November, 4-18 — "Hidden Worlds" exhibition in Kharkiv, City Art Gallery
The exhibition presented photoes of the best land-art objects, had been created whithin the festivals “Sheshory`2003-2008”. Their authors are Ukrainian land artists, who are well known both in Ukraine and beyond its borders.
Images, which became the metaphors of the meeting of the material and ideal, nature and human worlds at “Sheshory”, were created by Petro Bevza, Andriy Gurenko, Myroslav Vayda, Oleksiy Lytvynenko, Ilona Silvashy, Yaroslav Prysyazhnyuk, Ganna Sidorenko, Sergiy Yakunin, Ganna Naduda, Gennadiy Donets, Zhanna Kadyrova, Anatliy Belov, Aleksandro Guzzetti, Oleksandr Nykytiuk, Volodymyr Nois, Orysya Nychyporuk and othrs. During five years the land-artists works were fixed by photo of Vadim Ilkov. His photo are stricktly documentory ones, as far as the main task was to show the land artist`s idea with maximum correspondence without any other auther interpretation.
«Return» of land-art to the galleries this time is accompanied by new independent art work – audio-visual object by vj Glow ( VJ-group “CUBE”) based on the works by Petra Bevza, Andriy Gurenko, Myroslav Vaida and other authors. Noisy music was created by composer Danilo Pertcev especially for this work. It underlines the contrast between urban and natural environment. Video- and audio tension, which is habitual for the citizen of big modern city, first of all is required to listen to the further silence and look to the photo of land – art objects like to the “windows” to the surroundings.