Art Amidst Conflict: Exhibition in Kyiv
Odessa-based artist Denis Nedoluzhenko, currently serving as a junior sergeant in the State Special Transport Service, participated in the exhibition "FRONTMEN: Art of Resistance," which runs from April 24 to 27 in Kyiv.
The exhibition is part of the "Book Country" festival and brings together artists whose works reflect their personal experiences of war and resistance.
Denis's series titled "Motorola 1917" exemplifies the artistic deconstruction of Soviet and modern Russian imperial myths.
"Before mobilization, I was engaged in painting and ceramics as my livelihood, but service gave a new impetus to my creativity. During my service, I stumbled upon Soviet propaganda literature from old textbooks in the cabinet of pre-conscription training. That's when the idea was born: I imagined myself as a student of that time, forced to study the 'heroes' of the empire, and as a small act of resistance, I began to paint over these portraits, deconstructing the myth. Thus, a series emerged, where each work became a form of protest and a reflection of our time of struggle," the artist recounted.
The artist was born in 1987 in the village of Chyzhove, Berezivka district, Odessa region. He graduated from Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov with a degree in microbiology and general virology. He has been participating in art exhibitions since 2018. He lives and works in Odessa. His work spans painting, sculpture, and decorative ceramics, primarily focusing on expressionism, neo-expressionism, and new materiality.
Meanwhile, a posthumous exhibition of photographs titled "Lines of Fracture" by the award-winning French photographer Mathieu Chazal has opened in Odessa. Mathieu Chazal spent nearly two decades traveling around the Black and Mediterranean Seas, documenting war.
