From the Concentration of the Will at M17Scorched Earth20x30 cm, fiberboard, mixed media, 2022Price on request
From the Concentration of the Will at M17Scorched Earth41x88 cm, fiberboard, mixed media, 2022Price on request
From the Concentration of the Will at M17Scorched Earth53x73 cm, fiberboard, mixed media, 2022Price on request
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"Scorched Earth" is a project about the consequences of what I saw and experienced, when it seemed that the usual paints and canvases were not enough to convey my feelings. It seemed that no matter what I did, it was just a picture without emotion. Fire, which was destroying everything around it, became the form of expression that could show that destruction would necessarily create something new.
Works created by fire are a freeze-frame of destruction, which should not be feared, but simply accepted as a fact of irreversibility of what has already happened. My project is about a fire that destroys, but in this place, over time, flowers will definitely grow, the flowers of our future.
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Zakhar Shevchuk's "Scorched Earth"
“Scorched Earth is about the consequences of what I witnessed and experienced… when it seemed that my usual paints and canvases were not enough to express my feelings. It seemed that whatever I created was just a picture with no emotion. The fire, which destroyed everything around me, became a form of expression showing that destruction is bound to create something new.
The works created by a fire are a stop-motion image of destruction, which should not be fearsome, but accepted as a fact of the irreversibility of an event that has already happened. My project is about the fire that destroys, yet flowers will grow in this place, over time, the flowers of our future."
About the artist
Zakhar Shevchuk was born in 1992 in Polonne, Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine. Artist. Lecturer and curator of the drawing department at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Education2007 – 2012 Arts College named after M.B. Grekov, (Odessa, Ukraine)2012 – 2017 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Master of Arts (Kyiv, Ukraine)2015 Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (KAMA), Graduated the Contemporary Art Course Program
Awards2017 Kyiv Art Fort (Painting Competition for Anatoliy Kryvolap Prize) Kyiv, Ukraine, First Prize2017 Silver Easel (Open Student Contest in Painting), Uzhhorod, Ukraine, Grand Prix2016 VI National Painting Art Triennale, Kyiv, Ukraine, Nominated2015 Olexander Murashko National Art Competition, Kyiv, Ukraine, Nominated
List of the exhibitions
2023 White World Gallery / The First International Triennial of Drawing exhibition: Glory to Ukraine!, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Imagine Point Gallery / “One Day After…”,Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Spilne Art online platform / Earth, Peremoga space, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Curiosa / House Of Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Don’t Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War / New Art Corridor, Newton, United States
2021 A Priori / Neuer Wall, 72, Hamburg, Germany
2021 Room with a View, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 Observation / White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 VII National Painting Art Triennale / Artists Union of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 VI National Painting Art Triennale / Artists Union of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Olexander Murashko National Art Competition, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 International Art Project and Exhibition, Kotor, Montenegro
2015 National Art Project “Historic Figures of the Future”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 National Cultural Project “Young Inspiration of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 National Youth Exhibition dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 Juried Exhibition “Crystal Palette”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 National Christmas exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 National Exhibition “Ukraine and Ukrainians: The Glorious Lands of the Cossacks”, Odessa, Ukraine
2012 Young Artists group exhibition, Odessa, Ukraine