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'My style is an attempt to make painting resonate like music but not reflect any particular place and time,' points out the artist, 'So that each tiny detail and the entire artwork resonate, alter and interchange. I do not know maybe it's arguable or idealized, but I feel like my paintings are of another dimension'.
"Revelation"
2010 year, oil on canvas, 61 x 81 cm.
"An artist who paints the light itself" - so was mentioned Victor Vasiukevich in the press. He started his career with more figurative images, with a bias in surrealism, phantasmagoria, collage. The new style he works in is hard to name just an abstraction - more accurately it would be characterised as esoteric painting. The art of
Victor Vasiukevich is not based on any geometric constructions, and, generally, does not accept any forms of completion. His abstractions are unlimited stretches of imagination, embodied by a hand of a professional. The artist himself calls his style "materialized music" and considers it as a revelation given to him from above.
"Matrix", oil on canvas, 70 x 80 sm, 2009 year
The style of Victor Vasiukevich can hardly be described as abstract art. It would be more precise to call it 'energy', 'cosmic' or 'esoteric' painting. The artist doesn't accept any perfection of forms. His canvases are an infinite stretch of imagination. Victor Vasiukevich refers to his own artistic manner as 'materialized music'. In his recent abstract works Victor tries to reflect the harmony of outer world he managed to perceive, in contrast to near-realistic practices which acknowledge earthly struggle of opposites. Нis style is close to the ideas of Zen philosophy and New Age movement and refers to works by well-known Indian master Sri Chinmoy. At the same time he upholds the tradition of abstract painting started by Vasily Kandinsky. Also the artist has a lot in common with Jackson Pollock and other representatives of abstract expressionism.
“Landscape”, 2009, oil on canvas
In order to maintain a sense of color the artist creates his numerous natural landscapes. He also works a lot in the genre of portrait and of still life.
"Madonna and Child", oil on wood, 2009
Victor Vasukevich represents his experimental art-project in abstract graphic, which is, as it were, the sort of exercise on the development of abstract thinking in the visual art.
"Composition #1", mixed media on paper, 30 x 42 cm, 1990s
There were periods of ups and downs in Victor's life, and was walking on the very bottom. But he is grateful to Lord for the trials that have fallen to his lot, and analyzing the past, he comes to the conclusion that if not these losses, he would never come to the revelations of today. In his horoscope, compiled by an astrologer friend, it was clear underlined that a hard core of spirituality will allow him to withstand any severe test which would sent the life on his way.
"Composition #18", mixed media on paper, 30 x 42 cm, 1990s
Victor Vasukevich was born May 10, 1958 near Novogrudok
1982-1988 - studied at the Faculty of paintings and drawings of the People's University of Arts (Moscow)
Guided art studio for children, worked as a teacher of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.
EXIBITIONS:
1991 - Solo exhibition (House of Arts, Minsk)
1996 - solo exhibition "Avant-Garde (NEC BELEXPO, Minsk)
1999 - Group exhibition of avant-garde artists (Palace of Arts, Minsk)
2008 - Solo exhibition (Library of them. Tolstoy, Minsk)
2008 - Solo exhibition (Gastseўnya W. Galubka, Minsk)
2009 - Exhibition "Color music" (Gallery «Vilnius», Minsk)
2009 - Group Exhibition of the International Festival of Contemporary Art "dah-IX» (Palace of Arts, Minsk)
His works are in the collections of the National Art Museum of Belarus, the Belarusian Union of Artists, the Belarusian Museum in New York as well as in private collections in Germany, Poland, Russia, Armenia, USA, Canada, Australia and other countries.
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