When Vasya Dmytryk works with material, he explores its sensory and symbolic nature. Each material has its specific language, and working by hand reveals it. The language of wood, metal, stone, styrofoam, whereas sometimes Vasya brings new words to this process, creating a new dictionary. He is interested in searching for primary foundations, the search for realness at the stage of its birth. In my artistic practice, he explores primitive reality, which is a vital matter of the world.
Artist biography
Vasya Dmytryk was born in 1991 and graduated from the Grekov Art School in Odesa, Ukraine. Vasya works in the fields of public art, sculptures, and installations.
In his artistic practice, he uses recycled and discarded materials, wood, metal, stone, styrofoam, and composites. In his sculptures, Vasya blurs boundaries between flatness
and dimensionality, formalism and conceptualism. Dmytryk's pieces thread figuration and abstraction; they nevertheless recall classical figurative traditions across a range of cultures and historical periods.
INDUSTRIAL FAIRY TALE
The installation consists of 15 sculptures and objects. The materials for the installation are wooden models and molds found on the territory of a former shipyard called SRZ-2. The sculptor transforms these objects to a different extent, referring to his personal experience and cultural memory of this place.
The installation consists of 15 sculptures and objects.
The materials for the installation are wooden models and molds found on the territory of a former shipyard called SRZ-2. The sculptor transforms these objects into different extentaIndustrial hand-made objects. They have a special lyrical, and memorial essence that can shrink can become akin to a person, can reveal themselves more fully as other properties fade into the background, depreciate and become obsolete. Their technological novelty, market value, and aesthetic appeal have already been lost. Despite this, the transformed objects begin to narrate, balancing between sacredness and a new functional characteristic., referring to his personal experience and cultural memory of this place.
Sculpture "Countess" 174 x 111 x 34 cm
In 1903, a rescue station with a ballroom and swimming pool was built on the site of SRZ-2. Here was going to hike secular society, and Countess Tolstaya, who lived in Odessa till 1919, definitely visited this place.
Mobile sculpture "Doctor N" 190 x 115 х 82 cm
It is equipped with a sophisticated tool kit of steel and glass on a massive wooden basis.
113 x 59 x 59 cm, 109 x 65 x 65 cm
The body of a gearbox on massive chains suspended to the ceiling represents a knight.
Solo Exhibition
Industrial Fairytale, Muzeon, Odessa, Ukraine, 2019
Group exhibitions
(SELF)IDENTIFICATION, Invogue Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine, 2019
Informat, Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Ukraine, 2016
Night of Museums, Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Ukraine, 2014
Sculpture on the open air, Odessa Art Museum, Ukraine, 2014
