Odessans learned that butterflies dream

On June 5, Odessa hosted the opening of the exhibition of a well-known Ukrainian artist - Taras Kovach. The Butterfly Dream exhibition was opened at the Chaika exhibition center and attracted the attention of many connoisseurs of beauty. The originality of the exposition is that each picture is like an instant of fading beauty. Even a cursory glance at the images allows you to feel how unbearably delightful the world is for a fragile creature, whose life is limited to several days.

Contrary to, or even thanks to, his youth, the artist has a subtle sense of reality and the ability to look at the world with a “not washed out" look. The butterfly’s dreams, and maybe the whole story of her life, seems to break up into separate fragments, which emphasizes the inevitability of her death and deprives her of hope to prolong the contemplation of the surrounding nature. Scattered images that seem so bright at first break up. Time mercilessly licks them, rinses them with hard water. The sense of doom is enhanced by the antagonism of light and shadow. Nevertheless, I would like to think that the butterfly has colored dreams, and not a black-and-white parody of the rainbow spectrum.

Taras Kovach has been a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2008. In just four years of active work, he managed to hold dozens of bright exhibitions, both on the territory of his country and abroad. In Kiev, he took part in such group exhibitions as Design, Swift Dreams, Ukrainian Young Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art, which became bright events in the cultural space of Ukraine. Even Miami residents have already managed to appreciate the work of Kovach! It seems that now it is the turn of Odessa.

Eve Istr