Presenting the graphic works of the “Welcome to Ukraine – not smiling country” project, Serhiy Kolyada informs that he is ready for “Euro 2012”, when the flow (God bless it!) of the tourists thirsty to the new impressions will go to Ukraine. And they will open their mind and see the truth that Ukraine declares that it is the real European country instead of that left the country of Scythians. (“Scythian” from the anciant Greek means “gloomy”, “unfriendly”). “The gloomy and unfriendly” visual prose by Kolyada is inalienable part of our life as the same as Kolyada himself- the real underground anarchy artist who is sincere and irreconcilable to the lie and who make is art only with the ball-point pen. 

50 Great Things About Kyiv 
KYIV POST, Oct 20, 2004

“Serhiy Kolyada got in hot water with Kyiv’s art establishment with his ballpoint-on-construction paper productions, portraying Kyiv as a melancholy zone of shadows. Check out his Web site (www.kolyada.com) to see his nude or semi-nude women depicted against shadowy backgrounds of corporate slogans. It’s art as social commentary: gutsy reflections on money, power and gender issues in Ukraine.”

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