Gennadiy Kim's Reflections of the Invisible Exhibition Opens in Odesa

On March 20, the Odesa Municipal Museum of Personal Collections named after A.V. Bleshchunov opened an exhibition by artist, theologian, and teacher Gennadiy Kim entitled Reflections of the Invisible. The museum presents new works created over the past two years.

An Intent correspondent visited the exhibition.

Gennadiy Kim (1965) works in the technique of pointillism (from the French point). This is a stylistic trend characterized by the use of the effect of optical color mixing directly on the viewer's retina, which makes it possible to create complex color effects of painting that are impossible to reproduce with mechanical mixtures of paints.

Photo: Intent, Nata Chernetska

The artist says that this is how he works with the viewer's emotional state. The same painting will "appear" differently every time. Thus, we enter a fairy-tale space and each painting can become a parable.

Kim believes that the main idea of his painting is to convey the invisible world through the visible means of fine art. "This approach gives us the opportunity to feel thoughts and ideas through color and composition. After all, a painting is a kind of reflection of the unknown - an expression through visible images of what is difficult to explain in words."

Photo: Intent, Nata Chernetska

These principles have become the basis for art therapy, which allows you to feel and solve spiritual and emotional problems with the help of color, Kim believes.

Maria Apryatova, the head of exhibitions at the Bleshchunov Museum, notes that the artist is able to convey the shades of sacred space.

"In this way, Kim becomes a kind of guide to the invisible mysterious world," she believes.

Kim graduated from the M.B. Grekov Odesa Art School in 1994. His first solo exhibition was held in 2004 at the Odesa Art Museum. The second was at the Bleshchunov Museum in 2023.

In the new compositions, the artist uses acrylic paint for the first time, which makes the works look more contrasting.

The artist has developed his own art therapy program and will hold creative meetings for everyone on Saturday, March 22 at 13:00.

The exhibition at the Odesa Museum of Personal Collections named after O.V. Bleshchunov will run until April 15.

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