July 27 – 31, 2012
Paintings that send messages, objects that intricate, video that intrigues, slideshow that teases and performance that provokes by Vladimir Yakovets
Yakovets from Cherkassy was one of the brightest and the most hopelessly sick with the new art patient that came in the end of 1980s. His every single action was transforming into arevolutionaryact that undermined the foundations of morality and social realism. Old hands from the local Union of Artists were cut up rough; young artists were delighted with it and joined Yakovets’s “Sondercommando”. It was first street-art in Ukraine, first art-objects in front of the local public office, performances with naked girls and without them.
The exhibition will present the last big series: “Ideal”, “Blue Sculpture”, “Language”, "Alphabet", "Antiki", "Antiki2" and "Refleckion” will be presented in the gallery. He not only creates large range of works of his art, he is also working with the secondary images, that well-known as photo, video or something other. A photo of Roman sculpture portrait is transferred on the canvas, painted and covered by the "informational noise” of civilization, then it’s combined with dozens of the same prototypes into one huge monumental panel. You feel like being present at the construction site of Tower of Babel, but here you don’t feel the fear of the apocalypse. Vladimir Yakovets covered the front wall by salutary mantras in finger language. We all will understand each other, we all will be saved - the master is angry when someone is talking about End of the world.
