"VIVA ARTE MIDA" is the title that Yuliya Moskalenko gave to her solo exhibition. There were several options for the exhibition’s title. Such as «Out of context», «Out of mind», however...

        The curatorial council decided to settle on the first option. "VIVA ARTE MIDA." When Yuliya sets a goal all the self-identification questions disappear right away. If you dive - then dive high! If you jump - then jump deep down!

I’ve known this deep and stubborn person for a long time. Young, beautiful, cheerful and desperate - a few girls and boys of the first admission group to the art department at the college of the Kazakh National University of Arts.

        Yuliya Moskalenko stood out among all with a hyper-heightened sense of responsibility and justice. And with the fact that she always sets the highest bar for herself. If there is a term paper, she does it on philosophical basis, if there is a graduation assignment; she does it with a powerful humanitarian and art foundation. Bulgakov’s Pontius Pilate in Yuliya’s interpretation is a visual and psychological drama.

        If she decides on something, she will stick up with itFor instance, she decided to get the best art education in the classical sense – and for that you need to enroll in Brera (Italy). What needs to be done? To accomplish that one needs to prepare a portfolio that will spark the interest of the Italian professor and master the Italian language perfectly. Just the right task for Yuliya :)

        She is just like that. In everything. In her emotions, in the depths of her feelings, in the perception of the world, in color choice, in composition choice, in a reverent attitude towards loved ones.

        The maximalism, in this case, does not depend on the age period. This is the core of her character. The iron core of a fragile and vulnerable soul. It gives her strength to cope with the chaos that is raging inside the young artist and to throw this worries-doubts-indifference, all of that into art.

        That is why Yuliya’s works stop the viewers and make them delve deep into themselves. If instead of brushes/pencils/paints an artist creates with bare nerve endings, if colors are taken from the heart, if the thought is turned into a form - then it is what the young artist Yuliya Moskalenko is aiming at is. Persistently going to her goals, raising the bar higher and higher.

        It’s like a hymn to the art “VIVA ARTE MIDA!”

 

Dr. Leyla Mahat