Gnylitsky during this period introduces a fashion for unpainted surfaces, paintings appear where there is less and less paint layer and more and more empty canvas surface. Under the influence of the trend away from painting, artists begin to introduce object elements into their works. Sometimes Lera Trubina decorates a work with cute cookies, inserts plastic toy eyes into a cat, and sometimes Gnylitsky in his installation “General Galliani” seriously engages in “baking” his first object – an image of female genitalia made of thermoplastic with inserted rhinestones, later stolen at an exhibition in Edinburgh. All this riot of simplicity has its name – the aesthetics of cutism – naive and direct simplification, a course towards conscious stupefaction and the creation of “cute” art, a light gesture.
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Author: Oleksandr Solovyov, Alisa Lozhkina
Sources: Solovyov A., Lozhkina A. Point Zero [Electronic resource] / A. Lozhkina, O. Solovyov // Contemporary history of Ukrainian art. Part II. Generation at its zenith. 1990 – mid-1992 / Oleksandr Solovyov, Alisa Lozhkina // Special project of TOP10 magazine – 2010. – Access mode to the resource: http://top10-kiev.livejournal.com/281049.html?thread=894681.
