Sydorenko Victor

Victor Sydorenko is an artist, art researcher, curator, teacher, an author of objects and photo compositions and also scientific and publicistic texts.

He was born in Taldykorgan (Kazakhstan) in 1953. He is the member and the President of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.

In 2001 Sydorenko founded and headed the Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts. In 1979 he graduated from the Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute with honours (class of Prof. B. Kosarev, winner of the USSR State Prize). In 1981 Victor Sydorenko started post-graduate studies at the USSR Academy of Arts creative workshops, supervised by the USSR Academy of Arts academician, the People’s Artist of the USSR, winner of the USSR state prizes Prof. S. Grigoriev.

At the same time Victor worked as an art director of the film “The Anatomy of the miracle” (director V. Ivanov). Sydorenko’s pathway from realism to neo avant-gardism represents the freedom of creativity of the last generation that grew and was working in a totalitarian regime.

In the project “Levitation” (2008–2009), the artist gives an advantage to the optical illusive game which is created by dense and viscous red color and by the space with large-format picturesque planes and installation. Man’s figures stretched out and soaring in air, are forcing you to lose reference points and coordinates, and even yourself.