Matthew Baigell, Professor Emeritus, Art History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

(published on 6 May 2016)

Yury Kharchenko

Through whatever lens a viewer observes a work of art, be it political, philosophical, historical, purely stylistic, or iconographical, or perhaps in search of connections to works by other artists, it begins for me by interacting with the work directly in front of me and by desiring to understand what might have been on the artist’s mind during the process of creation.

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Barbara J. Scheuermann, Curator at Kunstmuseum Bonn

The Spiritual on Canvas

(published in 2011)

“Being Between Two Worlds” is the title of Yury Kharchenko’s series of small-format oil paintings on canvas from the years 2006/7, which may quite rightly be considered Yury Kharchenko’s first important group of works. Since then much has changed in his work; in the paintings of recent years he has clearly continued down the artistic path upon which he embarked with this series: the palette has become darker, the formats have increased in size several times over, and his painting style has become more confident.

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