Vasyl Savchenko – Piece XIII (The Bird)

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

Detail: the raw right edge of the canvas, a gold and brown hatched form like a feathered head against the white wall — Piece XIII (The Bird)

Close-up: a seam stitched across gold-brown hatching, thin gold veins and a dark beak-like hook — Piece XIII (The Bird), 2022

Close-up: gold feather-like hatching curving over black, stitched seams meeting at the bottom — Piece XIII (The Bird), 2022

Close-up: dark brown and gold strokes like feathers, a lit stitched seam at the right edge — Piece XIII (The Bird), 2022

Two-frame animation: the back of the stitched canvas with white patches, then its brown-gold front, the artist blurred beside — Piece XIII

The work is not stretched on a stretcher. The painting substrate has been assembled from several pieces of canvas, which have been sewn together with thread.

Details

Title

Piece XIII (The Bird)

Technique

Oil, charcoal and varnish on cotton canvas

Size

185 × 184 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

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

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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