Mykhailo Krasnyk
KHOHM CONTINUES THE PROJECT “LET’S BE!” dedicated to artists-anniversaries of 2024. Despite the bloody war and all the extremely difficult trials that have befallen our fate, Ukraine is fighting for our Independence, for Freedom, for Identity. For the right to live freely on our Land. Our museum is also fighting, popularizing domestic art, which precisely identifies us as Ukrainians. Mykhailo’s irresistible desire to become an artist did not disappear even after six unsuccessful attempts to enter an art university. Another would have been disappointed and said goodbye to his dream, but not Krasnyk. At first, he works as a laboratory assistant in a museum, where a visual, rather than through reproductions, acquaintance with works of art simply amazes the guy. On the advice of experienced colleagues, he begins to eagerly study professional literature. The next stage is the assistant restorer, and after the appropriate training – the qualification of a restorer.
Mykhailo Krasnyk: “All my art is a few successful people, a few successful situations, and the rest depends on you, how you will cope with it, how you will live. Maybe it’s good that I didn’t enter the institute, because it didn’t take up my time… For me, the main thing is to do what I feel. I can do what I don’t want to. But there is such a thing as conscience. You can deceive someone else, but I will know that I did not do what I wanted, but the situation. Then I will sin against myself in art, which is the only thing for me that is pure beyond everything? In the only thing where I feel independent? Because I am dependent on time, on work, on circumstances, on the tram… And in art I am independent. Here you can afford everything. Here you do what you want. And how it is perceived is another matter. You can’t please everyone… At first I painted “normal” still lifes and thought that when my neighbor comes and I draw an apple and she says “oh, how alive” – that will be the pinnacle of my art, I’ll stop there, I don’t need anything else. Well, I drew, well, she came, well, she said… And I felt that this was not enough for me. No matter how beautifully I could recreate nature – I still can’t “surpass” it, I can only get closer…”.
Mykhailo Krasnyk’s work is a vivid demonstration of how fantasy, multiplied by painting culture, knowledge of art history and a virtuoso combination of various archaic symbols, signs, spots of different formats, simple geometric elements or in general a few expressive and dynamic lines and strokes, gives rise to compositions that send the viewer to gray antiquity, encourage reflection, contemplation and meditation. They immerse us in the millennial past, to the forerunners of fine art – mysterious Paleolithic cave drawings or petroglyphs. In the childhood of humanity or your own childhood – the choice is yours. After all, abstract art itself is one of the most democratic directions in terms of interpretation by the viewer. So it is not at all necessary to look for specific images and meanings – it is enough to enter into a visual dialogue with the work.
Mykhailo Krasnyk: “Grandma embroidered, as all the older people in the village embroider – towels. But I could not understand how she did it: she started sewing from a corner, sewed-sewn-sewn and sewed the entire plane. She sewed with a cross and somehow thread by thread, and then she cut it, and interesting nuances came out. Once I came home from work, I was sitting on the couch, resting, there was no TV, I looked at the wall, and there was a piece of canvas hanging there, all sewn up with some diamonds, all colored… And I felt that it was drawing me in, that I was already there. I was so carried away, how cool it was! And then I thought – stop! And what’s cool about it? There’s nothing there, no image, no bird, no tree… There’s only color. And then I realized that you can draw something that won’t be a specific image, but it will be interesting. “
FOR REFERENCE:
Mykhailo Ivanovich Krasnyk was born on November 18, 1959, in the village of Rodatychi, Lviv region. Painter, graphic artist, restorer.
One of the founders of semiotic abstraction and assemblage in Ukrainian art. In his creative work: experiments with archetypes of folk art, landscapes, metaphysical fantasies. (Wikipedia).
Combines etching and linocut techniques, introduces elements of collage; uses the technique of contrasting tones, the most subtle nuances of shades of one color. The paintings are distinguished by their abstractness, appeal to archaic symbolism and folk art (the composition has a noticeable influence of folk embroidery). (Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine).
1986 – 1993 – member of the art society “Shlyakh”; from 1994 – member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
1975 – 1978 – took private art lessons from Stepan Trush.
Since 1977 he has been working as an artist-restorer at the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.
Since 1980 – participant of all-Ukrainian and international art exhibitions; about 20 personal exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.
1993 – personal exhibition at the KHOHM.
The KHOHM collection contains 50 works of the artist.
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