Sculpture “Secret portal” (2024)

The exceptional power of color as a medium appealing directly to the viewer has fascinated many generations of artists. Nazar Symotiuk's Color Fields series can be perceived as an echo of abstract expressionism, but in a new aesthetic form. It is a representation of perceptual meanings that create a transcendental space. Similar to the "color field" artist Barnett Newman, the author finds his own "lightning that animates everything".

The artist uses optical effects and achieves a special textured sound in his wooden panels. The depth and interaction of colors helps the viewers to dissolve in the semantic space of the works.

As Clement Greenberg, a key theorist of Abstract Expressionism, wrote, "The borders of large canvases play the same role as the inner lines of shapes. They divide, but they do not separate, close or isolate anything. They set boundaries but do not limit anything..."

The used technique of gradient stretching encourages the viewers to pay attention to the center of the composition, which is clearly defined by a vertical light accent. This series by Nazar Symotiuk demonstrates that each color field contains not only light or dark, but also a ray of truth, which is always in the middle.



Lyudmyla Smakova
art manager, curator