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Oleksii Ivaniuk is a Ukrainian artist living and working in Kyiv.

BIOGRAPHY
He was born on October 1, 1988 in the town of Piryatin, Poltava region. Graduated from the Yurii Kondratiuk Poltava National Technical University at the Department of Fine and Decorative Arts. Since 2010, he has become an active participant in all-Ukrainian exhibitions, in particular, has acquired the status of a finalist of the international competition for young artists "New Ukrainian Landscape" and the winner of the All-Ukrainian exhibition "Triennial of Painting - 2013". Since 2015 he has been a member of the NUAU.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

 * Solo Exhibition, NUAU House, Kyiv, 2014.
 * Solo Exhibition, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, 2014.
 * Personal project, "X ART-KYIV Contemporary X", Kyiv, 2015.
 * Personal project "Sky.Kray", Museum of the History of Kiev, Kyiv, 2015.
 * Project within Kyiv Art Week, National Museum of Kyiv Art Gallery, Kyiv, 2016.
 * Personal project "Silence", National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery", Kyiv, 2016.
 * The Lad Family Project, Kyiv History Museum, 2018.
 * Personal project "REALISM", Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, 2019.
 * Personal project «FOREST / FOREVER», Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, 2019.

ART OVERVIEW:
He started his artistic career as rather a classical painter due to academic fine arts education. The first artworks were traditional Ukranian landscapes, nature sketches etc. This tendency was relevant for a around decade until recent years. The gradual style transformation and search for the expression means brought the author to minimalistic pictures with unusual colour decisions and geometric shapes. The ongoing landscape series offers a unique perspective at the immutable woods and lake views, revealing the essence of our emotional memory and not trying to imitate the world as it is.

Oleksii on his artworks:
 * "In my works I try to convey a sense of what I have seen. Transforming, passing it through my own vision. Landscape or still life for me is like a living substance, that brings it's emotions to me. The landscape itself inspires me. During my creating process I try to feel the mood of the landscape, and whatever it is, it always excites and captivates me.”

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 * The experimental searches for "something truly mine" started at the university, however now the use of this method is dictated by self-awareness. What you can see today is a breakaway from academicism, the reproduction of a stable symbol, colour and compositional relationships, an attempt to combine memories and premonitions.

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Silence
The ten paintings from the series of works "Silence" — a visualization of the mood, emotional experiences and feelings of the artist. The author subtly reflects on changes in his own state of mind, feels the need for expression and signification in a new colour. Oleksii’'s works are full of inner enlightenment, peace of mind and concentration. Minor, nuanced paintings enchant with their silence, create a new space, where time has stopped and everything has sunk in a barely audible musical symphony of nature. "I close my eyes, but I write with my eyes wide open. It may be difficult to grasp and confusing, but that's how I feel the landscape. I change it to show what it really is," the author notes.

The Lake
What comes to your mind, when you are trying to recall the visual image of the forest? An exact picture of each tree or rather blurry spots? The definite form is vague, only the experience of the landscape remains. Photographic observation of nature is lost, but the essence of human perception is captured in the paintings. The author resorts to artistic means of the abstract expressionism, which help to reveal the artist's dedication to feelings and reflexes, to show much more than academic painting. Here you can find the aesthetics of lightness and spontaneity, meditativeness, and even self-irony in some places — the pictures of the series are multidimensional and eager to be explored.

REALIZM
The landscape is the classic genre of painting. The artist represents it through the prism of the new artistic and expositional studies. The basis of the project is the observation of different states of the landscape and its emotional impact on the viewer's consciousness. Olexii Ivaniuk's "Realizm" is a delicate balance between imagination and reality, between figurative and abstraction, between emotion and contemplation. After all, the landscape, according to the author, is first and foremost a unique tonal combination of sensual and emotional waves. That is why in these works the artist seems to simplify the artistic image of the landscape. He neglects the details, cleanses everything, and transforms the landscape into an abstract, almost suprematic plane of geometric shapes and rich colour spots. However such simplification is misleading. Behind it a distinctive authorial style can be found, a desire to create a system of one's own outlook, to convey sensuality and purity of harmony. The dramatic language of the large-scale paintings, the intense coloristic tension of the panel, as if woven from emotions and feelings, denies any decorativism and turns into a powerful symphony of the confluence of the creative force of man and nature. Oleksii Ivaniuk: “The core idea of ​​my work is to create a large-scale modern abstract landscape without any details. The one, where the intensity and colour saturation will increase the impact on the viewer and expand the boundaries of perception of the classic landscape. "

NEW LANDSCAPE
The works of this series are very different in colour and capacity. Some keep a solid tone and are marked with only a few elements, that form the gravity of the picture, while others contain many repeating patterns and various geometric shapes. Such experiments are an attempt of the artist to convey, that the artistic resource of nature as a subject of study and inspiration is immense, because each of the archetypal locations (steppe, lake, etc.) is alive and changing. They have a stable character within human life, even lives of the generations, but over time one landscape replaces another, deserts become seas, and meadows become forests. Such succession is organic, and it has been going on for thousands of years. Moreover, the same terrain strikes differently day and night, in different seasons and eras. The author's reconstruction of the landscape as of a conceptual space of natural phenomena and artifacts enables the viewer to re-realize the purpose of the landscape painting.

LAKE
The viewer's eye may lose focus on these canvases, as numerous reflections of the sky in the water, as well as scattered counterpoints (fire, roof, moon), seem to mislead. According to the author, "there is no need to force anyone to believe in the plot of the painting. In fact, it is a matter of luck — will you be lucky enough to discern the landscape and the lake in the picture?" The lake was before humans and will exist after them, it is indifferent to haste and plans, it is free in its statics and infinite in moods — rainy, sunny, twilighty and so on.