Dmytro Kurovskiy was born in 1971, in Chernihiv, Ukraine. He attended the Kharkiv State University of Arts, graduating in 1994 as a flutist, teacher and composer. He lives and works in Ukraine (Chernihiv, Kyiv and Odessa).
Kurovskiy is a multimedia artist, photographer, poet, dj and leader of https://soundcloud.com/foahoka , a musical/multimedia project founded in 1990. In 2003, Foa Hoka became an open project which invited the participation of other open-minded artists. It has included electroacoustic live performances with video and dj sets based on Foa Hoka studio materials and exhibitions of the Mboti Uchacha School, an independent art community which Kurovskiy co-founded in 2002.

His interest in painting was initially inspired by music from the late 70s and early 80s, while listening to radio programs prohibited in the Soviet Union. His initial medium was markers, which his mother had bought for him while in Poland. Kurovskiy, like an astronomer, investigated and carefully studied the signals received from faraway space - the west. While listening to this forbidden music, the consciousness of the young scientist formulated well-defined pictures from a range of collected information. The whole world existed simultaneously with him, but on parallel plane. The result was a series of portraits of well-known musicians and rock-bands. At the same time he began to express his thoughts on paper.

“I remember the kitchen table, in the evenings, under the radio waves of foreign music. Wild, joyful characters began to emerge on album sheets (and later on whatman paper). Initially, it was soloists and then, bands with big names: The Who, Adriano Celentano, Rockets, ABBA, Johnny Rotten, Stars on 45, The Beatles, Kiss... and some super-mysterious groups: Africa, Copny Repels, Torold, Blacks, Modvel... On the radio, not all can be heard, so the drawings were created in real time.”

Dmytro Kurovskiy’s paintings are interesting in their originality. They may be compared to such great art phenomena in the world history of fine arts as naive art, art-brut or art of outsiders; which in due time influenced Picasso, Miro and other artists of the 20th century. His small, but expressive, graphic works touch one’s heart deeply. It is that powerful and instinctive impulse of pure creation which induces the artist to create. As a result, we have the compositions of Kurovskiy, the musician, and the compositions of Kurovskiy, the painter.

Kurovskiy works with psychedelic urban art and what he calls “ironic reflections of fast lo-fi”. He enjoys 

In 2007 the project “Love Never Dies” presented a compilation of Kurovskiy’s paintings over a range of years; some of them created more than 20 years ago. This exhibition can be called a retrospective review of Dmytro Kurovskiy. In it was seen his rock-idols of the 80s, the mood of Soviet freedom and expectations of the 90s, and the display of urban art present today. His art is filled with love; revealed in the artist’s attitude toward his characters, the people whom his pictures are devoted to and in the process of the creation of the art, itself. This love is also revealed in Kurovskiy’s musical side - whether studio tracks, DJ sets or his position as flutist in a theatrical orchestra. Love never dies. Love prevails through Kurovskiy’s music and through his art.

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