STRIPTEASE Sculpture

Igor Vasylenko was born in 1958 in Ukraine. He made his first clay sculptures and wood works on a sculpture course when he was studying at the architecture department of the institute. Later, already working as an architect, Igor encountered many building and finishing materials. He studied their properties and tried them on for further use in small plastics, in particular for creating small architectural forms. This experience would be useful to him when he began developing sculptures for open spaces. Currently, when creating his sculptures, he experiments with ceramic tiles, sheets of light alloys (copper, brass, aluminum), plastic, etc. But steel wire becomes his real passion. He came to this material almost by accident, when it was necessary to embody the found composition, but no other material was suitable for the task. With this material, Igor felt a new freedom for shaping and saw endless possibilities for expressing energy. Sometimes he covers his wire sculptures with various paints, but usually leaves them as is. In his works, Igor strives to reveal the theme of multiple interpretations, play, variability, inner life and the resilience of the human spirit. In doing so, he refers to the history of ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Mexico and Trypillia. His images are allegorical, symbolic, metaphorical and sometimes surreal or fantasy.