Zolotariov Oleksii

Oleksii Zolotariov is an artist of clear forms and precise articulation of meanings.

Education.

In 2003, he graduated from the State Art High School named after Taras Shevchenko, faculty of sculpture.

2010 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAFA), faculty of sculpture.

2013 Residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England.

Creative path

The picture of the world in his works is reduced to the laconicism of geometric construction, where the archaic and the modern, the mental and the material, the male and the female are combined in syncretism or dynamic opposition.

Choosing simple basic geometric shapes, the sculptor builds a fine line between fullness and emptiness, as if visualising spatial, chronological and semantic connections between different elements of reality, its micro and macro structure and dialectical essence.

In his works, Oleksii expands the boundaries of personal space, involving the global, social, and painful, and records the results of the impact.

The sharp and mobile open volumes capture a sense of the complex dynamics of the modern world and the cultural situation of his own country in its context.

Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, winner of the competition from the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre for the installation of urban sculpture, winner of the Kyiv Sculpture Project, winner of the Kyiv Mayor’s Award; founder of the Radius residence of volumetric thinking (Kyiv).