Antonina Denysiuk

Antonina Denysiuk (1963, Lviv) is a Ukrainian artist, curator, and DE NOVO International Art Symposium organiser. The artist works with painting, graphics, sculpture, and installation. Her art arises from primary chaos, structured in the minimalism of creative imagery and the laconic rhythm. Since the artist uses unique means of expression and techniques, fitting her into a specific style is challenging. Antonina Denysiuk's work has been awarded international prizes and scholarships from the Krasner Pollock Foundation (USA), Culture-Contact (Austria), and Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Poland). She won the Lorenzo de' Medici Special Award at the 8th Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art. Her pieces are in collections abroad in the ALBERTINA Museum in Vienna, the Lentos Art Museum in Linz, the Center of Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, and Ukraine in the Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, the Museum of Modernism in Lviv, and the Korsaks Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art in Lutsk.

The work "And Suddenly I Saw the Sun, a Beautiful Tanned Sun" continues the "Born in the Ocean" series, launched in Berlin in 2016. Denysiuk expresses the philosophy of her worldview through the visual paradoxes of kinetic statics with the help of a unique artist's technique. The texture of alabaster, an organic mineral used by her in the piece, changes over time, dries up, grows and turns into a stone structure. At the same time, along with solidified alabaster, Denysiuk uses feathers, a material that symbolizes "life as air". Its delicate and moving texture in its structure and sensitivity breathes like a yellow-hot solar wind stream, reflecting human kinship with the Earth and the World Ocean.