“Digital Yard No. 3” of the “G.V.Kh.” group. Exhibition press release
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“Digital Yard №3” of the group “G.V.K.”
Exhibition press release
Three Ukrainian artists — Olena Holub, Hlib Vysheslavskyi, and Volodymyr Kharchenko (group “G.V.K.”), well known for their experimental works in contemporary art, are presenting the exhibition “Digital Yard №3” in Amsterdam this October. The name of the creative association “G.V.K.” consists of the first letters of the artists’ surnames, each of whom has come to use digital technology in their works by their own path.
The Ukrainian artists are presented in the Netherlands by the Gallery of the Foundation for the Promotion of Arts Development and the Embassy of Ukraine in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Amsterdam). The exhibition takes place in Amsterdam, Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 28, and from October 3 to 26 the works can be seen at the Stichting WG Kunst gallery.
Modern society widely uses progressive technologies primarily in the entertainment industry, consumer goods advertising, and other commercial purposes. The group “G.V.K.” sets itself the difficult task of finding a place for truly artistic creativity in this well-established machine, and not just applied service to commerce, which many designers, directors of “tasty” clips, etc., are forced to do. Using the mentioned aesthetic manifestations as documents of the time, the artists deprive them of pragmatic functionality in their compositions.
Thus, Olena Holub’s prints are mostly “directed” in a cognitive vector. Each of her digital sheets is created on the border of temporal and mental intersection, drawn from the history and present of Ukraine. She mixes scenes from street life, where teenagers write graffiti, passersby enjoy hot dogs against the backdrop of majestic monuments erected in urban space to outstanding philosophers of the past, masters of words, brush, and classical music.
Hlib Vysheslavskyi’s photo works explore the interaction of the domestic, intimate expression of personality in public space. Compositions with laundry drying in the yard unfold an epic story of human existence. They emphasize the vulnerability and temporariness of the warmth of freshly worn clothes in a magnificent architectural ensemble created for the needs of society, where more than one generation of such creatures lived: children, youths, girls, women, men, and finally, frail elderly without signs of gender…
Volodymyr Kharchenko’s digital metagraphies capture significant moments from the urban environment as if an instantaneous, fleeting, but powerful, like lightning, contact between the individual and the social is taking place. The flow of street life, where everyone hurries with many tasks and without tasks, obeying the rhythm, still allows the manifestation, albeit momentary, of eternal poetry, which, transformed, lives in the thoughts and works of the artist of the new millennium.
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Link to the document object: DIGITAL YARD № 3
