Volosenko Vladyslav
He was born in 1964 in Kyiv.
At the age of 12, he entered the Taras Shevchenko Republican Art School (Kyiv). There he realised that he wanted to study sculpture.
In 1991, he graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture). In the same year, he moved to Canada, where a new creative page of the artist’s biography began.
His first major work, “Male and Female Stones”, was made for Art Basel in Miami. Also, several marble works are presented in the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, and the limestone sculpture “Family” is located in Donald Trump Tower in Florida. Another part of the sculptor’s works is presented in private collections.
In 2008, he returned to Ukraine and became a member of the Ukrainian National Union of Artists.
2009 – participant of the symposium “De Profundis”, Kyiv, Mystetskyi Arsenal.
2011-2012 – two-time participant of the international sculptural symposium “Princely Mountain”, Kaniv.
Author of the only monument on the water in Ukraine, which was included in the nomination “Pearls of Ukraine” (Radomyshl, monument to Yelisey Pletenetsky).Vladyslav Volosenko works with wood, granite, marble. Exploring corporeality as one of the primary, pure forms, the sculptor continues the tradition of natural plastic lines established by Ukrainian sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries. In some works, he completely turns to abstraction, leaving the viewer to speculate on what the artist wanted to say. As Vladyslav notes, sculpture is a complex thing that can reveal itself even to the author himself over time. Therefore, a contemporary artist should be alone more often so that he does not lose the ability to see the main thing behind all the visual load.
Currently, the works of art from several series of the artist are exhibited at Art Ukraine Gallery.
