Vasyl Savchenko – Piece XII (under the burnt skin)

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

Detail: the lower corner of the unstretched canvas in burnt red and orange, thorn-like black marks, raw edge on white — Piece XII

Detail: a small figure in a circle drawn among folds of burnt red and orange — Piece XII (under the burnt skin), 2022

Close-up: folds like stretched skin in red and orange hatching, crossed by black spikes — Piece XII (under the burnt skin)

Detail: the left edge of the canvas, dark red folds, a cross-shaped seam and a small drawn figure at top right — Piece XII, 2022

The artist standing beside the huge unstretched red-orange canvas on a white wall, showing its scale — Piece XII (under the burnt skin)

The work is not stretched on a stretcher bar.

Details

Title

Piece XII (under the burnt skin)

Technique

Oil, charcoal and varnish on cotton canvas

Size

240 × 315 см (not a regular form)

Support by

Department of Culture of the Gdansk city

Place

Gdańsk, Poland

Year

2022

Related

Cycle

Scholarship

Dream and memory project, with four months support by the Department of Culture of Gdansk city, Poland;

Website share

Academy of Fine Art in Gdansk

Savchenko Gallery

Exhibition

2022 – “Dream and Memory”, Gallery of the Graphics Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland;

Publications

Charcoal / Węgiel

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

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

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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