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Nataliya Shevchenko: In art as in agriculture fruitfulness depends on potential possibilities: sowing, soil fertility, techniques supply, mineral fertilizers… We'll gather the harvest and we'll distribute it to everybody who needs it. |
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Robert Saller: "Madness" deserves attention and money so much the more. |
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Andriy Stehura: One is born as an artist or he becomes an artist if there is a need |
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Marsel Onisko: Stay hungry and sleepy |
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Vadym Kharabaruk: Art is one of the most ancient instruments, which favours the harmony in the attitudes of man and world. |
"Pop-Trans" (popular transformation) formation appeared in 1994. The artists began their activities with studying and interconnecting the aesthetics of totalitaristic culture of the Soviet epoch and the heritage or the features of the pop-culture of the West. To confirm their activities and to approve the status of popular transformation, the artists purpously borrowed the plastic means of western pop-art of 1960s and applied its stylistics on a new content.
Pavlo Kovach, Vadym Kharabaruk, Andriy Stehura, Robert Saller, Petro Penzel and Marsel Onisko have become the first members of this art group.
A stencil imprint on a canvas became the main symbol of the pop-trans aesthetics. The plastics of painting combinations bring near the creative techniques of Kharabaruk, Kovach and Saller, this method is not so characteristic for Stehura, Onisko and Penzel.
The group took up the painting again and thus marked the end of the first decade of the 21 century. One of the key expositions of that time was the exposition in "Karas" gallery in Kyiv under the title "Happy L'end" (2007).
Ivan Nebesnik junior
