“Keyword: beauty”

The name of the exhibition is symbolic, because in the world, in particular, the world of art, it is very important to find a place in the sun, your own niche. Paintings created by Tetiana Krasovska are an attempt to find such a place.

“The creative work of this artist is very friendly and attentive to the audience,” says art historian Svitlana HAVRYLENKOVA. “You smile at the world around you and sincerely believe that it will smile to you in return. Sunlight world of the Kharkiv artist is friendly even in bad weather. Her portrait images are naive and pure with colorful and unusual temperament, where a warm stroke of the brush boldly goes side by side with a cool one and clear outline stresses and specifies the form.”

Krasovska tells about herself that she is an artist who praises the most important thing in this world – beauty. “My ideal of creative aspirations is perfected simplicity. My source of inspiration is love of life,” says the artist. “The way of presenting the reality is sincerity. The main condition for work – spiritual balance. And the keyword is beauty.”

This description is clear to the audience since ten solo exhibitions and paintings that are stored in many museums and private collections are a convincing proof of this. Krasovska likes to quote the Spanish maestro Pablo Picasso: “Everyone wants to understand painting. But why not try to understand the birds singing? Why do people love night, flowers, everything around them… and don’t even try to understand those things?” The same is true about painting – you don’t need to look for some too deep meanings. If it brings aesthetic pleasure, if it is beauty for you – the mission has been accomplished. Boldness with which the artist creates her paintings, her amazing pliability give more liveliness and vitality to her paintings. The artist’s painting style has something from cheap popular print, some features bring it close to oriental culture. But Tetiana can’t give an exact name to her creative work. And there is no need to. The main thing is that Krasovska is looking for her place in the sun by working hard and crystallizing something that would show her individuality and will be recognizable… Speaking about the path and destination of an artist in the modern world, she quoted the words of another famous European: “An artist must use all his energy, all his sincerity, and the greatest modesty to avoid old stamps in his work, which slip under your arm so easily and can destroy the newly born little flower that never appears the way others expect it to.” These were the words of Henri Matisse.

The exhibition “A Place in the Sun” is open at the Museum of Contemporary Art on 17, Hlybochytska Street until June 30.