Serhiy Reznichenko

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...