From 26 June to 7 August 2014, the Museum of Odesa Modern Art in Odesa presents the exhibition “Vladimir Kabachenko. Neo-Baroque. Experience”.

Vladimir Kabachenko. A well-known Odesa artist. His powerful works have been an indispensable part of various exhibitions for over 20 years.

Having gathered in the exhibition halls of the MoOMA the works created by V. Kabachenko in a relatively short period of time – 1988-95, we offer a different perspective on the history of the widely known contemporary art movement – Ukrainian Transavant-Garde Neo-Baroque.

In all articles and reviews, V. Kabachenko’s work of the period under study is quite rightly attributed to this movement. All (almost) art historical requirements, similar to markers that define the author’s place in the coordinate system, have been fulfilled. However, V. Kabachenko’s works are distinguished from the works of many Ukrainian, including Odesa, authors, who are considered to be representatives of transavant-garde neo-baroque, by the absence of irony and playfulness. Everything here is serious – both the images and the attitude to them. And this difference, so clearly visible in the exhibition, where the main large-format works of the author are collected at the same time, determined the creation of his special deeply symbolic fair World.

The experience of creativity, gained by the author, is offered to be studied at the exhibition.