Exhibition of artists-winners of artrating Sergey Gai (Lviv)
Exhibition of artists-winners of artrating
Sergey Gai (Lviv)
The exhibition of Serhiy Hai at the Marine Art Gallery began a series of exhibitions of remarkable Ukrainian artists. It become much easier for us and more pleasant because we worked with the Association of Galleries of Ukraine and represented the artworks of the winners of the Art Rating of Ukraine, which meant that our viewers could get acquainted with the work of the best artists and this was not a joke. The first exposition of this project was the exhibition of the Lviv artist Serhiy Hai.It was not so familiar to us that all the work of delivering the paintings and the artist himself was undertaken by his sponsor and philanthropist Yuri Komelkov. This happened for the first time and probably influenced our communication with Sergey.Unfortunately, we were not able to get to know Sergey properly, communication was limited.Since then, with great pleasure and attention, I have been watching the work of Serhiy Hai and I want to note his very painstaking attitude to his work. Once I happened to see a video of the process of creating a picture by Serhiy and it really impressed me. Serhiy, I'm sure of it, really one of the most talented painters of our time. And now I offer a few lines about the artist’s work taken from the press release for the exhibition:
“... The art world of the Lviv Serhiy is brightly individual, refined, even aristocratic. This painting is for the initiates, those who in their lives have not missed art, who are happy when a pearl can be found in the sea of artistic products. Serhiy Hai is a knight, poet, and at the same time a servant of colorism. Color is a means of self-expression of his personality. As an artistic reflection, it is this color that makes the artist's only opportunity to reveal himself to the world. The genre horizons of S. Hai’s canvases are not wide: a figure, a half-figure, a torso or a two-figure composition. Gaius' female figures with graceful forms and a state of self-deepening elusively echo Modigliani models.
Sometimes their poses are shockingly relaxed and hypersensitive. Involuntarily I recall Toulouse-Lautrec. The trace of French artistic preferences limited enough for painting Lviv throughout the 20th century is obvious. But the plots in Hai’s compositions are not a paradigm about the body and appearance of a person, but about the secret of the spirit living in the body shell. In everything that comes out from under the brush, one can feel the academic preparation, the observation of an analyst who knows how to notice the most important things in a gesture, in movement and to create a pantomimically flawless sign from it ... "
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