The year 1997 was marked by the significant “Ideal Landscape” project, which was first exhibited at the Municipal Gallery and later at the Kyiv International Art Festival in the capital’s Ukrainian House.

This collaborative project between sculptor Oleksandr Ridny and photographer Volodymyr Bysov featured four art objects that aimed to merge plastic, visual, literary, and intellectual forms of creativity. The project’s goal was to illustrate the landscape as a natural complex where all components – relief, water, soil – are in complex interaction and interdependence, forming a unified system.

The artists presented their compositions in bronze and marble, photographs, handmade books titled “Matrix of the Day,” the “Ideal Landscape” calendar, and a set of postcards called “Courage.” The artists sought to demonstrate the manifestation and realization of the secret, often unconscious, desire of each of us for a certain ideal niche.

In Kyiv, at the largest national visual arts forum, involving over 50 cities from 12 regions of Ukraine, our Municipal Gallery won the “Gallery of the Year” nomination with the “Ideal Landscape” project! The project’s exhibition was recognized as the best in terms of the artistic level of the presented works, professionalism, and purity of the exhibition, and the main prize of the festival, “Golden Section-97,” was brought to Kharkiv from the capital.

https://mgallery.kharkov.ua/1997-proiekt-idealnyi-landshaft/