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April 27, 2025, 3:24 p.m.

Odessa Artist Denis Nedoluzhenko Shows Anti-Imperial Art at Kyiv

Photo: State Special Transport Service

(Photo: State Special Transport Service)

Odesa-based artist Denys Nedoluzhenko, who currently serves as a junior sergeant in the State Special Transport Service, took part in the exhibition "Frontmen: Art of Resistance", which runs from April 24 to 27 in Kyiv.

Theexhibition was held as part of the Book Country Festival and brings together artists whose work reflects on their own experience of war and resistance.

Denys Nedoluzhenko's series Motorola 1917 is an example of artistic deconstruction of Soviet and contemporary Russian imperial myths.

"Before mobilization, I was engaged in painting and ceramics, which was my livelihood, but it was the service that gave a new impetus to my creativity. During my service, I accidentally came across Soviet propaganda literature in old textbooks in the pre-conscription training room. 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 these portraits, deconstructing the myth. This is how the series appeared, where each work became a form of protest and a record of our time of struggle," the artist said.

The artist was born in 1987 in the village of Chyzhove, Bereziv district, Odesa region. He graduated from the I. I. Mechnikov Odesa National University with a degree in microbiology and general virology. Participant of art exhibitions since 2018. He lives and works in Odesa. Works in the genres of painting, sculpture and decorative ceramics. Main directions: expressionism, neo-expressionism and new materiality.

Meanwhile, a posthumous exhibition of photographs "Fault Lines" by the French photographer, winner of many awards, Mathieu Chazal , opened in Odesa . Matthieu Chazal spent almost two decades traveling around the Black and Mediterranean Seas, from the Balkans to the Caucasus, from Greece to Armenia, from Ukraine to Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, documenting war.

Photo: State Special Transport Service

Кирило Бойко

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