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In my work, it is important for me to observe people, to contemplate their diversity, dynamics and beauty, to catch the plasticity of bodies and faces.
Mariia Zhurykova
Mariia Zhurykova is an artist from Ukraine, born in 1988, living in Jávea, Spain. She studied Fine Arts at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv where she obtained a Master’s Degree. Work from these years has a lot of influence from the Ukrainian academic school and the Crimean art school, most of them are works of oil painting.
In 2015 she moved to Spain to expand her degree in Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She began participating in group shows in 2006 and had 13 solo exhibitions. In 2015 she opened the Gudzgallery art gallery together with her husband artist Anton Gudzykevych. At this time changes appeared in her expressive style, she became more abstract, and began to take on a projective character. Her work from the years 2007−2020 is based on the human figure, mostly female, exploring within this concept possibilities of a fusion of abstract art with figurative art.
Since 2020, the artist has been exploring the concept of interaction of people, their material and immaterial world, the points of contact of a person with the social and individual, which she represents in the project "Conexión", the most recent work reflects the situation of the war caused by Russia in Ukraine. In 2022 Mariia had big individual exhibition in Centre d´Art Taller Ivars in Benissa with project "Place of Joy and Pain" depicting reality of normal life and life during the war. It is a certain search for transformation from reality to canvas. In the years 2018−2023 she worked as a teacher for children in Gudzgallery. She continues to work at Gudzgallery as an artist and director.
In 2015 she moved to Spain to expand her degree in Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She began participating in group shows in 2006 and had 13 solo exhibitions. In 2015 she opened the Gudzgallery art gallery together with her husband artist Anton Gudzykevych. At this time changes appeared in her expressive style, she became more abstract, and began to take on a projective character. Her work from the years 2007−2020 is based on the human figure, mostly female, exploring within this concept possibilities of a fusion of abstract art with figurative art.
Since 2020, the artist has been exploring the concept of interaction of people, their material and immaterial world, the points of contact of a person with the social and individual, which she represents in the project "Conexión", the most recent work reflects the situation of the war caused by Russia in Ukraine. In 2022 Mariia had big individual exhibition in Centre d´Art Taller Ivars in Benissa with project "Place of Joy and Pain" depicting reality of normal life and life during the war. It is a certain search for transformation from reality to canvas. In the years 2018−2023 she worked as a teacher for children in Gudzgallery. She continues to work at Gudzgallery as an artist and director.
Artworks by Mariia Zhurykova
People & Goddesses
I am interested in the process of interaction between people, their material and non-material world, the points of contact of a person with the public and individual, in other words, his external and internal world. In my work, it is important for me to observe people, to contemplate their diversity, dynamics and beauty, to catch the plasticity of bodies and faces.
My narrative is about a simple course of this life, for example, like going to the market or swimming in the sea, the bustle of working days or a moment of contemplation to absorb the beauty of the passing day, dissolving in the warmth of light. This is a search for a certain pattern of displaying reality.
On the other hand, I see in the paintings the theme of a person’s knowledge of himself and others, spiritual world order, friendship, love, the birth of a new life. This is my view on the life cycle, which, after all, consists of many compounds that give rise to an uneven flow of impulses and interconnections.
My narrative is about a simple course of this life, for example, like going to the market or swimming in the sea, the bustle of working days or a moment of contemplation to absorb the beauty of the passing day, dissolving in the warmth of light. This is a search for a certain pattern of displaying reality.
On the other hand, I see in the paintings the theme of a person’s knowledge of himself and others, spiritual world order, friendship, love, the birth of a new life. This is my view on the life cycle, which, after all, consists of many compounds that give rise to an uneven flow of impulses and interconnections.
Body line. Abstraction
Bright colors and expresive lines, contrasting textures of picturesque and graphic materials, red, yellow, blue, color combinations, graphics, coal and sanguine, black, white and gold, and, of course, the female body in the center of the topic, the search and implementation of creative ideas underlie this series work on which Mariia continues to work actively.
The viewer will find here the spirit of creation, the mood of the moment of creation and creativity, structures, talking about eternal matters - light, earth, air, water, time. This is a story about life, enjoying the language of oil and acrylic painting.
"I cannot resist between the abstraction and figurative painting, Each language gives different possibilities of expression, I don´t divide them, but I rely base on graphic materiality of the first and information possibilities of the second,which give codes for contact with the viewer, as keys for mental dialogue between painting and reality. Project Building of light and earth represents current search in art, in abstract works, where the main structure is square, rectangle, so I think the space in oil painting, and, on the contrary, acryl allows working with fluidity of forms and decorative colors."
The viewer will find here the spirit of creation, the mood of the moment of creation and creativity, structures, talking about eternal matters - light, earth, air, water, time. This is a story about life, enjoying the language of oil and acrylic painting.
"I cannot resist between the abstraction and figurative painting, Each language gives different possibilities of expression, I don´t divide them, but I rely base on graphic materiality of the first and information possibilities of the second,which give codes for contact with the viewer, as keys for mental dialogue between painting and reality. Project Building of light and earth represents current search in art, in abstract works, where the main structure is square, rectangle, so I think the space in oil painting, and, on the contrary, acryl allows working with fluidity of forms and decorative colors."
Freedom of Beauty
Portraits of modern girls - youth and colors on bright pictures about modernity, simple and easy.
Listen and contemplate body music, enjoy the expressivity of lines and colors, as a continuation of the inner world, to feel the harmony of the moment.
Calm and energy fill the female images of this series of paintings.
Listen and contemplate body music, enjoy the expressivity of lines and colors, as a continuation of the inner world, to feel the harmony of the moment.
Calm and energy fill the female images of this series of paintings.
Nude
Observe and contemplate beauty in its original form, creating subtle individual images, external, as a continuation of the inner world, free, rich and varied, calm or energetic, quiet or rebellious, harmonious or seeking, where will you find consonance for yourself?