THE STUDY OF THE VERNACULAR LANDSCAPE OF UZHGOROD BY THE LAND ART METHOD IN WARTIME CONDITIONS

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the specifics of the development and setting of new tasks for Ukrainian land art in wartime conditions, and to highlight the factors that contributed to the formation of the unique artistic language of Ukrainian land art. Research methods. A thorough approach to the study of the topic combined such methods as: analytical method was used to study the state of research of the chosen topic; system method – for processing literary sources; comparative – to determine the common and distinctive features of the creative search of representatives of land art; historical and chronological – to study the periods of formation of Ukrainian land art; the method of art analysis – for characterizing the works of artists. The results. The study deals with the analysis of the national landscape in the system of Ukrainian contemporary art. Despite the forty-year artistic practice of land art in Ukraine, there is still a lack of thorough research devoted to the main features of Ukrainian environmental art in art history. Individual articles in periodicals do not allow us to characterize the peculiarities of Ukrainian land art, which distinguish it from foreign environmental art. The author analysed the activity of the artistic residence «Sorry No Rooms Available», which was organized in the conditions of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The analysis of art works performed in the natural environment of Uzhhorod as part of the curatorial project «Lendart Exercises» was carried out with the aim of exploring the vernacular landscape as an environmental art method. The peculiarities of the development of Ukrainian land art after February 24, 2022 have been traced. Conclusions. For the first time, the study singled out the factors influencing the mental context of the landscape on the authors of projects, where a special place is occupied by local identity during global transformations and shifts, which gives grounds to single out the vernacular component of Ukrainian land art in the system of world art as an exceptional phenomenon of creative world perception.