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Bahatska Nataliia

Year of birth 1967
Place of living and work Kyiv
About myself and my artworks

I live in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Profession Artist. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Material specialization: Acrylic painting
Repertoire: Objects, people, hyperrealism, photorealism, realism, semi-abstraction. Historical oil painting techniques embodied in acrylic.
Plots: Still life, nature, environment, people.
A little more about me.
I spend over 11 hours a day at my easel.
I can see at a glance whether the plot or composition will look on the canvas.
I know what global trends are, what prestigious galleries at Art Basel offer and what is trending for modern interiors.
And this is not fortune-telling. This is knowledge and experience!
Once I realized that making money on "Popular Subjects" is certainly good, but it is much more pleasant for me to give people not just beauty, but also originality, meanings, style, delight!
To create one picture, I take more than a hundred photographs in order to choose the best one.
But these efforts are more than justified by the Wow effect from the contemplation of the picture.
My first education and long practice was a fashion designer. Fashion and style is built-in. There are no exes in this case!
I myself earn and value money! And not only their own, but also their collectors. I confidently call myself a PROS in painting and constantly keep my knowledge in good shape and develop, develop, develop.
Artist's statement.
I share my surprise at nature in painting, based in large part on her experience in fashion and design. In every work I try to comprehend the world, to portray the subject more realistically than it really is. And I do not just draw a beautiful picture, but in my works I reflect. Inspired by pop culture, politics, icons and modern trends, the idea behind my work remains the same - to create simple and understandable messages delivered in a clean and visually satisfying manner. In my acrylics, I compete with the camera, trying to prove to myself that humans can compete with technology. I love hyperrealism because it's a very complex style and people like it.
I paint hyperrealism with acrylics because it's even harder than oils. Every time I start a new job, I think that it is impossible to do it. And every time at the end of the work I get pleasure - WOW I did it! ..

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SERIES (3)

Life in Avatar (54)

The series "Life in an Avatar" is my personal imagination of a life that could be, the life that everyone has the right to, russian aggression took my life... This is my virtual life, because real life now is the expectation of Victory. All the works are made in the format of photos, in which people record some special moments in order to post those photos on social networks. Lisa's face is in all the pictures because Lisa is the perfect Avatar. She has survived more than one war and remains as beautiful and desirable in the future...

Party (24)

And what if there was no time, no distance, and brilliant artists of different times and eras met once? They would gather in a vast studio and agree on cooperation to create their masterpieces together, without competition and high meanings, but simply for the sake of creativity

Hyperrealistic paintings (21)

In every artwork I try to comprehend the world, to portray the subject more realistically than it really is. And I do not just draw a beautiful picture, but in my works I reflect. Inspired by pop culture, politics, icons and modern trends, the idea behind my work remains the same - to create simple and understandable messages delivered in a clean and visually satisfying manner. In my acrylics, I compete with the camera, trying to prove to myself that humans can compete with technology. I love hyperrealism because it's a very complex style and people like it. I paint hyperrealism with acrylics because it's even harder than oils. Every time I start a new job, I think that it is impossible to do it. And every time at the end of the work I get pleasure - WOW I did it!

BIOGRAPHY
Education

1992 - graduated from the Kiev National University of Technology and Design, specialization Fashion designer

2004 - graduated from Human Capacity Institute (School of Energy and Information Development)

2008 - graduated from St. Petersburg Psychosocial Technologies Academy, Psychology of Conflict Department

Achievements and awards

2017 - National Union of Artists of Ukraine

EXHIBITIONS

Solo exhibitions:

2022, «Live in Avatar» in Art-Caffe "Klub", Kyiv.
2018 "The Night" in "Zavalnyi Art Center" Kyiv
2018 "Whish You Were Here", Museum of Lesya Ukrainka. Kyiv
2017 "A Little of Silence" in "Zavalnyi Art Center" Kyiv, Ukraine.

Group:

IV Ukrainian Festival of Contemporary Women's Art at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2021

International exhibition "# 365daysafter" in the gallery "Artist", Kyiv, 2021.

Exhibition "HRYVNA ART" in the Art center "Svitovid", Kolomyia, 2021. Exhibition "HRYVNA ART" in the Palace of Arts, Lviv, 2021.

Exhibition "HRYVNA ART" in the Museum of History of Kyiv, Kyiv, 2021.

Exhibition "HRYVNA ART" in the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2021.

Exhibition at the Sky Mall, Kiev. 2021
Exhibition-competition Pro Cheese Awards, Kiev, Parkovy Exhibition and Convention Center. Grand Prix. 2021

Exhibition "Барви світу" in Parlament of Ukraine. Kyiv. Ukraine, 2019
Sheldon Rose Gallery, "Big Ideas in Small Art", Toronto, Canada, 2019
Group exhibition from Ukraine at 58 Venice Biennale, "Falling shadow Dreams over gardens Giardini ". Italy, 2019
Exhibition "Vizionario" in la galleria Merlino Bottega d'arte di Firenze. Italy, 2019
Exhibition in ABC-art gallery. Kyiv, 2019
1st All-Ukrainian Triennale "NU-ART", Kremenchuk, 2018
"Ukraine from Trypillya to the present in the images of contemporary artists" - Biennial. National Union of Artists of Ukraine (NUAU), Kyiv, 2018
"Picturesque Ukraine", NUAU,the city of Severodonetsk, 2017.
Biennale of abstract Painting,NUAU, Kyiv, 2017
Until the Day of the Artist, NUAU, Kyiv, 2016, 2017, 2018.
"Portrait Painting" , gallery "Mytets", Kyiv, 2017
"To the 160th anniversary of Ivan Franko",NUAU, Ivano-Frankivsk city, 2016
On Independence Day of Ukraine, NUAU, Kyiv, 2017, 2018, 2019.
"Picturesque Ukraine", NUAU, Sumy, 2016
"Quinghi Memorial", NUAU, Mariupol, 2016
"Portrait Painting", gallery "Mitets", Kyiv, 2016, 2017.
Christmas exhibition, NUAU, Kyiv, 2015,2016,2017,2018

The artworks are in private collections and galleries in Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, France, Great Britain, USA, Vietnam, Canada, Netherlands.

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KyivGallery Art Critic Art critic's review 26/06/2018

Nataliia Bahatska paints in style complex and mixed, for example, based on the style of realism, she modifies it in different paintings, adding surrealism or elements of the style of cubism, or even creating a mystical, illusory environment around the realistic objects.

Nataliia Bahatska's comprehensive education determined her search. As a fashion designer, she creted series of paintings, where the girls are quite realistically depicted on the background of geometric planes, as though borrowed from cubism paintings.

Nataliia paints a number of still lifes - as a "replica" on the subject of Dutch and English classical still lifes with the accompanying attributes: vases, glasses, fruits and flowers appear on a deep dark background. All these objects and environments acquire their aura, glow, giving the viewer a kind of mystical realism. Elements of mysticism are butterflies, present in a number of female images: "Memoir", "Mock", "Oh you girlfriend ...". These images, concise in their graphic completeness, attribute us to the metamodern style, which is based on some contradictions, instability, incompleteness.

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KyivGallery Art Critic Art critic's review 26/06/2018

Nataliia Bahatska paints in style complex and mixed, for example, based on the style of realism, she modifies it in different paintings, adding surrealism or elements of the style of cubism, or even creating a mystical, illusory environment around the realistic objects.

Nataliia Bahatska's comprehensive education determined her search. As a fashion designer, she creted series of paintings, where the girls are quite realistically depicted on the background of geometric planes, as though borrowed from cubism paintings.

Nataliia paints a number of still lifes - as a "replica" on the subject of Dutch and English classical still lifes with the accompanying attributes: vases, glasses, fruits and flowers appear on a deep dark background. All these objects and environments acquire their aura, glow, giving the viewer a kind of mystical realism. Elements of mysticism are butterflies, present in a number of female images: "Memoir", "Mock", "Oh you girlfriend ...". These images, concise in their graphic completeness, attribute us to the metamodern style, which is based on some contradictions, instability, incompleteness.

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