Vasyl Savchenko – Piece XI (chest)

Private collection

Charcoal on canvas: big feather-like folds of light and dark, the right side sinking into black — Piece XI (chest), 2021

Detail: pale charcoal hatching folding into ridges like skin, a long dark crease and a small star-like mark — Piece XI (chest), 2021

Close-up: soft folds of skin drawn in fine swirling grey hatching, thin dark lines winding between them — Piece XI (chest), 2021

The work is not stretched on a stretcher bar.

Details

Title

Piece XI (chest)

Technique

Charcoal and varnish on cotton canvas

Size

200 × 300 cm

Support by

Istanbul Art Residency

Place

Istanbul, Turkey

Year

2021

Related

Cycle

Residency

2 week in Istanbul Art Residency program, Turkey;

Exhibition

2021 –“Memories and Identities”, Akaretler (Istanbul Art Residency), Istanbul, Turkey;

Publications

Charcoal / Węgiel

Press

NOV 25 – İstanbul Artist Residency 2021 Kapsamında, “Bellekler ve Kimlikler” Sergisi Ziyarete Açıldı

Charcoal on canvas: a pale fan of forms pierced by black thorn-like spikes in a dark field — Piece XIV (Trident), 2022

Charcoal on canvas: dark folds of fabric or muscle pulled into a cross-shaped knot — Piece XV (Biceps bracing), 2022

Huge charcoal drawing, 3 × 10 m: a dense mass of feather-like strokes rising out of white, black at the right — Piece IX

Stitched canvas panels in brown and gold, a large bird-like head with a pale round eye — Piece XIII (The Bird), 2022

Irregular canvas in burnt red, orange and black, a small drawn figure in a circle lower left — Piece XII (under the burnt skin)

Large charcoal drawing, 2 × 4 m: a wide field of feather-like strokes sweeping right into black — Piece VII (chest), 2018

Large charcoal drawing, 3 × 5 m: feather-like strokes forming a shoulder and folded arm, deep black below — Piece X

Large charcoal drawing, 2 × 4 m: sweeping feather-like strokes with a black square in the middle and a cube standing below — Piece VIII

Charcoal drawing, 2 × 1.5 m: curtain-like vertical folds of light and shadow in fine feathered strokes — Piece VI (wrist), 2017

Charcoal drawing, 2 × 3 m: a rounded shoulder of looping feathered strokes emerging from black — Piece V (shoulder), 2017

Long charcoal drawing, 2 × 4.8 m: rippling folds of skin with a dark hollow at the left — Piece III (clavicle and jugular fossa)

Long charcoal drawing, 1.05 × 4.5 m: a pale hollow at the left sinking into dense black feathered strokes — Piece III (jugular fossa)

Charcoal drawing, 4 × 2 m: a bony ridge like a collarbone crossing the sheet, a dark hollow above, feathered strokes — Piece II

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