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“B-2” Project. Painting is a quintessence of Vasyl Bazhay’s nonfigurative method, logical continuation of the search that figurative and plastic language, which he looks for so unremittingly, experimenting with a form, space and colour. Stylistically the exhibition could be divided into three parts which in any case expose us the creative handwriting of the artist.

From the one side we can see traditional for the artist “canvases-structures” in which the form and the space deconstructs in a free picturesque background, specific art “quantum” field’s theory, where a stroke and invoice of oil paint radiate the waves of the Painting’s clean idea. For the first time Bazhay represented this “extract” of non-figurativeness on the exhibition devoted opening of International Festival of modern classic music “Contrasts” in 1995 year. At that time deconstruction of the image and its interpretation as some quasi-dimensional method of creation organically interlaced with John Cage`s works. The structure in music and painting is its differentiation to the pieces from the least phrase to the longest sentence. The form is the content, and the method is a management of the integrity note after note and stroke after stroke. The material of the music is a sound and a quiet, the material of painting is an invoice and a colour. Composition of “canvases-structures” is the integration of everything mentioned above.

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From the other side we can see also traditional for the artist crescendo of the form and the plane as the non-figurative method to create allusions to imaginary spatialness and pseudo-figurativeness. For Bazhay the problem of the form and picturesque material always was extraordinarily important. The artist found original universal principle of orderliness of the form’s motion and process of the non-narrative material’s development (geometrical forms, colour contrasts, protoperspective planes etc.). They are rhythmic structures which create proportional compositions.

At the end of the last year Bazhay found a new interpretation of the figurative material. Experiments with non-figurative space and plane, and also “quantum” basis of invoice of artist’s painting organized in the original rhythmic structure, as principle of per se form and crystallized in a new method.

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A number has a symbolic, composite and technical value for Vasyl Bazhay. In artist’s creation numerical rows became an organizing element, which identically befits both for picturesque planes and invoices and for performances. The saturation of Bazhay`s painting foresees the own height of sounding, timbre and invoice’s slowness, and also silence of contra-form. In this case the artist approaches the “rhythm -structure”. Composite improvisation foresees ornamental development of the visual row and gradual exposure of the form due to gradual motion from the first to the last stroke.

It is felt he finally found that figurative and plastic language which he was searching so persistently. But did he find? Oh.. probably not yet … because the search is more important for him than achieving some certain level…

Roman Hankevych

GROUP EXHIBITION @ BOTTEGA GALLERY

Participants: Tyberiy Silvashi, Volodymyr Budnikov, Vlada Ralko, Vasyl Bazhai, Andriy Bludov, Volodymyra Hankevych, Olena Turyanska, Glib Vysheslavsky.

Environment is the sphere where human beings exist, which influences their maturing beginning from the childhood, which affects them whether consciously or unconsciously during the whole lifetime, and due to which people identify themselves in the specific cultural surroundings. As well as this is a space, which can be influenced by the human being primarily through his or her creativity.

Environment is the area where the human being can constantly be found – beginning from the surrounding social and cultural conditions or informational world, up to the building where he or she lives, and objects that are around.

Environment is the open space for the information exchange, exchange of ideas and experience for those who accept the complex of conditions dictated by the contemporary art.

Eight different artists – eight personal environments, where each of them possesses his own art philosophy, are united by the specific environment of the Ukrainian contemporary art in the space of Bottega Gallery.

More details…

Untitled. Oil on canvas. 60x60, 2009

The intensive crescendo of the violin part was sounding in the studio, and the mind was reacting actively on the sound formations and passages, organizing its code with the key word “Paganini”. That is how I imagined to myself what has induced Vasyl Bazhay to start his new art cycle. The astonishment was endless. Twinkling spaces, expressive dab and abstract-figurative composition of the last works were changed by majestic areas with well-defined outlines of colour-saturated forms.

New works of the artist are opening absolutely another, unknown potential of form creativity where the rich colour plays not the last role, as a tool of origin of the painting form. As never before, the painting areas sound in two ways: when you come closer – you see the classical, “your own” Bazhay, when you step aside – the new Bazhay appears – the master of form metaphysics, illusion creator. “Paganini” made his deal – he encoded the figurative language of the author into the new format. Contrast and counterpoint of the areas give rise to the depth and extensionality of the platitude that used to be flat.

Untitled. Oil on canvas. 175x147, 2009.

This is the new stage – generally another approach of Bazhay to the picturesque structure, but there are no reasons to say it appeared spontaneously. In the beginning of the 90-s the artist started with two personal exhibitions. Some of the paintings presented there possessed the similar energy. But probably the time for the further development of this cycle hasn’t yet come. Up to today. As well as James Cameron has matured the ideas of his “Avatar” for nearly seven years, Vasyl Bazhay internally worked with the form metaphysics. The examples of these experiments partially appeared in different projects and at last materialized in the project “Paganini”.

Roman Hankevych, art critic

More informations as well as small gallery of new paintings can be seen at “Bottega Gallery” web-site.

Vasyl Bazhaj. Project “Rex”
/painting, installation/

Vasyl’ Bazhaj is considered to be /without exaggeration/ the most expressive artist in painting plastics. He is primarily a painter and “clear” abstractionist, fully immersed in the elements of color and shape. The artist for a relatively short time has expressed himself as a leader & classic in the field of installations and “ready-made” objects, but the last few years has focused himself exclusively on painting. Read more in Ukrainian.

April 2 - 22, 2009. “HUDGRAF” Art Gallery.
Kyiv, Tarasivska St. 3.

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Vasyl Bazhaj