{"id":119,"date":"2025-10-02T14:51:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/?p=119"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:48:24","slug":"vasyl-tkachenko-lyakh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/en\/vasyl-tkachenko-lyakh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

untitled, 2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 210 cm
untitled, 2024, oil on canvas, 210 x 200 cm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vasyl works with different media\u2014painting, film, photography and music. Their combination and interplay form an organic part of his artistic thinking and language. The artist explores the themes of memory and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vasyl\u2019s artistic practice as a painter effectively began with the full-scale invasion. He then moved from Kyiv to an artist friend in Lviv. His parents were in occupied Mariupol, and it was impossible to contact them. To distract himself from grief and distressing news, Vasyl began to paint. One of his first works, which initiated the series \u2018Untitled\u2019\u2014a large-format canvas depicting the effects of an explosion as the artist imagined it\u2014was created in Lviv. The pieces from this series form a kind of diary that records Vasyl\u2019s state at the time, based on his memories, conversations with loved ones and documentary photographs. Lacking formal artistic training, he painted intuitively, guided by instinct, unconcerned with proportions or composition, focusing instead on the act of painting itself and on the personal experiences he wished to express. The artist devised his own performative method of constructing a composition and telling a story\u2014first photographing himself in different poses, then inviting friends to join him in staging the scenes he wanted to portray on canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Vasyl pays greater attention to technique and compositional structure. One of his latest works\u2014also untitled\u2014shows a man who is sleeping, or perhaps dead, in a steppe overgrown with feather grass, or perhaps on the seashore\u2014in Mariupol? Its balanced composition, carefully chosen colours, tonal range and meticulously refined details mark a new stage in the artist\u2019s practice. Yet the uncertainty and ambiguity of Vasyl\u2019s imagery remain unchanged\u2014they continue to remind us of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh), untitled, 2024, oil on canvas, 210 x 200 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh), untitled, 2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 210 cm; untitled, 2024, oil on canvas, 210 x 200 cm, photo by Wojciech Pacewicz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh) untitled, 2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 210 cmuntitled, 2024, oil on canvas, 210 x 200 cm Vasyl works with different media\u2014painting, film, photography and music. Their combination and interplay form an organic part of his artistic thinking and language. The artist explores the themes of memory and identity. Vasyl\u2019s artistic practice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}