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Bilyk Nazar
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Only by closely examining the distorted heads can one understand that beneath the outer layer lie entirely different – classical anthropomorphic forms. These are study sculptures, portraits from life of the artist’s friends and loved ones, created over the past fifteen years. Throughout this time, they remained on the shelves of the artist’s studio, and now, finally, they are captured within the confines of semi-transparent plastic. Over time, a similar process inevitably occurs in our memory. This “lamination,” as Nazar Bilyk describes it, documents personal memories and speaks to the fact that even our knowledge of a close person is always vague and incomplete. It can only be fully understood by shedding our own perceptual templates.
Sculptor, author of works in public space. Lives and works in Kyiv.
1979 – born in Lviv, Ukraine
1994-1999 – Boychuk Institute of Applied and Decorative Art and Design
1999-2005 – National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005-2008 – Postgraduate student of the studios of National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
A participant in numerous exhibitions and symposiums in Ukraine and abroad. A finalist of the “MUHi” competition (Young Ukrainian Artists, 2010). Winner of the competition for the best monument project “To the Slain Sons of Ukraine,” realized in 2002 in collaboration with Mykola Malyshko. In 2013, he received a Presidential Grant of Ukraine in the field of visual arts for the creation of works from the “Counterforms” series. One of the finalists and participants of the “Smach 2019” Sculpture and Land Art Biennale in Italy. His works have been presented at the contemporary art exhibition “NordArt” in Germany. A participant in the “Double Game” exhibition at the Étretat Gardens in Normandy, France.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2022 – Fusion, National Center Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
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
Artworks Bilyk Nazar
