ART-GALLERIES AND VISUAL ART OF THE NEWEST TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

The article is the review of Ukrainian art-galleries activities in the area of modern visual art of the newesttechnologies during the last twenty years of Independence.

The contemporary Ukrainian visual art is in the difficult state nowadays. An economic crisis resulted the declineof purchasing power of consumers of artistic works. The lack of budgetary facilities of the Ministry of Culture of Ukrainefor the last four years does not conduct the public purchasing of the Museum fund. Money lasts the realization of twothreeall-ukrainian exhibitions barely. The number of participants of exhibitions narrows from year to year. The art of the newest technologies that arose up in an epoch of postmodernism appeared in the worst state. These directions arerealized exceptionally outside state artistic museums in the non-state galleries due to sponsor support and foreignunderbacks.

An art-gallery is a multifunction organism, and at the same time it is an experimental ground, where approbationof experiments of the newest technologies takes place. Art-galleries actively react on the requirements of time, try to beflexible in a capture principles of co-operation of different forms of modern art with the newest technologies in creation ofnew visual and virtual forms of visual art.

A vanguard art wants active and aggressive influence on public through the real transformation of reality,through creative transformation of environment, however exactly in postmodernist times presentation of artistic practicein public space becomes integral part of artistic organism. Him it may consider a visual symbol "ready-made", that comesforward as a valuable constituent in all directions of visual art of the last century – installations, objects, environments,performances, happenings, actions and other art-practices.

Art of today – considerably more many-sided, more various and more representative, than in previous time. Artisticpractices in Ukraine have the sign features, specific of the use and transformation of quotations, and also its own historicalcontext. In relation to the last, the Ukrainian school of painting (in different regional displays), the followers of that are mostmodern artists, plays the dominant role here. Installations, performances, environments, created by first-class artists, carryin itself the imprint of traditional aesthetics at the level of genetic koda, but usually absolutely consciously.

Founded in 1993 in Lviv Artistic Association "Dzyga" unites artists, writers, public men, businessmen for the sakeof creation of various cultural projects and objects (clubs, festivals, media-projects, and others like that). From the very dayof its founding "Dzyga" positioned itself as aesthetic establishment with accenting on the newest artistic technologies. Theideological and physical center of "Dzyga" is her gallery in Lviv. In its surroundings a cult cafe-club "Doll", studio of the audiorecording and video studio, cafe "Under Clepsidra", antique shop, library of "Thursday" and at the same time editorship ofthis magazine, get along in the person of G. Izdrik. But the most important are the team and ideas.

"Dzyga" shows the special ingenuity in the genre of performance, and among the most sign personalities in thegallery, indisputably is V. Kaufman. The idea of the only in Ukraine annual festival "Days of Art Performance in Lviv"exactly in Lviv was successfully realized. The festival connected "School of Performance", meetings with artists, lectures,videoshows, implementations of performances, the authors of that are both well known masters and representatives ofyoung generation of performers from different countries.

Visual art of the newest technologies, performance, in particular, develops in modern Ukraine exceptionally innon-state institutions, and among them the Lviv gallery "Dzyga" is the leader.

In Ukraine of gallery are not only commercial institutions, but mainly organizations that carry on in a civilized mannerelucidativeactivities and participate in various social, noncommercial projects. Carrying out scientific, communicative, expert,collection, commercial, advertisement and other functions, art-galleries are, engaged in actual directions of modern art anddetermine the vector of its development. They introduce modern visual art to spectators, bringing up their artistic taste, studyand keep the most meaningful creative achievements of modern art for future generations.

During the years of Independence of Ukraine gallery activities got considerable development, and accordingly,influence on modern creative process in the country.