One can examine the concept of areality in Vasyl Bazhaj's creativity from different positions. However, taking into account the idea of universality of a work of art and its forms, as well as talking about semiotic essence of the art, we'll try to use the linguistic analysis. The structural integrity of such analysis will allow us to interpret the submitted idea of an exhibition from a position of its creation. What is areality? Analyzing such creative postulate of the artist, one can see two basic forms of its treatment. They, exactly, will be considered in our further text.
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(Art Palace, Lviv, 2000 - "SoviART" Center, Kyiv, 2001)
While writing this article I cannot stop to think about the correlation between the philosophical and artistic approach to the problem anyone puts before itself. Besides, for once more anybody can see Bazhay's mastership in solving such problems. His last exhibition "de-termino"/antithesis, where artist represents two points of view (textual and visual) at the phenomenon of painting, can't be an exception from the general rule. Bazhay always was interested in the problem of relationship between linguistic and visual text, as the basis of semiotic structures' joint existence. That is why we can find this problem in his exhibitions.
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Other
articles:
Vasyl Bazhaj. Recent years (article about
artist's installations, 1998) >>
Одвічний потяг до
експерименту 1998 ( 
ukr) >>
Недосліджені можливості
мистецького генія 1995 (
ukr) >>
Project "DE-TERMINO / antithesis", 2000
The Concept
The global commercialization and informatization of society and art environment, fashion and scandals of the new types of art (pornography in photo- and video-art, strangeness in performances and happenings, grandiosity of installation, ugliness and poverty of Arte-povera) ousted the painting. The auditorium of its admirers also changed. From now, abstract painting - is luxury and prestige for millionaires, whereas middle class still call for "circumses and panem" of new media in art.
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(conceptual text from the exhibition calatogue)
""... the work of art. the wall. an installation. a sheet of paper. a sign. a sign ? was it really a sign ??? ...""
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