Dialog

Voloshyn Gallery presents a collaborative exhibition of the Czech artist Rudolf Burda and a Ukrainian Mikhailo Deyak “Dialog”.  A visitor will have an opportunity to see a dialogue between sculptures of glass and laconic landscapes on glass at the exhibition.

The series of minimalist landscapes by Deyak is named Space, which famously can be interpreted as “cosmos”, though the author rather meant a more general value of “expanse”. In these works the artist is not willing to impose his vision or thoughts on the spectator, rather he reckons upon the spectator to enter into a dialogue with the work and him- or herself. Space is a psychological project about our inner world.

Rudolf Burda also presents a very personal and at once clearly specified rendering of the expanse topic. His sculptures really look like space objects, or even an embodiment of human viewpoint on structure of the galaxy. On the face of it composition-enclosed spherical art-objects declare to be massing essence, which can be easily readable. But simultaneously they can be perceived as separate self-sufficing depths.

Under overall minimalist tendency of the artists’ works, the selection process of the materials and parlance already becomes a creative act. Minimum of means and maximum of results — it may be one more feature, which unites both authors in this so called Dialog. Without any collusion they both choose only the necessary. And everything which can turn out to be excessive and distracting from the main theme is just not used. This feature tends to identify the real artist.

Burda’s and Deyak’s subjectivity, albeit is rather obvious, gives an opportunity for a spectator to correlate his or her own emotional and creative experience with the artists’ sentence. The authors as if foresee a certain “starting point”, from which a spectator can proceed with the topic independently. They only give a “sufficient reason” for the creative act to take place. But who and how proceeds with it and finalizes it — that is the freedom of each particular beholder.

The artists don’t have absolutely inanimate nature or, more specifically, substance. Sometimes there is some ineffable, but also rather distinctly audible interplay of materials and narratives. The symbols are totally dissolved in the textures and stains. However, their occurrence in each work is evident.