Victor Sydorenko - Work

Work

Victor Sydorenko is one of leaders of Modern Ukrainian Art. Victor's pathway from realism to neoavant-gardism is first of all a tribute to the full freedom of creativity of the last generation that grown and was working at a totalitarian regime. 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. Such specific realities of our time as the memory problems, a heritage of posttotalitarian rudiments, the questions of identification of the person in the modern world which is becoming more and more complicated, the prospects of the person in new globalised model of life-construction, enter into the sphere of creative interests of the artist. Besides, the research orientation of its creativity also concerns the past, but with underlined deideologized relation to a cultural heritage, with the use of possibilities of an arsenal of new media.

From the moment of creation of the project "Amnesia" (1995) the idea of «the renewal in memory of fragments of the past» will not leave Victor Sidorenko's creative consciousness and every following project will be constructed on the basis of the concrete experience of the childhood, adolescence, youth.

The totalitarianism theme in its any forms and displays becomes the object of research of the Sydorenko in the project «Ritual dances» (1997). The author considers it as the global phenomenon of the ideological unfreedom, whether a political mode, whether sectarianism, religious dictatorship in which everything is directed on absorption of the person not only in spiritual way, but also in physical one. The project meaningly excludes any spatial and time concreteness and it is deprived of reflexions concerning the Soviet past. Its main task is to display the especial sensation of a paroxysm, crisis and spiritual degradation which are present at consciousness of the person living in the totalitarian validity.

Total collapse of system of traditional-humanistic values is presented in the project "Cytochronismus" (2002) in which impressive craquelures personifie «asthenic syndrome». The artist gets into the theme of microstructures of the world and of the communication with the real world, influences, and also actions of spiritual space.

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 exhibitional 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.

The searches of own identity in social collective are finished by the triumph of the unification. This is how the artist suggests to decipher the word-hybrid taken out in the name of an exposition of "Authentification" (2006). Victor Sydorenko does not stop here: the mechanism which is put in action and is generating metaphors, forces the author to make out a mummification prototype in a banal hairstyle. This triumph of a body looks like the transformation of a trunk into a preform for the plaster dummy which will definitively replace the person in society is cast. Only this dummy still has a chance to survive and find immortality.

In the project "Levitation" (2008–2009), the artist gives an advantage to the optical illusive game which is created by dense and viscous red colour and by the space with large-format picturesque planes and installation. Man's figures stretched out and soaring in air, are forcing to lose reference points and coordinates, and even yourself.