2018.11.30-12.22 ｜Volodymyr Nosan Solo Exhibition

Artist

Volodymyr Nosan

Info

2018.11.30-2018.12.22
Volodymyr Nosan Solo Exhibition
Hann Art Co., Ltd.

Overview

Nosan, an artist that founds his artistic inspiration on his cultural roots.

His brushes record the life of the common people; Nosan’s artwork reflects the sensitive eyes through which he inspects the rural life on the black soil. Through his effort to experience their lives, Nosan attempts to portray accurately and with precision, his emotions that are inspired by their ways of living, be it joy or melancholy.

All those that Nosan depicts in his paintings, such as the beautifully pictorial views of the birch forests and the slithering rivers; the scattered objects in villages, which can be water jugs, embroidered table cloths, bread or spinning wheels; the vibrantly lively orchestra of goats, cows, dogs and running hens are all colored with Nosan’s sincere and passionate love for his fatherland.

Nosan’s representations are straightforwardly honest. In his artwork, one can see its similarity to the childish playfulness of Russian- born Chagall’s art. Both feature a strong presence of cultural identity, both employ humor and caricature. The longing for the fatherland occupies a noticeable place in their art. However, Chagall’s artwork is characterized by its fairytale-like dreaminess, whereas Nosan’s artwork gravitates towards more realistic elements. Chagall’s art is full of love; his passionate love for his wife Bella is a well identified motif of his art. Nosan’s art, on the other hand, is evidently demonstrative of a different kind of love; it permeates a love for humanity, the land and life that takes on a more impersonal character.

Nosan uses wide lines and subjective colorings to resuscitate a strong presence of the soil. A simplistic and overarching method of distortion provides a way to bypass a demand for photographic details, so as to create the desired effect of the objects being on a plane. Nosan searches for a method of representation that allows freedom and levity.

We can perceive in Nosan’s artwork, the folk life of Ukraine and their positive attitude towards life. His art seems to conceal under the surface of the canvas, an accordion and bandura performance of Ukrainian folk music, or a recording of the sing-songs of Ukrainian youths, or even the stories of the black soil the elderly impart under the cloak of night… Nosan’s artwork is naturalistic and tenderly amicable.