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Nazar Bilyk

Nazar Bilyk

The CutHeight: 56 cmPrice on request

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    In the language of sculpture, Nazar talks about how the original idea is born, how meaning gradually finds form, manifesting itself in physical space, seeks to approach the root causes of the birth of substance. When looking at the work, the viewer completes the process of creating a work with the help of his own consciousness.
    Thus, Bilyk explores not only the plastic aspects, but also the mechanisms of human perception. Visualizing the very structure of the image, its "reverse side", the author seems to add new dimensions to the viewer, expanding the range of values ​​and enriching the associative range.

Illustration

The CutHeight: 56 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    In the language of sculpture, Nazar talks about how the original idea is born, how meaning gradually finds form, manifesting itself in physical space, seeks to approach the root causes of the birth of substance. When looking at the work, the viewer completes the process of creating a work with the help of his own consciousness.
    Thus, Bilyk explores not only the plastic aspects, but also the mechanisms of human perception. Visualizing the very structure of the image, its "reverse side", the author seems to add new dimensions to the viewer, expanding the range of values ​​and enriching the associative range.

Illustration

The CutHeight: 56 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    In the language of sculpture, Nazar talks about how the original idea is born, how meaning gradually finds form, manifesting itself in physical space, seeks to approach the root causes of the birth of substance. When looking at the work, the viewer completes the process of creating a work with the help of his own consciousness.
    Thus, Bilyk explores not only the plastic aspects, but also the mechanisms of human perception. Visualizing the very structure of the image, its "reverse side", the author seems to add new dimensions to the viewer, expanding the range of values ​​and enriching the associative range.

Nazar Bilyk

Conditional distanceHeight: 46 cmPrice on request

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    Anyone who has ever been to Landscape Alley has probably seen the 6-meter "Rain" sculpture, which is a symbol of man's connection with nature. The portrait from the series "Conditional distance" is an amorphous sculptural object that remotely resembles a human head, the face is blurred.
    For Bilyk, it is this radical defocus that becomes a necessary precondition for shifting the focus from the external to the internal. Behind the outer layer there is something completely different - a classic anthropomorphic image. In this generalized image of man, finally, there is a certain existential optimism and a chance to know the unknown.

Illustration

Conditional distanceHeight: 46 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    Anyone who has ever been to Landscape Alley has probably seen the 6-meter "Rain" sculpture, which is a symbol of man's connection with nature. The portrait from the series "Conditional distance" is an amorphous sculptural object that remotely resembles a human head, the face is blurred.
    For Bilyk, it is this radical defocus that becomes a necessary precondition for shifting the focus from the external to the internal. Behind the outer layer there is something completely different - a classic anthropomorphic image. In this generalized image of man, finally, there is a certain existential optimism and a chance to know the unknown.

Illustration

Conditional distanceHeight: 46 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    Anyone who has ever been to Landscape Alley has probably seen the 6-meter "Rain" sculpture, which is a symbol of man's connection with nature. The portrait from the series "Conditional distance" is an amorphous sculptural object that remotely resembles a human head, the face is blurred.
    For Bilyk, it is this radical defocus that becomes a necessary precondition for shifting the focus from the external to the internal. Behind the outer layer there is something completely different - a classic anthropomorphic image. In this generalized image of man, finally, there is a certain existential optimism and a chance to know the unknown.

Nazar Bilyk

Enclosed spaceHeight: 90 cmPrice on request

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    Bilyk not only creates an object, but also explores the space around it, finds a counter-form in the object, without which it does not exist on its own. Counter-forms for a person are his stereotypes, patterns and personal superstructures. They affect communication, our communication with loved ones and even with ourselves.
    In the work "Closed space" it is easy to guess the outlines of the female figure, closed in the thickness of the transparent polymer, which are refracted and distorted by bizarre bends of the material and the light. The graceful figure, remotely reminiscent of Venus de Milo, is separated from the surrounding reality by a dense transparent barrier and seems frozen in time between past and present, between community and loneliness.

Illustration

Enclosed space
Height: 90 cm
Price on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    Bilyk not only creates an object, but also explores the space around it, finds a counter-form in the object, without which it does not exist on its own. Counter-forms for a person are his stereotypes, patterns and personal superstructures. They affect communication, our communication with loved ones and even with ourselves.
    In the work "Closed space" it is easy to guess the outlines of the female figure, closed in the thickness of the transparent polymer, which are refracted and distorted by bizarre bends of the material and the light. The graceful figure, remotely reminiscent of Venus de Milo, is separated from the surrounding reality by a dense transparent barrier and seems frozen in time between past and present, between community and loneliness.

Illustration

Enclosed spaceHeight: 90 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    Bilyk not only creates an object, but also explores the space around it, finds a counter-form in the object, without which it does not exist on its own. Counter-forms for a person are his stereotypes, patterns and personal superstructures. They affect communication, our communication with loved ones and even with ourselves.
    In the work "Closed space" it is easy to guess the outlines of the female figure, closed in the thickness of the transparent polymer, which are refracted and distorted by bizarre bends of the material and the light. The graceful figure, remotely reminiscent of Venus de Milo, is separated from the surrounding reality by a dense transparent barrier and seems frozen in time between past and present, between community and loneliness.

Nazar Bilyk

AcrossHeight: 50 cmPrice on request

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    In this work, the author continues the main line of his style. The master explores the interaction of a man and the surrounding space, the specifics of the construction of form and its perception by our consciousness. On one hand, this work is characterized by anthropocentrism, it is focused on the image of a man, and on the other - human outlines dissolve in an ideal form and with it - in the environment.
    Turning to the counterform, which in sculpture precedes the appearance of the form, the author seems to direct his gaze to the inner world and through it looks at the outer world, looks inside the process of creation.

Illustration

AcrossHeight: 50 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    In this work, the author continues the main line of his style. The master explores the interaction of a man and the surrounding space, the specifics of the construction of form and its perception by our consciousness. On one hand, this work is characterized by anthropocentrism, it is focused on the image of a man, and on the other - human outlines dissolve in an ideal form and with it - in the environment.
    Turning to the counterform, which in sculpture precedes the appearance of the form, the author seems to direct his gaze to the inner world and through it looks at the outer world, looks inside the process of creation.

Illustration

AcrossHeight: 50 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    In this work, the author continues the main line of his style. The master explores the interaction of a man and the surrounding space, the specifics of the construction of form and its perception by our consciousness. On one hand, this work is characterized by anthropocentrism, it is focused on the image of a man, and on the other - human outlines dissolve in an ideal form and with it - in the environment.
    Turning to the counterform, which in sculpture precedes the appearance of the form, the author seems to direct his gaze to the inner world and through it looks at the outer world, looks inside the process of creation.

Nazar Bilyk

About the artist

Nazar Bilyk was born in Lviv, Ukraine in 1979. Nazar Bilyk describes his artwork as an inner dialogue of a man with himself. He explores the boundaries of visible by means of sculpture, analyzes properties of the form and its interaction with space, experiments with different materials. Using materials like glass, bronze, steel and various polymers the artist creates surreal figures that shift perspectives and expectations. In his works he addresses to a human, exploring relations with society, environment and all natural world. Skillfully combining tradition and innovation, classical and experimental approach, the artist is looking for the definition of the very concept of "modern sculpture". Nazar’s works are diverse and polysemantic from both substantive and technological point of view.

  • List of the exhibitions

     SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
    2019 – Imaginary Distances, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
    2018 – Imaginary Distances, Art Jump Gallery, Poltava, Ukraine
    2018 – Imaginary Distances, Kyiv National Picture Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2014 – Vessels, Bottegа Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2012 – Counterforms, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2011 – Spaces, Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA
    2010 – The borders of the space, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
    2022 – UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
    2021 – Labyrinths of Discourse, Modern Arts Research Institute, Kyiv
    2021 – 30×30. Contemporary Ukrainian Art. National Center Ukrainian House. Кyiv
    2020 – Тhe first public park of Ukrainian contemporary sculpture PARK 3020
    2020 – The Age of Ukrainian Abstraction. Categories of expressiveness, National Museum T.G. Shevchenko, Kyiv
    2020 – The Horizon of Convergence, Jinij Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
    2019 – SMACH, land-art biennial, San Martin de Tor, Italy
    2019 – NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany
    2019 – Double game, Les Jardins d’Etretat, France
    2019 – Sculpture Project “Reforming the Space” M-17 Contemporary art center, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2018 – Revolutionize, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2018 – Conditional way, Gallery Mytets, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2018 – Aurum of the place, Zenko Gallery, Ukraine
    2017 – Oрen air Gallery, Anieres, Switzerland
    2017 – Spaces, Gallery La Cave, Geneva, Switzerland
    2017 – Show promise, Lviv Palace of Arts, Ukraine
    2016 – Kylym. Contemporary Ukrainian artists, Yermilov centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
    2016 – Transformation. Evidence, Kunstund Film Biennale Worpswede, Germany
    2016 – Recipe for Utopia, Мodern art research institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2015 – Ukraine. Transformation der Moderne, Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienn, Austria
    2015 – Dnepr Transformation, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
    2015 – Museum Collection. Ukrainian contemporary art 1985-2015 from private collections, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2015 – Recreation, BIRUCHIY Contemporary Art Project, Irshansk, Ukraine
    2015 – The art of seeing, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2014 – Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain
    2014 – Ukrainian Landscape. Beyond despair, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2014 – Auditions, HudPromo Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
    2014 – Space of Freedom, Yermilov centre, Kharkov, Ukraine
    2013 – Contemporary Ukrainian Artist, Saatchi Gallery, London
    2013 – Sculpture of Sculpture, Yermilov centre, Kharkov, Ukraine
    2013 – Industrial Eden, Мodern art research institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2013 – BIRUCHIY contemporary art project, Ukraine
    2013 – Great and Grand, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2013 – Ukraine today, Czech Republic with Shcherbenko Art center, Prague, Czech Republic
    2013 – Terrain Orientation, National art museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2012 – Artist Draw A4, Ballpoint Pen, Каras Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2012 – Urban culture festival I LOVE KYIV, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2011 – Artist Draw A4, Ballpoint Pen, Каras Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2011 – Triennial of Sculpture, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2011 – Out: Neurodiversity, Мuseum of modern art of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2011 – The Grand Sculptural Salon, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2010 – Dream Catcher Contemporary Festival, Miami, USA
    2010 – MUHI Мodern art research institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2010 – The Grand Sculptural Salon, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2008 – Triennial of Sculpture, Kyiv, Ukraine
    2005 – Triennial of Sculpture, Kyiv, Ukraine

    ART FAIRS (SELECTION)
    2021 – Istambul Contemporary
    2019 – Istambul Contemporary
    2019 – Volta, Basel
    2019 – Kyiv Art Week
    2018 – Kyiv Art Week
    2018 – Art palm beach, NewNow Gallery, Osorio Art Gallery
    2017 – Kyiv Art Weеk
    2016 – ART 16 London, with Zenko Gallery
    2015 – Art Copenhagen, with Dymchuk Gallery
    2015 – Vilnius Art Fair, with Bottegа Gallery
    2013 – Art Kyiv Contemporary, Mystetskyi Arsenal
    2013 – Pulse, Miami
    2012 – Miami International Art Fair, with Black Square Gallery
    2011 – Art Chicago, with Black Square Gallery
    2011 – Scope, with Black Square Gallery
    2010 – Budapest Art Fair Art Hall, Budapest