Tiberiy Silvashi

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.