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You are Odessa Michael and it means a striking person. Surprising and gladdening the spectators with his stories about Odessa and unboring exhibitions, Michael Kolomey suddenly (just on the face of it) has appeared as a patient Father Carlo, who made with dust pieces of wood, rags and plastic some resemblance of himself his friends and his nearest and dearest.
His dolls became volume. These small actors life in their own life, they are envoys between two words (alive and inanimate), between two measuring.
The dolls world by Michael Kolomey is a certain space of joke which was made by a man from Odessa, where habitual things become nonsenses. This world is so bright, talented, ingenuous and crafty. The art of a painter is an embodiment of reality life and grotesque are similar.
Our life is a funny story: short and drew that is an opinion of people from Odessa. The spectators can observe a small dolls performance about the inhabitants of Odessa, who are eating, drinking, working, watching TV, to sum up they are doing all usual things with all attributes of hell and paradise.
Speaking about the town where people of different nationalities live, and where different languages, cooking, customs and dispositions are got mixed up, the painter often emphasizes sensuality and eroticism of his heroes. This is the world of happy man who sees the Universe through rose coloured spectacles.
In Odessa even a madman is not a fool, and a homeless person is sanguinary. Every figure is a symbol, and a plot of a joke one can see from the suggesting situation. Grotesque and daily life, naturalism and romanticism, lyrics and cynicism, pathos and irony form unique humour of Odessa.
The artist shows the heart of Odessa, its spirited people who like to eat and to drink tasty. All characters are connected as fragments of one never-ending funny story. In Kolomey's work there is the most important: atmosphere, surroundings, rythm and even unique, jargon of Odessa. The artist knows and imparts secret how to be happy.
Kolomey uses his puppet theatre, his odessey as means of communication and approaching, in the world, which is divided by borders, religions and races.
Dolls are in fashion now: royalties puppets are collected, put up for auction and displayed. For instance Bulgarian humorous twin town of Odessa Gabrovo. The creator of a doll has not competence to deal with it now, he cant prohibit it to look, to think, to understand.
Puppet Odessa by Michael Kolomey is always developing and it requires local authority an immediate decision of finding an apartment a puppet museum in a capital of humour.
All who rate highly individuality in art and like humour and jokes will be interested in creative work of a man with a great talent from Odessa.
Art historian Irina Timohova