Maryan Oleksiak

Maryan Oleksiak (1959) is a Ukrainian artist who works in painting, graphics, photography, and assemblage. His work is dominated by the fragility of earthly existence and reflections on life after the apocalypse – hence the use of burnt objects and experiments with their texture. Among the materials he uses in his work are wires, cords, photographs, honeycombs, wood, hardboard, oil, chalk, metal, glass, glue, paper, and others. Maryan Oleksiak participates in Ukrainian and international exhibitions, mainly in Lviv, Drohobych, Wroclaw, Krakow, and Lublin. Participant of the "Srebrnu czworokąt" biennial in Przemyśl, Poland. The artist's works are kept in the museums of Lviv, Drohobych, and Ivano-Frankivsk.

Maryan Oleksiak thinks in metaphors; his work is full of ideas of deconstruction. In the "Mona Lisa" cycle, he continues to develop the theme of the impermanence of time, the loss of value orientations, decomposes the image into signs-symbols, and destroys the usual space. The picture is similar to an hourglass because the artist seeks to show how the world ages and that art can have a time dimension. The world is perishable and fragile, but there are things in it that are important to preserve.