ArtKhpi Gallery launches a new series of lectures by Oleg Koval: "KhPI Artists". First lecture: Vadim Koltun - master of visual metaphor.
KhPI graduate Vadim Koltun (May 17, 1966), a Ukrainian and now German artist, a student of the renowned painter academician Victor Gontariv, boldly and swiftly broke into Kharkiv and - more broadly - in the Ukrainian contemporary art space as an artist-philosopher, emblematist, emblematist, emblematist the topics of the East, the biblical themes and cultural concepts of our European world. The complex metaphorical world of the master will be discussed in the lecture.
Lecturer's background:
Oleg Koval is an art critic, cultural scientist, semiotician, linguist, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Section of Art Studies), International Association of Artists (AIS). The main area of ​​his scientific interests is the semiotics of culture, language and art. He also deals with the problems of linguistics of discourse and linguoesthetics. Works on the study of verbal-visual synthesis in the theory and practice of the visual arts of the 20-21th centuries. Author of the book Creating a Sign. Essays on linguoesthetics and semiotics of art (together with V.V. Feshchenko, Moscow, publishing house "Languages ​​of Slavic culture", 2014), "Pencil drawing school" (together with VP Senin, Kharkiv - Moscow, publishing house "Family Club" leisure, 2007, 2010, 2011) and over 250 articles on general linguistics, theory and history of art and culture. He is an employee of the ART KhPI Gallery and a teacher of art history at the Kharkov School of Art. He was the editor-in-chief of the Anima Rerum Applied Arts and Antiques magazine.