Semenyuk Evgen

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Artist Statement

 

I make my art in a wide, creative, and technical range and use different modern artistic medias.
An artist must create characters that can evoke a wide variety of emotions. The palette of human feelings is so great that there can't be a single method for expressing them.
I would be bored if I had to to paint a variations of the same picture for 20 years. Therefore, I explore the topic of expanding borders in my art - how much can an artist move within a single methodological field?
I make art all the time, regardless of whether when I'm painting, traveling, or talking on the phone. Characters sometimes come spontaneously; sometimes I see them in real life. Any art materials are worthy of attention. I draw with a pencil or a ballpoint pen on cardboard or stickers. These sketches can become a painting, graphics, or remain sketches.
Though I use the capabilities of modern digital media, I still prefer traditional art materials and techniques. I use modern polymeric materials in sculptural art objects and installations more and more often. This is fully applicable to my paintings: using acrylic and textural materials makes it possible to create unique mixed effects, and traditional oil paints now act as auxiliary media.

 

About

 

Artist based in Kiev (Ukraine). Has 12 personal exhibitions.

Participant of many others events and art-projects.

Educated in Secondary School of Art (1977) and Degree of Architecture University (1982). 

In 1967-1976 Trained in the art studio of painter Valentin Pokatashkin (Belarus). 
Born in 1960 in Gomel (Belarus). 


 

 

Solo exhibitions:

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- 2019. Boston. MA - September 15 - October 1, 2019. Autumn Fine Arts exhibition. Webster Bank. Needham office. (Boston. MA)

- 2018 - Exhibition "Not Just a Game". Gallery Riviera. Nikolaev city. Ukraine.  

- 2015 - Exhibition "Givet for Givet". Joint art project with the artist Olena Berezyanska. 

Gallery "Schos Tsikave". Lviv.

- 2014 - Exhibition "Paris in my heart". Art-cluster in restaurant "Crepe de Shin", Kiev.

- 2010 - Gallery of G.H. Vaschenko, Gomel. 

- 2008 - Gallery "LaSandr- Art", Minsk. 

- 2006 - Bulgakov House, Moscow. 

- 2003 - Gallery " Union Creativity", Moscow. 

- 2002 - Exhibition Hall Regional Studies Museum, Gomel. 

- 2000 - Exhibition Hall University F.Skaryna, Gomel. 

- 1999 - Art-Salon "Mastak", Minsk. 

- 1995 - Exhibition Hall, Gomel. 

 

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Participation in other exhibitions and art-projects:

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- 2021. Bessarabia. Roseyka. Ukraine. September 2021. Participant of Artistic plein air and the final exhibition "Color of Velvet ( Minus civilization)".

- 2020. Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. Ukraine. September 2020. Akkerman fortress Gallery. Participant of the final exhibition of Artistic plein air "Bessarabia Art party".

- 2019. Venezia - May 11-November 24, 2019 - Participant of the project The Shadow of Dream in Ukrainian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

​- 2018. Nikolaev. December 2018-January, 2019. Nikolaev City Palace of Culture and Arts.

Exhibition "Kinburn. Art-Elit" following the plein air of 2018 at the Kinburn Spit.

- 2018. Kiev. December. "Karas Gallery". Art project "A4. Ballpoint Pen".

- 2018. Kiev. June 9 - june 17. Member of First Fine Arts Fair. Kiev. VDNG (Expo Center of Ukraine).

- 2017. Kiev. December. "Karas Gallery". Art project "A4. Ballpoint Pen".

- 2016. Kiev. December. "Karas Gallery". Art project "A4. Ballpoint Pen".

-2016. Kiev. June. Art gallery "Mitets". Exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian artists.
-2016. Kiev. April. "Mystetskyi Arsenal". VI International Festival "Book Arsenal".
- 2015. Kiev. December. "Karas Gallery". Art project "A4. Ballpoint Pen".

- 2015. Kiev. April. "Mystetskyi Arsenal". V International Festival "Book Arsenal".

- 2014. Kiev. December. "Karas Gallery". Art project "A4. Ballpoint Pen".

- 2014. Kiev. December. Kiev fortress. Art Festival "Talent Energy Fest".

- 2014. Kiev. August.  Art-picnic Slava Frolova. "Expo Center of Ukraine". Exhibition "Golden rain".

- 2014. Kiev. June. Art-picnic Slava Frolova. "Expo Center of Ukraine". Exhibition "Kilogram-force meter".

- 2014. Kiev. April. "Mystetskyi Arsenal".  IV International Festival "Book Arsenal".

- 2014. Kiev. February. Museum "Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine". Festival "Love is ..." presentation of       the art project "About Love".

- 2014. Kiev. January - February. Museum "Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine". The exhibition "Ukrainian               Language".

- 2013. Kiev. September. Member of the visual part of the Festival of Contemporary Art "GogolFest."

- 2013. Kiev. July - September. Art-picnic Slava Frolova. "Expo Center of Ukraine". Participated in exhibitions of  "Heritage", "Labyrinth", "Dependent-Independent", "Bar-code".

- 2012. Gomel - St. Petersburg. August - October. Member of the international project "Wanderers. XXI         century".

- 2010. Kiev. August. Gallery "Griffin" member of the art-action "Art Way".

- 2008. Gomel - St. Petersburg. March-May. Member of the international project "Wanderers. XXI century".

- 2008. Kiev. December. Gallery "Pit-Àrt" Christmas Exhibition, the participant in exposure.

- 2005. Minsk. August. Gallery "LaSandr-art". The exhibition "Contemporary Art of Belarus".

- 2005. Minsk. December. Gallery "LaSandr-art". Christmas exhibition.

- 2004. Minsk. December. Gallery "LaSandr-art". Christmas exhibition.

- 2002. Gomel. December. Gallery G.Vashchenko Art project "Gomel beautiful and poetic."

 

His art-works are in collections: 

 

- In the Collections of Public, 

Cultural and Sports Figures of US, EU, Britain,

Australia, Israel, South Korea, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia;

- US diplomatic corps;

- The Royal Danish University;  
- "Karas Gallery". Kiev;
- Gallery "LaSandr-art", Minsk; 
- "A Thousand Names of Russia" Gallery "Union Creativity", Moscow;

- Gallery G.H.Vaschenko, Gomel;

- Gomel regional museum;
- in private collections.

 

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