Anatol Stepanenko

Anatol Stepanenko (1948) is a Ukrainian postmodern artist. He worked in performance, film directing, and conceptual photography and founded the cyberpunk style in Ukrainian painting. In his art, the critical transformations of the consciousness of Ukrainians from the mid-1970s to today are reproduced. Since 1987, the works of Anatoly Stepanenko have been exhibited at exhibitions in Toronto and the annual International Exhibition of Miniatures in Poland. In 2001, the artist took part in the Venice Biennale. Personal exhibitions of the artist were held in Kyiv, Basel, Trier, Zurich, Tbilisi, and Krakow, and he also implemented other projects in New York, Canada, and Hungary.

"Portrait" was created using palimpsest methods, superimposing images on each other. Each layer is a different period. Various emotions, moods, the state of society, and even the weather are superimposed on each other, visualizing the artist's inner state and reflecting his psychological outlook rather than a realistic one.