A night of flavors, 2019

Anatoly Kost  

This picture is a transformation of music on canvas, so it is accompanied by:

Visiomix - Salvatore Adamo "Tombe la neige".

"Snow that will never melt."

This work of fine art is inspired by the author's Japanese culture, as Kost was an invited artist at a major Japanese exhibition. Each painting of the Triptych contains the time of day, in this one we see night. The very name "Night of flavors" already tells the viewer about the intention of the picture. The night is the time when all the senses are sharpened with the onset of darkness. Listening to Salvatore Adamo's "Tombe la neige" and looking at the painting, we feel the taste of cold frost and the smell of Sakura, which is about to bloom after the winter frosts. The gray tones in the picture are like a taste on the tongue, a taste of rawness.

Concept

The painting "A night of flavors" by the outstanding Ukrainian artist Anatoliy Kost (Kostiuk). The picture was painted in 2004 in the artist's Volyn workshop and was presented at many exhibitions. First of all, this picture belongs to the Triptych "Aftertaste of the Aroma of Sakura", which was presented at the exhibition in the National Art Museum of Ukraine.

The artist adheres to the concept of the process of transmuting the energy of abstract art into the energy of music or choreography and vice versa, emphasising their mutual polyphonic nature. Masterpieces of world musical classics and choreography are a significant factor in the inspiration of his work, which became the basis for defining a personal philosophical direction in abstraction, namely contemp-abstraction (a plastic representation of his inner state). Anatoliy Kost used the slogan ArtHouse abstraction (derived from ArtHouse cinema) as a category of artistic form of communication with the viewer, through the formalisation of the concept of Viѕiozong (a composition of several works), as an illustrated accompaniment to a musical or choreographic action.