Projects
Here are the main current projects, the topics of which I have been researching for many years.
APIARY
With the project of Apiary I have started to work 15 years ago. AfterI have more learned about life and activity of the Ukrainian researcherof Prokopovich which has carried out principles of rational beekeeping.As a matter of fact has made world scale revolution in this areas. Forexample all modern beehives are constructed behind a principle of systemof Prokopovich when bees arent destroyed for for the sake of honey.The Idea of humanism and preservation of a beer family as live organism has interested me and has inspired on creation of the art project Apiary ina modern creative context analyzing between society of people and a beefamily an apiary..The project Apiary for me bears the features of self identification. Conception of Apiary is topically ecological it creation of adequate nature its necessities and rhythms of the module of todays city environment. Architecture of such city not so much even architecture of the future but multi-layered biological substance identical nature and decides properly as spatial modulation of natural environments. A new language thus remains the language of the first naive contact of man with the world it primary characters.
INVASION REDUX
Mykola Zhuravel conceived his latest project Invasion Redux as a visceral response to the tragic events ensued in Eastern Ukraine that is the Russian-sponsored invasion of territory of a neighboring sovereign nation. Here the artists towering sensibility and material actualization are not deemed documentary in nature but rather metaphorically and phantasmagorically betwixt elements of surrealistic grotesqueness. Zhuravel directs his attention on the diabolic visage of the enemy who delights in sadomasochistic spectacle as evident for example in images of anti-hero aggressors celebrating bacchanalian weddings or clownishly posing before a camera with trophies of childrens toys from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over the Donetsk region. To fully comprehend and externalize the imminent and dire circumstances Mykola Zhuravel adroitly turns to the multi-media concerns readily available in his master toolboxpainting video installation and photography. Proving to be his most demanding and articulated effort to date Invasion Redux marks a defining mid-career moment in the prolific output of an important contemporary Ukrainian artist.