Rymma Vinogradova
Rymma Vinogradova is a Ukrainian contemporary artist working in the style of figurative art, based in Basel, Switzerland.
Since her youth, Rymma has been discovering Ukrainian culture in its various manifestations. This gave her a sense of taste and aesthetics as she feels and sees it now. In her work she explores how our cultural heritage is being transformed by current trends of human development, how it changes into new forms, and reveals itself in new ways of contemporary conditions.
Her main question is: Is there a place for ethnicity in our “virtual” reality? In Rymma’s reality there is. She delves even deeper into the study of ancestral traditions, folk art, peculiarities of history and passes it to others. Because these things are very fragile. „If we don’t recreate it in our memory now, who will pass it on to future generations?“ ─ is the question that prompts Rymma to tell incessantly about it through her artwork.
Now the focus of her artwork practice is on the theme of vulnerability of cultural heritage. "We don't need war to lose our own history and cultural heritage. It is enough to simply forget it".
Rymma attaches great importance to the appearance of her paintings and describes her technique as multi-layered. She works mainly with acrylics mixed with various pastels, charcoal and ink.
