PUBLIC ART – NAZAR BILYK

VESSEL

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h-210 cm. bronze. Sydney, Australia

REVELATION, 2021

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h-210 cm. bronze . Revelation Revelation documents the artist’s reflections on the environment surrounding every person. It is our environment that defines our choices and models our worldview, affecting our life no less than our DNA. At the center of the composition is an empty space in the shape of a human figure, and it is this emptiness that gets equated with personhood. It wouldn’t have existed and wouldn’t have been visible to us if not for the rounded vertical mass of heavy metal that reveals its presence. This mass is the surrounding space, the corpus of preconditions and circumstances that define us. The human figure in this sculpture is created based on what it isn’t: it is revealed by its environment. In the absence of real volume, the volume we deal with is imaginary, and it has to be filled with values, ideas or a worldview.

from the series SPACE AROUND, 2021

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h- 240 cm. resins, marble, fiberglass, stainless steel. . In the work Surrounding Space, the creative process unfolds backwards, not as an expression of an idea but as the very process of reflection. The artist engages in an experiment, seeking to trace the outline and document the space surrounding his characters in sculptural forms, and to consider the very nature and qualities of this space. Exploring the relations between individuals and their surroundings, he addresses the issue of individual freedom when confronted with social and cultural influences. Nazar Bilyk treats the sculpture not as an independent work but rather as the process of revelation, an ancillary method to document the dynamics of an individual’s relations with the sacred, social or cultural environment: “I pour liquid white plaster into a space where it enfolds emptiness, revealing human presence. The human figure becomes ambivalent: on the one hand, it is the center, the essence that defines the space, but at the same time, it is an instrument of that revelation rather than an object. ”This principle describes both the idea behind the work, and the artist’s method. The artist invites his viewers to use their imagination to deduce the image from the space surrounding the “nonexistent sculpture” of a human being without focusing on the sculpture as such. The viewers are encouraged to complete the creative process in their own mind, independently, by engaging with the space that defines the image, and thus is the main object of the artist’s interest. Human portraits at the center of the Surrounding Space are not individualized: they are markedly stripped of all signs of individuality. These portraits represent various projections of a universal mask that the artist saw in modeling software. This is a prototype of an individual that carries all potentialities and the dynamic of change. Similarly to the laws of quantum mechanics, this neutral image is a vessel of manifold potentialities that can become manifest depending on the conditions of their environment or the surrounding space. Natalia Matsenko

SPACE AROUND, 2019

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“Space around” is devoted to the interaction of people and the environment, the study of the specifics of the construction of form and its perception by our consciousness. On the one hand, the sculpture is focused on the image of the person. On the other – human outlines dissolve in the ideal shape of the sphere, and within it – in space. Turning to the counterform, the artist concentrates his gaze on the inner world and looks through it at the environment, looks inside the very process of creation, slightly pulling back the veil of mystery, but leaving room for the assumptions.

MONUMENT TO JOURNALIST PAUL SHEREMET. KIEV

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Thinking about the solution of the memorial sign to Pavel Sheremet, I did not want to come up with anything especially. And on the contrary, get rid of the so-called "artistic solutions" as much as possible. And the very place where the car with Pavel was blown up gave the idea of a future memorial sign. It was here at the crossroads that the explosion took place. Therefore, I went through the documentation and links about the tragedy and suggested placing a white marble stele at the intersection of these streets. The crumpled sheet of paper is a symbol of the tragic death of Pavel Sheremet. The white color of the leaf is the field of the statement of the journalist, his life ... And when he was enlarged to the size of a man's height, he became his personification. The deformed inscription in the center of the monument can only be read from the facade. Taking a step to the side, we will see the nervous breaks of the letters, hiding the name of the journalist from the audience. The memorial sign was symbolically unveiled at 7.45 a.m. on July 20, 2020, exactly during the explosion 4 years later.

SPACE AROUND, 2019

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h-190cm resins, fiberglass, metal

QUOTS 2019

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SMACH 2019. Constellation of art, culture & history in the Dolomites. The work “Quotes” by Nazar Bilyk is a reflection on what determines the personal feeling of the homeland at a time when most of its attributes are losing their significance. Is identity formed by place of residence while it is so easy to change cities, countries, continents? Is experience formed by the environment when personal connections are inferior to virtual ones? What creates genetic memory and cultural code of society when the information field is no longer limited by physical boundaries? Perhaps now, as never before, personal boundaries of the inner homeland are becoming more and more subjective and impermanent. These are “the quotes” in which a modern man seeks to incorporate changeable values, trying to outline their shaky boundaries. But it seems that “the quotes” only indicate the illusory nature and the impossibility of creating one’s own image of the home

SPACE AROUND, 2018

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h- 250 cm. metal, fiberglass, resins. Polyurethane paint. Business-center «Toronto», Kiev

SPACE AROUND, 2017

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(work in progress) resins, metal, h-450 cm

WALKING ON WATER, 2017

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Resins, foto, 20х20 сm

Biruchiy 2017 pulled me out of the city rhythm as never before. I wanted to get distracted and stay by the sea, so this year's work is very much related to the main environment of the Biruchiy island, the sea. "Walking on the Water" is about the biblical tale of a miracle. About its possibility in our lives. About our desire and hope for it. That's why I set up a small laboratory on an island, to turn a liquid substance into a solid matter, which one could walk on. This is a model that came out of my experiments and reflections on miracle. A miracle is a change in the natural course of events and violation of known laws. Recently, we use this word less and less, because technical progress, discoveries and experiments can assert us in our own "divinity." My reflections on miracle were not only about the general phenomenon, but more about the aspect of a miracle that prompts a person to strive for something. The work touches on a theme of miracle as a very important need in life, realization of which is always sought by many of us, dreaming of something. The desire to realize the impossible alters reality, disagreement with nature and belief in supernatural actually reveal our deepest aspirations.