"Postup", №101(1710), Saturday-Sunday on May, 14-15, 2005

ADVANCEMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Many will not notice sensational of this exhibition. The "smell of woman" is collection of pictures-acts, which every persons interested is in a position to see in the gallery "Dzyga" (to May, 20), is the original image of bare women, or women-smells. Nudes on verge of psychology art and social pornography. Collection looking like the call to Lvov and his culture, as though, probably, a psycho-analyst-professional said (intervention from dilettantes-psychologists in our life is interesting and no less dangerous chip of our time of corporate psychotraining and corporate evening-parties). However accompanied social revolutions, as not bohemian it sounds, are by revolutions sexual. And it is not on advices.

Attractive eccentric intellectual persons of "Smell of woman" with the call in eyes whether in the same secret bulges of body, presumably, to cause contradictory thoughts, emotions or and senses. These portraits of soul, bodies and all, whichever, on May, 6 one's own way hypnotized to itself present on opening of the mentioned photo-exhibition of Yurij Kovalchyk. We will leave science about numbers, we will remember Name-day every Yurij and, yet more interesting, the "large perverting" was in that day born Solomon Frojd. However, to describe that took place on May, 6, 2005 in the Lvov gallery "Дзиґа", not enough will be words of audience: "farther nowhere!", clinic!", "pornography", "and I chose models more beautiful", "and I yet more clever and more impertinent" and others like that. Therefore intentionally we will not use words the "best/worst", "good/bad" ... "nice/ugly ".

Instead we dare to pass the atmosphere of exhibition through the phrase of one young wit which indulging oneself in day-dreaming said girlfriend to the attractive: "Frankly speaking, I do not even know that about these women and to think... But I wanted to make attempt though a little visit by some of them".

YURIJ KOVALCHYK: About a hypnosis women and smells

— Mister Author, introduced, please.
— My name is Yurij Kovalchyk. I was born and now live in Lvov. I take up artistic photography a long ago, and as far as artistic - it is difficult to tie to chronology. In 1998 designed the relationships with Union of photoartists of Ukraine, from what both sides to this day happy. I was in the rule of Union, artistic advice, but presently I wish to govern by myself and give myself advice. In 19... did not have the personal exhibition in Vienna, in Louvre. In 19... - 20... I was not proposed at Cuale-Lumpur, Tulumba, Lusaka or other cities. From 1999 year did not relate with FІАР and other amateur organizations, and also did not successfully get the high amateur ranks АFIАР and ЕFІАР. My works are not in private collections of queen of Great Britain, chancellor of Germany, son of former shah of Iran and other prominent persons from exotic things and not quite countries. I love pictures, women and... beer.

— I thank you. "Smell of woman"... I will not gather additionally in any way, from which one tree, but what smell!" - wrote Mazu Basjo. From what tree, vividly speaking, Your pictures which pass women on a smell?
— All pictures are executed on the photographic paper made by hand. By me the developed and improved recipe of photoemulsion. Emulsion on the special technology needs to be inflicted on an artistic paper. Old technique revived in a digital epoch. It is impossible to repeat imprints.

— Looks like that you provoke by the works of not simply spectator, but also colleagues on a lens. You is not habitant of Galichina?
—  There is business not in that. Galichina, as imagine, are such sweet womens, which lie somewhere in camomiles. Lie - in the best time are semibare. Or, say, old peasants in national line-ups. Thus all of them such very polite and worthy. How in my opinion, they not quite are such. Because people are different. And Galichina is also different. you hint at my past exhibition and scandal with one portrait of pair, where a woman near a man sat topless. Anymore, at this woman is large breast. Certainly, Lvov spectator and Lvov journalist it shocked. Then many were indignant, they say, and as such itself can allow... I understand that we have a right on the opinion and advertising is advertising.

— Seems, the bad advertising today does not exist already. Robert Mapplethorp afforded in the pictures considerably anymore, to explain: a masculine body is no rough "copy" of God. You elect for the pictures of women. On a voluntary basis?
— It is clear. Albums of classics modern and not very much, in my collection in plenty. Robert Mapplethorp did unbelievable portraits, and in his works a great deal can learn.
In relation to women, how many men, so much looks on that, which a woman is. Every man decides the relationships with women and attitude toward women. Here always artists were especially interesting, and this for anybody no secret.
I at one time had a conflict with the known photographer by a mister by Ram, he told me: "you show negatives. And external and internal, and it is not quite good". At first, I do not consider that on my pictures is synonymous negative. The more so, some pathologies, as somebody thinks. Secondly, a photographer is to be objective to the best of abilities. That why to worsen and why to decorate? I am not fanaticism of salon pictures. Afterwards mister Baran said me: "you know, I understood that you had wanted to say by the pictures". He complemented, that I very thinly felt women, somewhere at the level of smells. From there and the name of this exhibition.

— At once you disrobe in itself a chemist. And yet you, probably, psychologist... on life. Why do not you perceive salons nudes? Explain, if Your caress.
— Are the Salon postals for me mean nothing special. Except for that, the photographers of talent of late Newton never took part in salon actions, how for example, Sudek. How do you think, did they do the matter to no purpose? At Helmut Newton other approach and to the salon art, and to the art on the whole. Such approach is far more interesting for me. I in the works aimed to be maximally frank, however to fall not in a sweetness, not in pornography. In fact if there are eyes, hands, there is a clitoris. I mark besides, that I can not understand until now, why journalists which are to understand, what art, on my works is not able to answer adequately. Sincerely.

— And that do you personally inlay the "smell of woman in a concept"?
— It is smell of woman is a thing associative. It is the smell of her arms, neck, shoulders... And these all smells are different. Without regard to that everybody has the unique smell.

— It is One Your work is deeply the symbolic "smell" of womanish hand which holds a foot. An idea is known, and to take off a reason just like this...
— It is an eternal theme. If you can see more intent, scars were seen on a leg photomodel hand from cuts. It is the beautiful foot of girl-suicide.Did you some time pay attention to that how did old masters draw the feet of Christ? Look over more detailed characters on Armenian street... (Smiles. - Author).
From other side, began to smell is it is the degree of acceptance of man by a man. The relations between a man and woman to a great extent are determined by a smell. From a smell the very deep internal tearing away happens quite often. The man of thin organization of soul and body feels such moments. If you adopt a man, you adopt her such as she is, instead of you think that in this man not so.

— It the sphere of psychology already. Who did you take it from?
— Crista Maiks. Austria. The Altauze School. It is not there engaged in that easy "scientific prostitution" by which amuse oneself, for example, Americans. Psychology is this in earnest. Classic example is history of Merilin Monroe and her psychoanalist Grinson. He interfered in life, that played a fatal role, on one of versions, not only in life but also even in the Monroe death.

— It is picture, after the old Indian beliefs, is imprint of soul of man. Consequently, a photographer also interferes in life of man, there is no value, as far as obtrusively… Interferes.
— Are Indian was right. In relation to interference, this is explanation of my pictures, their artistic documentary. Yes, I am an aesthete. Not such refined, as Igor Sadovyj, however much the real antiaesthetics also not too interests me. I am inclined to depict at the works, de bene esse speaking, aesthetics of true, which she was not. Here that draws me in the art of picture.

— In relation to "drawing", once this concept meant also, that "magnetism" and "hypnosis". And then Mesmer showed out the theory of "animal magnetism". Began to smell, from this look, is biochemistry of feromons, heartfelt energy and something such, that in general unreal to explain. What women "on a smell" among Your models?
— Are intellectual Persons. With a strong mind. A mind, as not strange, is weak. Body, soul, a mind is linked between itself in a woman. Woman clever - day me beautiful woman. Rudely speaking, there are beautiful women, in which souls small. To me such women uninteresting to take pictures. I will say another: intellect is this not simply mind, and considerably anymore. In unwise women and persons not such interesting, the desire even to look at such beautiful women fails to appear. It is simple to look.

— And on ugly women the desire to look does not arise up at you?
— It is aesthetics is a thin sphere. Aesthetics of ugly is a question debatable and philosophical. Scopes are not present here, there is a concrete situation and concrete perception. At least I analyse the thoughts, because of these two terms. Does a psyche go out outside through a body, do you understand? In the end, there is light and shade. By the way, name of the known magazine which "dies" gradually. That to see the elephant, it is needed to see shade. And yet. That a man could do something well or badly, she must have the choice. Free choice.

— Is it good and bad - as though God and devil? Something such.
—  It is something like this eternal theme. Their existence actually and lies in the plane of choice of man, that she wants. There must be the free choice. How one my good acquaintance spoke, "if God wanted very much, that at him believed, could appear above some church and fly a little in sky". Art - also choice.

Inna Korneljuk spoke