Strontium-90
2121 Kiew
Ukraine
+380979080446
www.artshelter.nm.ru
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Vita / Lebenslauf:
S T R O N T I U M - 90
Artistic Association
In 1990 the artistic association "Strontium-90" was founded in Kiev, Ukraine by a group of independent artists concerned with social and ecological issues. Three 'tralfrealist' artists - Valeriy Goleiko, Tatyana Chebrova, and Alexey Breus - form the core of the association and are its leaders.
Strontium-90's first exhibit opened in Kiev on 26 April 1991- the fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Since then, "Strontium-90" has organized other exhibits and events such as "Feedback," "MEGHASANDESHAM" (Message Through the Clouds), "Universe: Open Contact," "Sky. Ocean. Land," "Pilgrims of the Universe," and many others.
The group has also conducted a number of actions within the framework of the project "Chernobyl. Between the Past and the Future" devoted to the 20th anniversary of nuclear disaster.
In accordance with their manifest and by means of their creative spirit, member artists of "Strontium-90" challenge us to understand and appreciate the world around us not only through our senses and minds, but to employ our hearts above all. Their plea is especially relevant in the wake of the Chernobyl Disaster, which compels us to alter our conscience by confronting society's penchant for self-destruction.
The creative work of the "Strontium-90" artists conveys our bond with the vast essence of our Ego, and mirrors images and events from various planes of existence.
www.artshelter.nm.ru
Valeriy (Ven) GOLEIKO is an independent artist who was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1956 and who studied painting at a number of Kiev-based art studios. Since 1982 he has been developing the concept of "C.D. Tralfrealism" in painting, which Valeriy stresses captures the absolute reality of fantasy through the colorful magic of the universe.
Valeriy is a founding member of the international movement of artists who express their creativity through the traditions of Tralfrealism. He is also a manager of and participant in the work of the artistic association "Strontium-90" -a group of independent artists concerned with social and ecological issues." Since the end of the 1990s, Valeriy has been working together with artist Tatyana Chebrova to co-author the art duet "VenTa."
In his work Valeriy typically depicts things that are on the other side of reality, and he invites us to partake in an exciting journey beyond our imaginations. Valeriy inhabits a creative world of modeled space-time in which new artifacts of existence arise.
Valeriy Goleiko's work is found on exhibit in museums and art centers as well as in corporate and private collection within Ukraine and abroad.
www.goleiko.com
www.artportal.org.ua/ven
tralfven@mail.ru
Tatyana (Ta) CHEBROVA is an independent artist born in Sevastopol, Ukraine, a graduate of Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev, and has studied painting at various art studios in Sevastopol and Kiev.
Tatyana is a co-founder of the international movement of artists who express their creativity through the traditions of Tralfrealism, a member of the artistic association "Strontium-90" - a group of independent artists concerned with social and ecological issues, and a member of the art duet "VenTa." Her motto is: "Tralfrealism is love made visible."
Specialists in the field of color psychology have commented on Tatyana's paintings, noting the positive energy they exude and how this helps to stimulate the observer's immune system. The harmony on the canvas is also the harmony in the soul of the one who views a painting, while health may be understood as living in harmony with oneself: one's thoughts, feelings… with every cell of one's body.
Tatyana Chebrova participates in many art exhibits in Ukraine and abroad. Her works are on display at the National Chernobyl Museum in Kiev, the National Museum of Ukrainian History, the "Ukrainian House" National Exhibition Center, the National Association of Pharmacists, the National Union of Journalists, the Panstwowe Muzeum na Majdanku in Lublin, Poland, and comprises many corporate and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
www.chebrova.net
http://tralfrealism.chat.ru
chebrova@gmail.com
Alexey (Les) BREUS is an independent artist who was born in 1959 in the Kuban region, Russia. In 1974 Alexey graduated from Kanevska School of Fine Arts in Chelbass, Russia. In 1982 he completed his studies at the Bauman National University of Technology in Moscow, and in 1990 graduated from the Mass Media Department at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev, Ukraine. Alexey is a member of the artistic association "Strontium-90" - a group of independent artists concerned with social and ecological issues.
Alexey expresses his creativity in the fine arts by following the tradition of Tralfrealism. He emphasizes that the primary animating factor behind his painting is the idea that all mental images represent a reality worthy of being interpreted creatively while represented materially. This understanding of Tralfrealism reveals Alexey's affinity for the "translucent realism" of Danyil Andreyev in which "other," "non-sensory" worlds shine through into the more immediate world of the here-and-now.
Alexey's works are held in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, the United States, Germany, Belgium and in other countries. His first set of graphic compositions entitled "The Others" was created several years before the Chernobyl Disaster when Alexey was living in the town of Prypiat where Chernobyl NPP workers were housed. Alexey managed to remove these works from the deserted town only three months after its evacuation following the accident.
To honor his participation in the post-accident mitigation efforts within the destroyed Chernobyl unit during the first hours following the accident on 26 April 1986, Alexey Breus was decorated with a State Commendation: a medal "For Honorable Service."
www.breus.net
breus@ukr.net
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
The group of independent artists "Strontium - 90" presents their exhibit "Shelter" realized within the framework of the project "Chernobyl: between the past and the future". The project is devoted to the 20-th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster. The artists declared the project start date on December, 1, 2005, when they visited Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and honored the memory of fallen Chernobyl heroes at the victims' memorial.
The main purpose of the project is, by means of art, to attract attention of international community to necessity of solution of Chernobyl problems, including Chernobyl station and Shelter facility. The artists of the group "Strontium - 90" are convinced that Chernobyl accident is a global scale disaster, and its overcoming is still in need of common efforts of humanity.
Speaking about the Shelter the artists mean not only sarcophagus, covering the destroyed Chernobyl unit, but also responsibility of mankind for preservation of the Earth that is our common Shelter, and universal and only reliable Lee for all living things.
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Concept of the project
Chernobyl disaster induces to soul-searching, to reconsider comprehension of the universe, our values and a place of the person in the world. Just peculiarities of world view and values system determine different cultures of various epochs and regions, for example, the culture of the West and the Orient, the culture of the Ancient World or the present-day culture. Chernobyl has affected the key cultural aspects, therefore we probably undergo a turning point in the history. It is obvious that art cannot stand aside this process.
There is a good reason to speak about Chernobyl as a work of art, although the work signed with minus. Chernobyl is a phenomenon which has much in common with a work of art. Chernobyl became a sign, a type, and a multifaced image. Namely these moments are perhaps the basic indications of work of art as a cultural phenomenon.
The localization or even originality of its headstreams and, at the same time, loss of national limits, and also getting world-wide sounding make Chernobyl related with a work of art too. Origins of Chernobyl have roots restricted with definite cultural and even cult (ideological) frames inherent to Soviet community of that time. Meanwhile, Chernobyl is no longer a confined phenomenon; it became the phenomenon of global scale and significance.
There is a curved space around of Chernobyl, which is in fact "a creature of reason sleep". All kind of spaces are curved there: financial, political, legal, intellectual, mental and moral ones. Course of all sorts of processes and flow of time are changed there. Obviously, Chernobyl time is extended for ever; the creation under the name Chernobyl can live very long.
The task of the artists is to see the Sublime in this grandiose work of art, exhibited on the universal arena, and to transfer this to usual show-rooms, galleries, museums. Each artist chooses his own creative foreshortening, and from the selected position, with allowance for his own sight and means, he reproduces the artistic image. Each of such images invokes to remind that Chernobyl is a warning and admonition; it is a lesson of history which cannot be neglected and forgotten.
The artists of "Strontium - 90" art group within the framework of the project "Chernobyl. Between the past and the future" exhibit not only colorful canvas. They tell also stories about the first day of the post-Chernobyl era, i.e. April, 26, 1986. Each of them had own memoirs, impressions and experiences concerned with this day. At that time they were living in different places and even had not supposed existence of one another. But Chernobyl joined them invisibly just that day.
Then all people found themselves bounded with the disaster which has brought mankind attention to the question about their rationality and a further development of the civilization. Today, 20 years later, all of us is still staying at the cross-roads between the past and the future; between the past given rise to the world worst nuclear catastrophe, and the future which depends on today's choice of humankind. On this way from the past to the future Chernobyl is still with us.
The social and ecological association of independent artists Strontium-90
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