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Artist Statement:
Tadeush Zhakhovskyy, pastel
artist.
Artist statement.
Part 1. My method.
When I am working on a
painting, I observe that the
space of a painting starts to
deflect my initial idea and
prompts me to the new and
unexpected ways. The painting,
in fact, starts managing the
process of creating itself and
complicating my original idea.
For example, I have started
another painting and pictured
something. Now I try to
grope for further shapes and
colors, and then I intend to
picture, let’s say, a flower.
And it happens as this: I’ve
had an idea about how to
picture the flower and I begin
doing that according to my
plan. Then I suddenly see that
the painting rejects my idea
of a flower, but “offers its
own idea” instead, a kind of
flower idea too, but nothing
similar to mine.
Here it’s clear to me that if
I "stand my ground" about how
to draw a flower, it will be
more safe and sure for me –
it’ll be less risky to spoil
the painting (using pastel you
can’t overlay one color with
another.) If, however, I draw
it "prompted by the painting"
– the result will ...
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LIST OF EXHIBITIONS
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
2011 – Participant of International Exhibition "SLAVIC ART DAYS IN BERLIN" as a part of "GERMAN ART WEEK ‘ Winter - 2010", Berlin, Germany.
2010 – First Prize winner in "UKRAINIAN ART WEEK ’Fall - 2010", first place in "Avantgarde & Experimental painting professional contest", with "Smooth Jazz" and “Chicago, 4 p.m.” paintings. 2010 - International Exhibition & Competition "UKRAINIAN ART WEEK ’Fall - 2010", Museum of Contemporary Art of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009 - Prize winner in "UKRAINIAN ART WEEK ’2009", Second place by international jury selection in "Avantgarde painting professional contest", with "Violinist" painting. 2009 - International Exhibition & Competition "UKRAINIAN ART WEEK ’2009", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2007 - Magnificent Mile Art Festival, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2006 - Evanston Lakeshore Arts Festival, Evanston, Illinois, USA
2005 - Belmont Arts and Music Fest, Roscoe Village, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2004 - Ukrainian Village Fest, Chicago, Illinois, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 - “WUNJO-ART” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2003 - "TadikArt event at the Ranch", Saint Jo, Texas, USA
2003 - "TadikArt event at Kuman's", Boston, Massachusetts, USA
ALL-UKRAINIAN EXHIBITIONS:
1983 - Participant of Republican Exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine.
OTHER ART RELATED ACTIVITIES:
1987 - Design & implementation of Students Cafe interior at Welding faculty building of Kyiv Politechnical Institute, Ukraine.
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