Approaching Zero 1 Painting

Oleg Kostyuchenko is Belarus-born Artist and Curator currently based in Brooklyn, NY.  Author's art works and research are connected with physical endurance and focuses on the body as material continuation of spiritual and on a person with a special physical and mental development. The topic of Oleg Kostyuchenko’s works is a human body and its visible sufferings. The purpose of his works is to show the fragility of human life. The artist combines pain and suffering with aesthetic attraction. His vision of the body gives to a viewer a feeling of love and relief, but also shows terror and violence.  The pictures play the role of stimulus or a mirror, the images of which motivate the viewer to the dialogue, social interaction or the ability to be open along with. By portraying fleshliness, the author makes a person to deal with an individual or social reality.  Through the provocative form, Oleg Kostyuchenko talks about faith and vertical hierarchy as well as an existential crisis and its causes. The artist introduces his version of modern ethical guidelines by an intervention into the taboo themes and images. Last curatorial projects by OK are dedicated  to the global theme of a wound on the world an  to the Armenian genocide. The Author in his projects works with global issues that must be revealed, with the truth that finally emerges.