Gallery M&Art agents Artist Interview

Questions:

1. Why you start work has an artist?

I've chosen this path for myself since childhood, and I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. For example, from the age of 10 I studied at art school and drew every day. I went to the Academy of Arts in Ukraine. So my whole life has been about art.

After delving into the study of psychology, I realized that in this way you can perfectly talk about complex subjects in a language that everyone understands.

2. What do you select your subject matter?

Combining academic figurative painting with a new, daring and quick sense of incompleteness is my way of skeptically searching for sincerity.

I turn to the original innocence and sincerity in search for the beginning of everyone's life in this world: through the union of the spiritual and the material, wisdom, experienced academism and the playful adventurism of modernity, the female personal image, and the absolute nature. But whatever I find, I will cast aside to continue the search for a truer sense of home within each of us.

3.How do you create one of your works/What's unique or unusual about your technique/ process?

The fragmentary technique allows the human image to fluctuate, to be in a state of transition, and yet remain whole at the same time.

Combining the dense materiality of the stroke and the semi-abstract airy touch of pure and deep color, I incorporate into the image seemingly incompatible things: empiricism and pragmatism, lightness and depth, clarity and spatial hesitation.

4. Did you begin with this style or was it an evolution?

With the realization of my personality, with the realization of my potential, my art has evolved more and more. But all the time I remain true to my ideas, values and style. It does not change but transforms me, opening me up and making me more honest about the world. Through the unfolding of my style, I get to know myself more and more each time.

An emphasis on overarching sensuality is the prime foundation of my artistic style. This can be seen in all the artistic activities I undertake from painting and performance in virtual reality to my teaching programs for emerging artists.

5. How would you describe your work?

As a direct result of being in active battlefields in 2014 and 2022 in Ukraine, the need to travel and travel alone, the themes touched on in my writings aim for a depth of personal transformation that seeks to be a perpetual beacon of light for anyone who looks at it.

It is a study - deliberately detached from the foundation in search of the inseparable, the one. In pursuit of the eternal, the honest, the living, and the moving, in its most careful manifestation.

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