Tag: Завершено

Stepan Ryabchenko (1987) is a Ukrainian artist who works with various mediums. With the help of bright installations, sculptures, and paintings, the artist creates his universe, inhabited by surreal creatures, fantastic plants, and animals - a reflection of an alternative reality where everything functions according to his rules. Ryabchenko's works are part of many private collections, including the Abramovych Foundation, Artsvit Gallery, Grynyov Art Collection, Korban Art Foundation, Luciano Benetton Collection, Sky Art Foundation, Stedley Art Foundation, Triumph Gallery, Voronov Art Foundation, Lars Malmberg Collection, Luciano Benetton Collection, Firtash Foundation, Arts Trend Company, Zenko Foundation. In 2021, the British publication Electric Artefacts included him in the list of the best digital artists. 

In his creative pursuits, Stepan Ryabchenko studies new computer technologies and their limitless possibilities. "Electronic Marshmallow" is a fragment of the "Electronic Winds" project. As a base of the project, the artist takes ancient Greek myths, translates them into the language of digital technologies, and seeks relations between the real and the virtual. Stepan Ryabchenko creates his mythology of the virtual universe as the only place where you can be truly free.

Tiberiy Silvashi (1947) is a Ukrainian painter who works in the direction of abstract art using his creative method. In the 1970s, the artist began his research into the very essence of the substance of painting and, at the same time, formed the core concept of "chronorealism" for his aesthetics. In the late 1980s – he founded the informal association of abstractionists "Painting Reserve". In the 2000s, he moved to spatial objects – painting and installation projects, exploring the question of the existence of painting outside the boundaries of the picture. The main object of Silvashi's research today is monochrome painting. The artist's works are kept in public and private collections in Munich, Vienna, New Jersey, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Uzhgorod, Kyiv and other cities in Europe and the USA. 

For Silvashi, painting is a ritual; when applied layer by layer, paint creates a physical substance of fixed time, and his paintings are objects of color. In this painting, a story takes place between the different layers of paint, a dialogue between the color and the painter. The dialogue is embodied in the reflections of light, the shadows that appear due to the texture of dried oil, and the slightest changes in colored matter. Contemplation of this dialogue pulls the viewer out of real-time.

Fedir Tetyanich (1942 – 2007) is a Ukrainian painter, conceptualist, and performer. He invented the imaginary country "Fripulia", which grew from the ideas of a cybernetic Paradise, the possibility of life in open space conditions. Country "Fripulia" became the basis of the artist's life and work. This phenomenon grew into "biotechnospheres" - installations and parts of the artist's performances, spherical constructions, where everything is necessary for human survival during a disaster. The artist's works are kept in national and private museums of Ukraine and the USA, as well as in auction houses. His mosaic panels decorate the facades of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, the "Flowering Gardens" shopping center, 1976.

Fedir Tetyanich is one of the first to discuss the possibility of a future apocalypse. His "Madonna and Child" is executed in the iconographic type "The Virgin of Warning". The heavy monolithic forms of Maria and her son stare into the viewer and interact with him, provoking emotions. The child's raised hand covering the Mother's face warns of danger. The work was painted before the Chornobyl disaster and symbolizes the state of society, which was terrified by the future. The Mother of God trying to cover her son with her hands symbolizes all the innocent. On the other hand, Christ calmly observes and forces us to recover, to look at the consequences of thoughtlessness and arrogance. 

Jacques Hnizdovsky (1915 – 1985) is a world-famous Ukrainian graphic artist. He worked in easel painting, sculpture and ceramics, but he gained the greatest fame as a graphic artist. He worked in wood engraving, linocut and etching techniques and created about 375 prints. His works got recognition in the art centres of Great Britain, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Japan, countries of Africa and the Middle East. The artist's works are stored in the Library of Congress, the Boston Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the University of Delaware, the University of Washington, the Butler Institute, the Woodward Foundation, the collection of Nelson Rockefeller in the USA, in museums in Japan, as well as in numerous private collections around the world. Two of his paintings – "Winter Landscape" and "Sunflower" – decorated the office of US President John Kennedy in the White House.

"Blue Peacock" reflects the forced migration to the USA. After the move, Yakov Hnizdovskyi felt very confused; he could not adapt for a long time. He sought salvation in work; every day, he went outdoors to the zoo and the botanical garden not far from his New York apartment. Plants and animals evoked compassion in the artist. In fact, he identifies them with himself - a lonely emigrant lost in the frantic urbanized rhythm of another country. A characteristic feature of Yakov Hnizdovsky's engravings is the combination of detailed realism with stylization. The depicted object has all the characteristic recognizable features, and at the same time, being abstracted from the specific environment, acquires decorative features and becomes a symbol. The work "Blue Peacock" is presented in the Abe Tahir "Jacques Hnizdovsky. Woodcuts and Etchings" catalogue, published in the USA. Wood engraving and etching» of 1987.