Bathing in Darkness, 2025
Painting : acrylic · 70 x 50 x 2 cm 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang
€1,800
1 800 €
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
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Dimensions ( cm • inch )
70 x 50 x 2 cm 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
In Bathing in Darkness, Zakhar Shevchuk approaches the human figure through a language of fluid abstraction. The woman standing in the shower is suggested through soft contours rather than described, her presence emerging from a cascade of translucent blue tones. The atmospheric brushwork creates a sense of movement and dissolving light, capturing not the scene itself but its emotional resonance.
The artwork plays with perception. The figure appears and disappears within the surrounding strokes, like a memory surfacing through mist. This ambiguity reflects Shevchuk's interest in how human experiences – especially vulnerable, intimate ones – resist clear definition. The water becomes both a physical element and a metaphor for transitions: between light and shadow, between clarity and obscurity, between the inner and outer self.
Through its poetic restraint, Bathing in Darkness offers a deeply personal moment rendered in contemporary abstract-figurative form. It invites quiet contemplation and rewards close, extended viewing.
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“I try to simplify the form to the point when it feels that nothing else shall be removed and only the essential elements remain. I transfer my impressions and self-reflections about objects into my paintings. I express what I feel rather than how I see, often arriving somewhere between figurative and abstract art." Zakhar Shevchuk
Zakhar Shevchuk is a young professional painter and draftsman, he holds a master in arts degree from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kyiv, Ukraine) and now himself teaches at the academy. His artworks are held in public and private collections worldwide, furthermore, he often participates in various public projects, such as painting murals and other monumental installations.
With years Zakhar's artistic style moved away from academic realism (which always tended closer to expressionism) and towards the style that in somewhere on the edge between figurative art and abstraction. In many of his works, even those that may seem as fully abstract ones, you will find some elements that were intentionally added, aiming to trick your brain into believing that you have finally found something recognisable, something that matches the reality, but then you suddenly loose it, starting the search over and over again.
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