cultural heritage, with the use of possibilities of an arsenal of new media.From the moment of creation of the project "Amnesia" (1995) the idea of «the renewal in memory of fragments of the past» will not leave Victor Sidorenko's creative consciousness and every following project will be constructed on the basis of the concrete experience of the childhood, adolescence, youth.
The totalitarianism theme in its any forms and displays becomes the object of research of the Sydorenko in the project «Ritual dances» (1997). The author considers it as the global phenomenon of the ideological unfreedom, whether a political mode, whether sectarianism, religious dictatorship in which everything is directed on absorption of the person not only in spiritual way, but also in physical one. The project meaningly excludes any spatial and time concreteness and it is deprived of reflexions concerning the Soviet past. Its main task is to display the especial sensation of a paroxysm, crisis and spiritual degradation which are present at consciousness of the person living in the totalitarian validity.
Total collapse of system of traditional-humanistic values is presented in the project "Cytochronismus" (2002) in which impressive craquelures personifie «asthenic syndrome». The artist gets into the theme of microstructures of the world and of the communication with the real world, influences, and also actions of spiritual space.
With his project "Millstones of Time", kept in neoclassic trend he created an outstanding, multilayered work, which special feature is its work in process. This becomes obvious in its ability to gain different modifications depending from concrete exhibtional space without losing its main concept, as well as in presupposed consistent flexibility of perception of all its media components. This supports the fair thesis that the integrity of optics of the "current moment" is rather the totality of fragments understood in the process, in movement of feelings and modeled by thinking, imagination, nostalgically seeking the unity and coherency.
The searches of own identity in social collective are finished by the triumph of the unification. This is how the artist suggests to decipher the word-hybrid taken out in the name of an exposition of "Authentification" (2006). Victor Sydorenko does not stop here: the mechanism which is put in action and is generating metaphors, forces the author to make out a mummification prototype in a banal hairstyle. This triumph of a body looks like the transformation of a trunk into a preform for the plaster dummy which will definitively replace the person in society is cast. Only this dummy still has a chance to survive and find immortality.
In the project "Levitation" (2008–2009), the artist gives an advantage to the optical illusive game which is created by dense and viscous red colour and by the space with large-format picturesque planes and installation. Man's figures stretched out and soaring in air, are forcing to lose reference points and coordinates, and even yourself.
Awards
- 1996, Kiev, Ukraine. The winner of "Golden section" at Art festival.
- 2000, Kiev, Ukraine. The winner of "the Gold Palette» on "Millennium-opening day".
- 2003, Kiev, Ukraine. Golden Medal of Ukrainian Academy of Arts.
- 2005, Magdebourg, Germany. The author of the best project of V International Festival of Arts.
Biennials
- 2003 - “Millstones of time”, the personal project at 50th International exhibition of the modern art in VeniceVenice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
. The author and the curator of the project. - 2007 - «The poem about an internal sea», the Ukrainian project at 52nd International exhibition of the modern art in VeniceVenice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
. The co-curator.
Collections
- National Art Museum of UkraineNational Art Museum of UkraineThe National Art Museum of Ukraine is a museum dedicated to Ukrainian art in Kiev, Ukraine.-Architecture:Constructed in 1898, by architect Vladislav Gorodetsky, the building was originally designed as the museum for the local society of patrons of arts and antique lovers...
- Kharkiv Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
- Krasnograd Museum of Regional Studies, Ukraine
- Stakhanov Museum of History and Fine Arts, Ukraine
- Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMAKiasmaKiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...
, HelsinkiHelsinkiHelsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
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- Ismayil Art Gallery, Ukraine
- Yale University, School of ArtYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, USA - Collection of Jean Jaques Ludovikovich Viella, Versailles, FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
- Collection of Wolfgang Beckers and Berbel Kroll, Laugenfeld, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
- Collection of Peter Schunk, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... - Collection of Y.A. Yevtushenko, MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... - President's Palace, Alma-Ata, KazakhstanKazakhstanKazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
Scientific Essays
- Вдосконалювати художній процес (To improve an art process) //Образотворче мистецтво (Visual art). 1987. № 5;
- На переломі (On crisis) // Образотворче мистецтво (Visual art). 1988. № 2;
- Проникнення в таємницю вічності (The penetration into the secret of eternity) // Образотворче мистецтво (Visual art). 1994. № 2;
- Венеціанські Бієнале і проблеми сучасного мистецтва в Україні. (The Venetian Biennials and modern art problems in Ukraine) В зб.: Сучасне мистецтво (Modern Art). Вип. 1. К., 2004;
- Непосредственность восприятия (The spontaneity of perception) // Понедельник (The Monday). 2004. №14;
- Мистецьке одкровення Харкова. (The creative revelation of Kharkov) В зб.: Сучасне мистецтво ((Modern Art)). Вип. 3. К., 2006;
- Візуальне мистецтво від авангардних зрушень до новітніх спрямувань. (The visual art from vanguard shifts to the newest directions) К., 2008. (The monographic research);
- FIAC 08: погляд зблизька (FIAC 08: Sight at a short distance) //Курсив (The italics). - 2009. - №2.
See also
- Ukrainian Academy of Arts
- Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of ArtsModern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of ArtsModern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts is a unique institute in Ukraine that exercises the fundamental scientific researches in the field of all kinds of the modern art, the practical and search studios directed on development of the professional modern art and architecture,...