Victor Sydorenko

Victor Sydorenko (* 1953 in Taldy-Kurgan) Kazakhstan. He is an artist of the Ukrainian "New Wave" Movement who lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine.

Education

* 1974-1979: studied at Kharkiv Institute of Applied Arts (professor B.V.Kosarev)
* 1985-1988: Post-Graduate of Creative Studio of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (Academician, Professor S.A. Grigoryev)He is a member of academy of Arts of Ukraine, National Union of Artists of Ukraine

Works and Reception

Born 1953 in Ukraine and having received a well founded, traditional education in painting and art, at Kharkiv Institute of Applied Arts (Professor B.V. Kosarev) and later on finished as a Post Graduate of Creative Studio of the Academy of Arts of the USSR he worked and experienced different periods in the development of modern and contemporary Art in Ukraine. Therefore his works can be considered as a pathway, slight and constant transition between Modernism and Contemporary Art, which find themselves combined in a transitional state that provoke the magnificent tension of the time. While working as an artist he also teaches as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Arts. In 2001 he founded the Modern Research Institute of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine and since 2002 is Professor of Kharkhiv Academy of Design and Arts. His personal activities are constantly combined with official projects which also reflect the philosophical point of his works that mostly contemplate about the co-existence of society and the individual but also about the general structures and mechanism of the human finding itself in the process of life, determined and produced by structures outside human reach, within life though develops. 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. 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. Referring to the cultural globalization and the appearance of “intermedia”painting, media revolution has principally changed forms and ways of transmitting of reflected world and pronounced priority of screen vector in contemporary visual culture. Today the painted image becomes growingly variable, interactive, systematic. The statics is replaced by dynamics and the process. Here the artist relates to the state of development of “Ukrainian New Wave” that evolved at the beginning of the 90's and is the source of Ukrainian Contemporary Art with its theory of the “death of the author” and the concept “Painting after Painting”. In 2003 he presented his work at the 50th Vennice Biennal in Italy. Meanwhile he curated a series of projects and is author of several Catalogues and Articles referring to his works, which are exhibited in a number of Museums.

Curatoral Projects

* 2003: Millstones of Time, Ukrainian project at the 50 Venice Biennale, (catalogue, CD-ROM)
* 2002: Art of Ukraine, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, (catalogue)
* 2000, 2002, 2005: New Directions; Kiev, Ukraine
* 1999, 2002: Triennale of Sculpture, (catalogue), Kyiv, Ukraine
* 1998, 2001, 2004: Triennale of Painting, (catalogue), Kyiv, Ukraine
* 1997, 2000, 2003: Triennale of Graphic Arts, (catalogue), Kyiv, Ukraine

olo exhibitions

* 2006: Authentification, Lavra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (catalogue)
* 2003: Lora D. Art gallery, Chicago, USA
* 2003: Millstones of Time, 50th Venice Biennale, (catalogue, CD-ROM)
* 2000-2001: Aral cycle, Maysternya gallery, Kyiv
* 1998: Pendelton Art Centre, Cincinnati, USA
* 1996: State Fine Arts Museum of Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata

Group exhibitions

* 2007: Traverse Video, X International Video Festival, Toulouse, France (catalogue)
* 2006: Eastern Neighbors, International Art Festival, Cultural Center Babel, Utrecht, Netherlands (catalogue)
* 2005: Now, V. International Art Festival in Magdeburg, Germany (catalogue)
* 2004: Faster than History, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
* 2004: Farewell, the weapon, Museum of Contemporary Art «Arsenal», Kyiv, Ukraine (catalogue)
* 2003: Blood: Lines and Connections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
* 2003: Eurographic – 2003, Lavra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
* 2002: Art of Ukraine, Beijing, China
* 2002: Art of nations, (1992-2002), Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, (catalogue)

Collections

*National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
*Kharkive Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
*Krasnograd Museum of Regional Studies, Ukraine
*Stakhanov Museum of History and Fine Arts, Ukraine
*Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
*Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine
*?Ismayil Art Gallery, Ukraine
*Yale University, School of Art, USA
*Collection of Karin -Simon Kutschke, Luneburg, Germany
*Collection of Jean Jaques Ludovikovich Viella, Versailles, France
*Collection of Wolfgang Beckers and Berbel Kroll, Laugenfeld, Germany
*Collection of Peter Schunk, Berlin, Germany
*Collection of Y.A. Yevtushenko, Moscow, Russia
*President’s Palace, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
*Collection of A.A.Ivanov, Kyiv, Ukraine
*Collection of “Real-Bank”, Kharkiv, Ukraine
*Collection of “Mega-Bank”, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Literature

* From Red to Yellow to Blue, Ludmila Bereznitsky, Kiev 2004
* Persha Konnektija, Kiev, 2003
* Millstones of Time, Victor Sydorenko, verschiedene Autoren, 2003, Ukraine

External links

* http://www.sydorenko.kiev.ua/01e.htm