Mykhailo Krasnyk (1955 — famous Ukrainian artist, one of the founders of Ukrainian tactile abstraction in graphics and painting. The new project “Biased Assemblies” — speaks of the awareness of the absurdity felt recently in space. Disused items, a combination of which there is no logical connection, actually exacerbate a vulnerable attitude to reality. The surfaces of the objects are hard, they hurt like reality and the only resistance is to create their own logic of forms, which the artist himself is able to control. Therefore, its biased reality is like a form of resistance to reality, and the new harmony is a model of a new object order.

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There were biased forms in Krasnyk's assemblies as early as the mid-1990s, because he needed a new reality on the ruins of the old social system. Therefore, the subject irony of wooden bars, plastic metaphors — were such a dadaist grotesque, as: “... you live in your world, I will create another for myself, because I am tired of you...”. Then no one took Krasnik's remarks seriously, because they did all the experiments: original and secondary..., There were a lot of them. Then Mikhail still made “matrices” on paper, graphic compositions in the technique of blind stamping and using postage stamps. That “tactile garbage” was perceived by everyone as plastic virtuosity, and Krasnyk himself saw in it the logic of fixing time in objects. Krasnyk was not alone in those exercises, because the postage stamps were also glued by Lviv guru Vlodko Kaufman and all his Lviv epigones. But Krasnyk is always consistent in the observed textures, because after the stamps and scraps of paper soon followed fragments of various matter, parts of metal, and wood. In the end, the apogee of these textures was the design of the Bar “Bidon” in Lviv, where Mykhailo gave himself all his freedom and gave out all the typical and stereotypical garbage in three large-scale assembles-showcases.

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A very different language of the ensembles was after Covid 2019, for the artist almost literally retells his vision of the apocalypse: with imaginary landscapes of the wasteland and the “mushroom of a nuclear explosion”. Over time, this imagery overgrows the qualities of a new logic, where the artist seems to construct the world of what will come after the desolation. Elements of the former history point to new coordinates, as if the “new Suprematism” of the 21st century. The intersubjective connections of the spatial compositions of Krasnyk only roughly resemble the forms of our world: they have its elements. The logic of these connections is devoid of objectivism, because the artist constructs detached thoughts.

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The new round of creative evolution of Mikhail Krasnyk after February 2022 should already be perceived as a topography of movement: for someone it is an escape, for someone - new vectors of development. Behind all this lie the locations of Krasnykova's imagination, which gives a feeling of space and freedom. It seems that new art must be objectionless, so as not to create new false simulators of reality.

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The exhibition project was carried out in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art of Korsaki and TSIM Mercury.

Bohdan Mysiuga

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