Vasyl Bazhai

Vasyl Bazhai (1950) is a Ukrainian abstract artist. Works with easel painting, performance, installation, and ready-made objects. The artist's works are deeply introspective - he tries to get to know himself. Most of the works are nameless, giving absolute space for imagination and improvisation. There are no frameworks here, only freedom of thought and thinking. A characteristic feature of Vasyl Bazhai's work is the transformation of paintings into spatial objects. In this way, the author gives them a completely new visual meaning and content. Vasyl Bazhai's works were exhibited at personal and group exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, Poland, the USA, Egypt, Germany, and Switzerland. His works are kept in galleries and private collections in Ukraine, Belgium, and the USA. 

The painting "Antithesis" is part of the "DE-TERMINO" project, which was started in 1984. Positioning creation as "a performance with paints and a canvas", the artist calls for meditative contemplation. Vasyl Bazhai plays with the viewer's imagination, prompting him to think. That is why the artist is not tied to a particular form; he experiments with textures and spots, creating space for interpretations and multivariate interpretation.