Taras Honcharenko, Serhii Herasymenko. At the Edge of Color

We perceive the World as light during the day and dark at night.

When it is illuminated by the sun’s rays, we do not think about their physical nature, about the combination of electromagnetic rays of different colors, about waves moving at lengths measured in nanometers, or about the speed at which photons travel.

We simply rejoice in the beginning of a new day, in the continuation of life.

For artists, it is much the same. Having acquired knowledge and skills, they experience a joyful sense of exhilaration through the opportunity to create — because this is their life...

The joy of life is precisely the impulse behind the work of both artists — Serhii Herasymenko and Taras Honcharenko.

They do not use a traditional palette for mixing paints.

Instead, color is applied directly to a prepared graphic surface or sculptural form, bypassing the process of mixing on a palette.
The pressure of the printing press or the fire of the muffle kiln completes the impulse.

Taras Honcharenko’s black-and-white linocuts are like day and night, like the ultimate boundary between additive and subtractive color mixing, between the emission of light and its absorption.

Serhii Herasymenko’s polychrome ceramics are like a rainbow after the rain, illuminating a cloudy sky with sunlight refracted through droplets of water into all the colors of the spectrum.

Taras Honcharenko’s linocuts are sheets of paper bearing the texts of Shakespeare’s plays, which, in the artist’s imagination, have transformed into graphic artistic images.

These are two-dimensional surfaces that have not yet acquired the three-dimensionality of the black box of the theater stage in contemporary productions of the great playwright’s works. A stage where, against a black background and under the light of spotlights, actors play their roles.

The images of Shakespeare’s characters in Taras Honcharenko’s linocuts are actors who have momentarily frozen in different poses within the two-dimensionality of the graphic print.

Serhii Herasymenko’s ceramic works are sculptural, three-dimensional, fantastically joyful characters who have found their colors through the artist’s exquisitely hyperbolic imagination.

In the context of the present day, they can be perceived as an attempt to capture the fragile state of reality — a moment when familiar structures are collapsing while new ones have not yet taken shape.

It is a combination of the fragility of the material with the magical power of fire.

Not a documentation of events, but rather an intuitive experience of time in which vulnerability and resilience coexist.

Each ceramic sculpture is a sensory image that does not lead the viewer, but instead invites them to wander along the paths of perceiving form and color.

Is there a limit to the perception of color? Physically — yes.

But artists are capable of shifting it! Given their extraordinary imagination and heightened sensitivity, only they can decide where that boundary will lie...

The exhibition opening will take place on August 14 at 6:00 PM.

The exhibition will run from August 14 to September 12, 2026, in the small hall of Imagine Point Gallery at 86/1 Holosiivskyi Avenue, Kyiv, entrance from the courtyard.

Opening hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM.