Alexander Bondarchuk
b. Dnipro, Ukraine, 1957
y. active 1989 - present
Ruined City (can be displayed horizontally or vertically)
pastel on paper, 13.8 x 19.7 in
Created on June 27, 2022
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See all of the works in the exhibit HERE
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At the time of painting, the artist was in Dnipro in central Ukraine in his suburban studio. He did not have to flee.
$1,300
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This painting works in unison with the Scattered Around the World one and shows consequences of any conflict: When bombs throw people’s houses around a city - people that lived there get scattered all over the world.
Instead of being literal and painting ruined buildings with holes from shelling, Alexander portrays houses as if they were simply picked up and tossed by some invisible force.
Alexander was born in the city of Dnipro (then Dnipropertrovsk) - a major industrial city in the center of the country, where the largest bank is headquartered, and space rockets are being built. At the age of 10 Alexander started art school finishing in four years. Later, he graduated from the Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in his native city, while apprenticing with a variety of accomplished sculptors and painters from all of the former Soviet Union. In 2001 he founded his own architecture and design studio -DAN- finishing many private and public projects in Ukraine. Alexander enjoyed taking part in the international design competitions, winning several, most notably a door handle for the upscale Italian design house - Linea Cali, and design of the hotel suites for a European hotel chain. Some of his submissions can be seen here. When the first phase of the war began in 2014 he had to close his studio and found himself in pottery and utilitarian art.
