The Hidden Art: Essays, Conversations, Commentary

In the last decade of the 20th century, Ukrainian artists who worked in the Soviet era had no hope of publicly and regularly demonstrating their works. Now, art objects with an ideological program, many of which are kept in museums and private collections of our country, have moved to storage facilities with no prospect of being seen in the near future. In contrast to the phenomenon of "degenerate art" in Nazi Germany, the Ukrainian practice of hiding art objects is practically unexplored. Maybe it's time to think about this phenomenon.

In her new book, art critic Diana Klochko offers, through essays, comments, and conversations with museum workers and curators, to look at the problem of "hidden art" as something that prevents Ukrainians from realizing the scale and complexity of their own visual heritage. On the pages of this publication, readers will see dozens of works that have not been exhibited at all for years, as well as those that have received expert commentary for the first time in this book. In addition, the author reflects on the problem of fixing exposures and preserving private photo archives. "Hidden Art" raises the question: how to make Ukrainian artistic heritage visible.

Diana Klochko is an art critic, lecturer, and author of numerous articles. For more than ten years, she was engaged in publishing: she created publishing houses, author's projects (in particular, albums about the works of Johann Pinzel, Vladyslav Horodetskyi, Olga Rapai, Serhiy Paradzhanov, wooden architecture of Japan and Ukraine, guidebooks and translation series), was an expert and a member of the competition jury, launched the Metaphora translation award. Diana Klochko is also a member of the International Association of Art Critics AISA and PEN Ukraine. She is the author of the book "65 Ukrainian Masterpieces. Recognized and Implicit", for which she received the Yuriy Shevelyov Prize.