Trans‑Image in Viktor Sidorenko’ Creative Work

Abstract

The aim of the article is to investigate the transformation of the image as a morphological unit of modern visual art on the example of the creative work of a Ukrainian artist and researcher of modern visual art Viktor Sidorenko. The research methodology is based on the methods developed in the works of J. Landsdown and S. Schofield, S. Yerokhin and others. The paper presents an attempt to study a new type of image – post-post-classical image, which has an ontologically transgressive character. The research has important implications for understanding the modern morphological changes in the visual sphere, the instrumental system of these changes that ensures the presence of its two mutually antithetical trends: transgressive and synergetic. The author analyzes the publications in which the link between the morphology of the visual sphere and the latest developments in the creation of visual space are explored. The choice of Victor Sidorenko’s creative work as a research material is not accidental. It is in the work of this artist that the genesis of the modern post-post-classical image and the transformation of its space as polymorphic can be clearly traced. The attraction to photographicity on the one hand, and author coding, on the other, becomes an ontological feature of V. Sidorenko’s authorial construction of pictorial space and in further creative searches. A certain culmination of this stage in the artist’s visual work is the already famous full‑scale visual project “The Mill of Time” (2003). It is in this project that V. Sidorenko creates a trans‑image as a space of a new type, in which photography, installation, painting, living objects and video projection create a post-classical type of image. The paper considers Victor Sidorenko’s creative work as a vivid example of the genesis of the image, whose ontological feature is its transgressive character. This is an image of the post-post-classical type, whose pictorial space can consist of classical, non‑classical and post-classical images. At the present stage, there have been changes in the strategies of representation of the trans‑image as such. The main strategy of its representation is a polymorphic visual project, which synergistically combines different types of images, bringing their semantic content beyond a stable visual form.