Ivan Bazak
08 Feb - 30 Mar 2008
IVAN BAZAK
"HOUSES"
The current exhibition in the Kewenig Galerie shows paintings, objects and drawings by Ivan Bazak (born 1980). His leitmotiv are houses, which allow him to examine the ralation between inside and outside.
An example for this was the exhibition "Peter's New Houses", lately shown in Dortmund, where Bazak thematized the building boom of churches in Poland's countryside.
The houses in Bazak's new paintings presented in the Kewenig Gallery are old production facilities, industrialists' mensions and houses of workers, which location is not defined. His pictures are never a rendering of his enviroment, but rather an examination of Ukrainian and Post-soviet traditions. Like some artists before him Bazak uses pictures of deserted landscapes as a kind of projection screen for his own experiences and compounds. Due to the focus on the essentials and neglecting of the surroundings Bazak's houses beginn to speak outwards from the center. They give off the aura of their occupants. The presented paintings are mood pieces, not a documentation.
Beyond this Bazak's works show different kinds of house models, which are accompanied by video and sound recordings. They tell about the relation between indoor and outdoor, public and private, work and life. They invite to contemplate the 'house' and it's personal and public meaning as times change.
The exhibition includes also a new video work showing the agile goings on a building site of a 20 floor high rise in Kiev. The fassade arises, while the inside has to be given a form and a function.
"HOUSES"
The current exhibition in the Kewenig Galerie shows paintings, objects and drawings by Ivan Bazak (born 1980). His leitmotiv are houses, which allow him to examine the ralation between inside and outside.
An example for this was the exhibition "Peter's New Houses", lately shown in Dortmund, where Bazak thematized the building boom of churches in Poland's countryside.
The houses in Bazak's new paintings presented in the Kewenig Gallery are old production facilities, industrialists' mensions and houses of workers, which location is not defined. His pictures are never a rendering of his enviroment, but rather an examination of Ukrainian and Post-soviet traditions. Like some artists before him Bazak uses pictures of deserted landscapes as a kind of projection screen for his own experiences and compounds. Due to the focus on the essentials and neglecting of the surroundings Bazak's houses beginn to speak outwards from the center. They give off the aura of their occupants. The presented paintings are mood pieces, not a documentation.
Beyond this Bazak's works show different kinds of house models, which are accompanied by video and sound recordings. They tell about the relation between indoor and outdoor, public and private, work and life. They invite to contemplate the 'house' and it's personal and public meaning as times change.
The exhibition includes also a new video work showing the agile goings on a building site of a 20 floor high rise in Kiev. The fassade arises, while the inside has to be given a form and a function.