Vyacheslav Breysh. Rhythm of Three Worlds

In each of Vyacheslav Breysh’s works, movement plays the leading role. His figures exist in a plastic rhythm: sharp, broken, tense, almost musical. They seem assembled from fragments of wood, metal and ancient textures, yet they are filled with excessive inner energy. This energy creates the artist’s three worlds: jazz, Cossack Ukraine, and Japan.

In the jazz series, the rhythm is heard literally. Elongated figures, exaggerated arms, trembling lines and cubist vibrations around the musicians transform sound into a visual wave. Breysh’s jazzmen don’t just play — they fly, improvise with their bodies, dissolving space in a musical breath.

In the Cossack cycle, the rhythm becomes a strike. It is a rhythm of strength—muscular, steppe-born, primal. The Cossacks, like wooden sculptures, come to life in a moment of tension: a raised mace, a half-turn, the cross-shaped cracks of craquelure that resemble traces of time and battles. They pulse with the energy of the Ukrainian archetype — heavy, integral, unbreakable.

In the Japanese works, the rhythm is different — ritualistic, sharpened-calm. Geishas and samurais exist within the geometry of gesture: precise, calligraphic, deeply internal. Their movements are like elements of a ceremony, where every line has its own weight. Folded planes of fabrics, swords and objects form a space of meditative order and restrained tension.

The three series are united by the author’s visual language — a romantic figurative postmodernism in which the body becomes a symbol, and the texture emphasizes the depth and character of the image. All of Breysh’s characters, regardless of culture or era, speak one language — the language of rhythm. The rhythm of music. The rhythm of strength. The rhythm of ritual.

"Rhythm of Three Worlds" is an exhibition about energy that flows from body to gesture, from gesture to history, and from history to the present. It shows how different cultures can resonate together when the artist hears their common pulse.

Opening: December 11, 2025 (Thursday), 18:00.

Duration: December 12, 2025 – January 18, 2026.

Location: Vakulenko Art Consulting, Kyiv, 8 Kostyolna St.

Hours: 11:00–19:00 (Monday and Tuesday closed).

Admission free.