scetch 9 Print

Between Now and Always You should see these paintings in the original. Any advanced printing technology fails to reproduce succulent "�vitality' of the forms and vivacious vibration of the pictures created by the Lviv painter Serhiy Reznichenko. I would describe the process, which takes place in the artist's studio, as a revelation session. If you believe, that nothing comes out of nowhere and nothing vanishes into thin air, then you see this process as a revelation of images, moods, emotions that saturate our world. On his pictures Serhiy only alludes to a certain story. We feel absolutely free to seek for some explanation among thousands of memory records of the things we have once seen or read. But we can also rely upon a spontaneous wave of imagination and see, on what unknown shore it will land us. A time span, a dress, and small details become only a tuning fork that sets a tonality of the whole artwork. Therefore, a post-modern flavoured masquerade does not turn into a cunning crossword of colours. There is no reason for that. There is no need to play a Guess What or a Know/Don't Know Game here. Serhiy already knows, what we know, and he talks to us, as if we all were old friends, in half words and half phrases. Besides his magnificent (in a classical meaning of this word) painting, this friendly trust is just another generous gift the artist gives to us, at the times when we all are tired of non-stop tests on how smart, modern or how far advanced we are... Life banality seems to weaken through blurred forms. Instead, we get the opportunity to concentrate on something, which is really important; we have a chance to feel the world at the point of its equilibrium and enjoin this moment of harmony, when "�everything is just fine', the moment that the artist brings to a standstill for each of us personally. The longer you look into his creations, the deeper you dive into the otherness of their reality. This reality seduces you with a cob pattern of associations, entangling dē-jà vu, manifold night visions... Soft curtsies to old masters and an impressionistic approach to the texture are just a means to make layers of images that build up a multifaceted intricate world on a few meter-sized canvas. This is the way the artist creates his paintings; he puts a layer of a variation on top of another variation within one heartbeat, or sometimes within a few days or even weeks.