In his art, the world is beautiful and harmonious, man cherishes the freedom to see the world as he wishes. Dead contemporary art has lost its heart, the organic sense of life, fidelity to instincts, and only the artist’s journey through historical times, contemporary with sudden forays into living reality, can make one feel the source of this most important mystical, inexpressible beginning on which everything around is built – the beauty and perfection of life.
His off-screen image is a great man in the crowd, a sage, a magician, a genuine personality capable of living and enjoying the most sublime life feelings among commoners and pseudo-aesthetes.
When the reflection of Klimenko’s aesthetics falls on social life, it highlights a clear disposition of the current avant-garde, mass culture, personality, and society, within which all the circulation of money, delusions, and power takes place, and through which the artist-warrior walks with a quiet, firm step.Comment type: Published comment
Author: Oleksandr Pokladov, art critic
Bibliography:
Klimenko O. Passionarity as a principle of being / Contemporary art of Ukraine during the Independence period: 100 names // Oleksandr Klimenko. // – Kyiv: Publishing house “Mysl”, 2008. – pp.124-127
Sources: Contemporary art of Ukraine during the independence period: 100 names [Electronic resource] – Access mode to the resource: http://www.100artists.com.ua/arts/1394/1396/6943.html
