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Anton Saenko: Heads and Horizons
Dymchuk Gallery presents Anton Saenko鈥檚 solo exhibition Heads and Horizons. The exhibition features works from 2022 to 2025. In these works, the artist focuses on two images that appear as primary symbols of his painting.
Saenko鈥檚 heads are not traditional portraits. They do not depict a specific person, but instead serve as general representations that verge on abstraction. These heads appear as expressions of emotional states, where faces without highlights or illuminated features are present, and shapes are broken down into expressive brushstrokes. The artist refers to them as 鈥渉eads of warrior-poets.鈥� For him, this approach marks a return to his artistic beginnings, when he started by drawing heads and portraits.
The horizons also have a character of return. They have long been a recognizable motif in the artist鈥檚 work 鈥� austere, almost monochrome landscapes that reflect his own style. Here, Saienko maintains a minimalistic approach while focusing on the essence of painting. The landscapes are reminiscent of devastated spaces, which can today be easily interpreted as war zones, yet remain abstract, like symbolic boundaries.
In Heads and Horizons, these two central images are shown together, indicating both a new direction for the artist and a return to his origins. The paintings become a space where images and abstract forms, as well as presence and absence, interact and overlap.
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Dymchuk Gallery presents Anton Saenko鈥檚 solo exhibition Heads and Horizons. The exhibition features works from 2022 to 2025. In these works, the artist focuses on two images that appear as primary symbols of his painting.
Saenko鈥檚 heads are not traditional portraits. They do not depict a specific person, but instead serve as general representations that verge on abstraction. These heads appear as expressions of emotional states, where faces without highlights or illuminated features are present, and shapes are broken down into expressive brushstrokes. The artist refers to them as 鈥渉eads of warrior-poets.鈥� For him, this approach marks a return to his artistic beginnings, when he started by drawing heads and portraits.
The horizons also have a character of return. They have long been a recognizable motif in the artist鈥檚 work 鈥� austere, almost monochrome landscapes that reflect his own style. Here, Saienko maintains a minimalistic approach while focusing on the essence of painting. The landscapes are reminiscent of devastated spaces, which can today be easily interpreted as war zones, yet remain abstract, like symbolic boundaries.
In Heads and Horizons, these two central images are shown together, indicating both a new direction for the artist and a return to his origins. The paintings become a space where images and abstract forms, as well as presence and absence, interact and overlap.
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