"apARTment" gallery
All shades… Black
23 January 2020 - 23 March 2020

What does it mean – color? An objective fact of nature or just the human emotionality? Is the symbolism of colors real? And if so, where should we look for roots of this phenomenon – inside the human being or the nature? Recently psychoanalysts and art historians have tried to connect the subjective symbolism of colors with their traditional meaning in order to solve this problem.

Rich color saturation of canvas Is the factor that attracts visitors to museums and art galleries. Each color and its shades create a melody, rhythm and tempo as the note does in music. In the art works color becomes a universal tool for the creation of the integral image. Color is form, light, composition and meaning.

2020 is a year of color in our gallery “apARTment”. Exhibitions series is dedicated to six colors and their shades. It focuses attention on the properties of colors and demonstrates the variety of the collection of the Khmelnytskyi regional Art Museum.

Painting, graphic and sculptural works of famous Ukrainian artists and canvas of an unknown artist in the exposition “All shades… Black” are combined into a powerful burst of energy. Art is the mirror of the soul that embodies feelings and emotions that knows no geographical and time boundaries so the dialog between artists and epochs is obvious. Exhibited artworks demonstrates that color is able to translate abstract ideas, everyday and sacred meanings as well as feelings.

Beautiful or ugly, cheerful or gloomy, heavy or light… It’s up to you how to perceive one or another color.