Land art came to prominence in the late 1960s and 1970s when artists found themselves in want of real space and initiated a radical change of artistic vehicles. They started to apply a form of art which uses water, rocks, sand, leaves, ice or snow, sun rays, lightning. A first ploughed furrow, a path trod out across a lawn may be considered the germ of this art movement... Thirty odd years ago the land art combined artists’ urge towards aesthetic landscape development with a need to overstep the limits of conventional cultural institutions i.e. galleries and exhibition halls.
The number of land art admirers in Ukraine is increasing. However there is lack of information about the philosophy and artists who created this movement. During the lecture, the audience will have a chance to watch footages made at land art workshops conducted in different countries.
The lecture attendees will be provided with materials describing the “land” on which the artists will be working this year. They will also be informed of the terms as for participating in the festival land art-program. The most successive authors of the project will be able to implement them during “Sheshory” this year.
The lecture format provides for free communication where one can get answers to all his/her questions. Representatives of art-community, journalists and all interested in contemporary art are invited.
Biography reference
Yaroslav Kozhyara (born in 1967). He defines himself as an “aesthetic terrorist” who never compromises within any art section in which he works. He is a successful artist, scene-designer and land artist. In Poland he is famous as the author of a logo, CD-discs covers and concerts’ scenography of a cult band VooVoo, and also as an art-designer of a large-scale event “The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity” (annual charity event with the participation of world-known musicians from different European countries, who collect money for Health-Protection and Children Lives' Saving). Kozhyara created the biggest land art-site in Europe – a drawing on soil or, to be more exact, by soil, located Yanovets region starting from 2005 that changes depending on the seasons.
Petro Bevza (born in 1963). A well-known artist, land artist, author of a number of articles about land art and its Ukrainian dimension. Considers the nature and means for its transformation not only as instruments for embodying an idea but also as vehicles of spiritual concept of existence. He has introduced a term “actions within environment”, which eventually became the artist’s visiting card. He participated in the International land art workshops “Open Circle” (Kuressaare, Estonia, 2001) and 'Cretaceous' (Mogrytsya, Ukraine 2002). In 2004 and 2006 he created art pieces within “Sheshory” land art festival.
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