About art and about himself

About the Artist’s Mission

The artist is born for a certain piece of land, which he shouldn’t change or improve. The task of the master is to record the processes taking place in his province. Paintings, sculptures or architectural forms make up the material culture of the people, and it’s not the artist’s job to judge: he must only care about his works giving the next generation a correct idea of who lived before them, what he thought and did.

About the Social Realism

As a student, I understood that Soviet realistic art is a road to nowhere. Of course, in a hundred or a thousand years, the descendants will want to know how their ancestors lived and what they did. Just as it is interesting for us today to look, for example, on terracotta warriors found in Shi Huangdi’s burial place. Soviet art would also be interesting and useful unless it jammed and put pressure on everything else around it.

About the Standards in Art

At the time of socialism, there were clear standards for everything. For example, if an artist made a sculpture of a Soviet soldier, then instead of working on an image, he had to go to the museum and measure the width of the fastener, the length of the belt, and count how many holes in it were punctured. The improvisation wasn’t allowed. But I was lucky: I handed all the work to the art council at once, because I molded it so that the holes on the belt or on the machine gun couldn’t be seen.

About Mathematics in the Art

We learned plastic anatomy at the institute not in order to sculpt bones, but in order to forget about them while created the image. The same thing is for the perspective, symmetry. They are very important things, but in his work, the artist shouldn’t switch to mathematics.

About the Prospects of Ukrainian Culture

The main problem of Ukraine is the lack of a civilized art market. The logic is simple: the poorer the artist, the more talented he is. And if you couldn’t stand it and ‘was destroyed”, well... art requires sacrifice.

What needs to be done in Ukraine to help talents? Nothing, just don’t close the sun. Remember, as Diogenes told Macedonian ‘Leave, you block the sun’? 

First of all, it’s necessary to enable the middle class to realize themselves, so that the doctors, teachers, small entrepreneurs had the financial opportunity to purchase a picture or put a favorite sculpture on the fireplace. Although the fireplace isn’t a great achievement it’s a sign of the liberation of the soul.

About the Nationalism

The nationalism is the term opposite to the concept of capture, enslavement, destruction, use. This is above all a social issue that preaches the worthy life of the community of people in the territory given by God.

About the Galician Nationalists

Being a student I came home for Easter and heard not only Ukrainian on the street. People spoke Polish, Italian, French, German: depending on the place where the one worked, studied, served, was in captivity, the language of that country he used. Galychyna is such an ingot of civilizational traditions, cultures, languages, that there couldn’t be any aggression to a foreign language person a priori. The Russian-speaking, in order to survive in Galicia, shouldn’t have been a bastard, that’s all.

The Galicians’ problem was in fact that as soon as they were going to solve some social issues, coordinate their actions with the authorities, the black forces flew in, destroyed, burned, cut everything and complained that they were being beaten.

About Communism

The communism is a denial of Christian, national, and family traditions. In fact, this is an artificial incubation, a path to nowhere, a road to hell.

About the Substitution of the Genetic Code

For decades, the best of its representatives were pulled out of our nation, and if they couldn’t break them, they destroyed them. And the rest were given shovels, sweatshirts, tarpaulin boots and showed Africa, saying at the same time ‘You live in paradise’. At the same time, they carefully monitored that the Soviet zombies didn’t see how Europe lives.