Video: Geography lesson from Yuri Solomko
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Against the background of the boring rules of the Russian language or endless mathematical formulas, geography for many was the most interesting and favorite subject at school. Ukrainian Yuri Solomko, apparently, loved her so much that he even decided to connect his adult life with her. No, he did not become a geographer or teacher. He became an artist who paints on maps.
Yuri Solomko claims that the geographical map is "one of the strongest symbols that civilization has created." The artist adds his own to the information already contained in this document. And then it turns out that the political map of the world was painted in different colors by a graffiti master, and Antarctica is just part of the noble lady's hairstyle. Sometimes Yuri has to cut a map into pieces, and then make a kind of collage out of them, or even glue several cards together - and only then draw on them. It all depends on the idea of the future picture.
“The only thing that is not in the map is immaterial, non-visual concepts, - says Yuri Solomko. - There is no map of emotions, experiences. There is a picture for this. I am inclined to think that any picture is a map of feelings."
Many of Yuri Solomko's works are not just beautiful paintings. The artist lays in them a deeper meaning: "I specifically refer to the techniques of pop art in order to show the imperfection and even venality of some of the heroine countries of the world." For example, the artist draws naked women, whose intimate places are located in the very “corrupt”, in his opinion, countries.
Yuri Solomko was born in 1962 in the Crimea. He currently lives and works in Kiev. His works are in the collections of the Russian State Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Alexander Glazer Museum of Russian Art (New York, USA), Henny-Onstand Art Center, Hovikoden, (Oslo, Norway), as well as many private collections throughout the world.
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