by Igor Manko The Kharkiv art scene in the mid-1980s felt like a bubble prepared to blast. With Gorbachev owning introduced Perestroika, the totalitarian Soviet condition was grudgingly loosening its ideological grip, but the emerging independence (and the liberty of artistic expression as well) was continue to a moot principle […]
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Kharkiv School of Photography : System Politics. (Non) Soviet Corporeality in Kharkiv Photography of the 1970s – 1990s
By Halyna Hleba Centered on PinchukArtCentre Investigation System materials Modern-day Ukrainian conceptual images commenced in the 1970s in the then Soviet Kharkiv with the emergence of a era of young people who dared to go outside of the Soviet aesthetics. Members of the Vremya art team designed the “blow theory” […]