
Oleksandr Korol
Oleksandr Korol was born in 1974, lives and works in Dnipropetrovsk.
In 1995 he graduated from Yevgeny Vuchetich State Art School, and in 2004 - from Ukrainian Academy of Printing in Lviv.
"With the exception of single cases when Oleksandr Korol lets himself dive into the pure abstraction, his works are populated by various creatures: from easily recognizable, but childishly, primitively stylized, to touching, unprotected, extraterrestrial (in meditative graphical or collage sheets of paper) and finally - fantasy, unreal, malformed and even horrifying. The painter may create a cozy circle marked with a theme of childhood and unexpectedly, like a child that tries to overstep the limits of permitted, - runs into the uncontrolled adult world with its fears and dangers. But there are more game and interest in this process: things transmitted from life into the plane surface stop scaring you."
Olena Hodenko-Nakonechna, art critic
Selected exhibitions
2015
The Way, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
2014
In Our Paradise, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk, curated by Halyna Sklyarenko, Valeriy Saharuk
Minotaur Quest, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Pulse Of Africa, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
2013
Noir, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
2012
Bird's Milk, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Neofolk project, Ya Gallery art center's project within GOGOLFEST 2012, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Deus Ex Machina, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
2011
Artists' Assosiation, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Kill Ptotography, Kvartira art centre, Dnipropetrovsk, curated by Oleksandr Lyapin
A Dream, Lenin Gallery, Zaporizhia
Caution, Children!, Literary Pridneprovie Museum, Dnipropetrovsk, curated by Iryna Besedina
2006
КUKOgrafiya, CITY Art Gallery, Dnipropetrovsk
AVTOportret, CITY Art Gallery, Dnipropetrovsk
AVTOportret, Lenin Gallery, Zaporizhia