10 pieces of art living in our workshop
Serhii Makhno blog
16.05.07
WHO GREETS GUESTS? WHAT DO THE WALLS HIDE? DO THE PAINTINGS CARRY AN ELECTRIC CURRENT? WE PREPARED LOTS OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR YOU.
Decorating sounds in a blog for the first time. Other articles briefly touched on it, but 3-4 crumpled sentences about the decor are like an aperitif with no supper after. You feel hungry.
We begin with a tour of our workshop to introduce you to the residents – paintings and sculptures.
10 WORKS OF ART. DIFFERENT MESSAGES, BELIEFS, AND STYLES. EACH ONE WITH A SPACE INSIDE.
Guests are greeted by “Rain”. A bronze and glass statue of Ukrainian artist Nazar Bilyk explains man’s relationship with nature. A man looking upward symbolizes an inner dialogue. The raindrop connects him with a whole diversity of life forms.
“Nine tulips of Diana, the goddess of the hunt” by Zoya Orlova is a sheaf of emotions in paint.
I do not know how many volts are in a fragile flower … But together they make my fingertips tingle.
We take “Tulips” feeling a lemon (formless and squeezed out). The painting like fuel returns to normal. Someone connects healing with the energy of “Tulips”. Someone says a reason on a sofa, where workers used to contemplate the painting.
It came to the workshop in the spring, after Serhii’s birthday.
Our office manager knows all philosophical questions about the philosophical reliefs (guests like to ask about these pieces)
The conceptual trio raises the issue of internal human excavation, encouraging the viewer to look and think. The idea and realization by Nazar Bilyk, hanging on the wall – ours.
The name came from the essence. «COUNTERFORM» is a synthesis of shadow forms, from which the root causes arise.
The result of your work is the best décor for a work area. It inspires more than a motivational quote! We produced white giant frames and hung realized architectural projects. Reaching up for the photos is hard, and lifting – is impossible. Only admiring.
Our meeting room is a unique place. Where else will meet one-on-one Pavlo Makov and Oleg Tistol?
Looking at Makov’s creations without the lorgnette of art terms, they are ideal for intellectual exercises before the presentation of projects. Artworks draw people into their world of cyphers and codes. One spends a solid chunk of time exploring a visual puzzle. Even if you are familiar with pictures, the eye will find an interesting detail and “be hooked”
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Palm trees create the background for meetings and interviews. They met me coming to get a job and brought good luck.
Blue-and-yellow “Complex of Usefulness” is a story about miners in four plots. Artist-storyteller is Roman Minin from Donetsk.
A round shape inherits a petri dish –a shallow cylindrical dish biologists use to culture cells. The author compares Ukrainian realities with a chemical reaction. High temperature, evaporation processes… Someone (something?) precipitates.
How to control the reaction? What are the consequences? “Complex of Usefulness” encourages one to produce own meanings.
The Autobiographical «Neofolk» by Mykola Matsenko decorates Serhii’s cabinet. The artwork demonstrates authenticity, art in the continuous flow of the creative process of our nation.
It resembles an irrational broth of emotions filled with symbolism. The main line starts from a heart, not ahead. A prerequisite for creating was a carpet from the author’s childhood.
A digitalized space embodies the painting of Stepan Ryabchenko. «Electronic Eurus» has the spirit of modern art. Colours play with the chaos.
The creation technique goes further the line of “drawing”. Due to its architectural background, the artist designs the environment in picture formats.
A raccoon lives in the office (somebody has to do the work stuff).
