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, color is the matter through which he translates his attempts to understand the world. There is no need to look for meaning, story, or structure in his work. Here, color is the primary thing: the interaction of colors and shades, the dialogue between them, the texture of layering, and the unevenness of the plane. By passively observing these actions on the plane, the viewer is fulfilled, goes beyond the usual sense of Time, and throws himself into Silvashi's "chronorealism", where the connection between the flow of Time and the flow of Color is formed.