Damir Krivenko's painting "Butterfly of the XXI century"

"Thanks to the development of technology and the abundance of communication tools in the modern world, live communication is being replaced by virtual communication. Such a situation provokes a general decline in mental development and generates the depersonalization of entire generations."

I am creating a project whose main objective is to make it easy to perceive and establish a balance between the virtual world and reality. At the heart of this collection is the eternal irreconcilable confrontation between realistic painting and the avant-garde. I am convinced that such a concept allows us to turn the visual arts to a new level and breathe new standards and opportunities into it.

I believe that art is an important element of the life not only of artists, but of all people. However, the following trend has emerged in the modern world: since the first quarter of the twentieth century, artists have stated that the classical school of realism has outlived itself; this provoked the emergence of a huge number of different trends and trends, which at first caused euphoria among art lovers, but later, the departure from fine art frightened ordinary connoisseurs and art became understandable only to a narrow a circle of professionals. It has acquired the status of an elite, but at the same time, it has lost a mass audience.

I think many artists are now concerned about the current situation and are looking for a solution to this problem. By joining them, I declare that one of the main tasks of our time is to popularize art and involve as many people as possible in the creative process, even without special art education. After all, today the main problem of modern society is that it is desensitized. That is why, first of all, I share my feelings, ideas and revelations with the audience. I preach feelings and talk about how multifaceted they are and their diversity is simply limitless. They are quite easy to convey through color symbols, conceptual painting, and this can be understood by almost every viewer. Therefore, each of my works is a parable, it has its own story and it tells it. Very often these are stories about how our emotional world is filled with feelings that we don't notice, and also that we always have the right to choose and we are responsible for it, because it entails changes in our lives.

My goal is to talk about big and complex things through small and simple things, and create interesting, understandable art. At the same time, I try to reflect the problems of the modern world in my works, and I often attach annotations to my paintings to make the dialogue between the viewer and the artist even more accessible.

Damir Krivenko