"Guards" –the exhibition project with the participation of Liubov Minenko and Leontii Kostur

Struggle accompanies Ukrainians every day. Historically, each generation took small steps to gain choice, freedom and a «place under the sun» through opposition. The full-scale invasion of russia on the territory of Ukraine continued the series of genocides and wars of the last century.

The difficult times of life tests of the country's existence require rethinking past artistic experience and studying one's cultural code. Imagine Point Gallery offers to look personally at the works of masters who were Guardians of the "national" in the dark times for Ukrainian art (Soviet Union).

Liubov Minenko is a native of Kaniv, a completely independent artist who always worked alone. She has her characteristic handwriting due to the dynamic, semi-abstract form of the brush stroke. Leontii Kostur is an artist and sculptor from the city of Sumy. He always went against the system and worked in an author's style. The artist combines the plastic image of the subject and the philosophy of signs, creating its inner essence.

The exhibition’s focus is a dialogue between two artists who, at one time, were recluses due to their creativity and between two worldviews that fought against the formalism of Soviet art. Including the unconscious and the irrational, the religious and the archetypal is the primary tool for realizing one's ideas in the works.