Painter · b. 1956, Transcarpathia
The architecture of a city,painted with temperament
Forty years of oil painting between Uzhhorod, Lviv, Košice and Bratislava — city façades and light, mountain landscapes, bouquets like living organisms, and abstraction charged with energy.
“The painter searches for the border, the relationship and the harmony between visual perception and the reflection of the soul — between the surface and the interior.”
PhDr. Bohumír Bachratý, CSc. — art historian, Bratislava
Work
Selected series140×100 cm
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About
Mykola Bodnar is a painter of architecture, of environment, and of the atmosphere of a city — Košice, Bratislava, Vienna. He paints his varied compositions with temperament and vitality.
He also paints the land: mountains, lakes and rivers, moody fragments of the forest, trees. His flower still lifes are both veristic and impressive — explosions and gentle exhalations of colour, large organisms of bouquets, whole systems of painterly intoxication with motif, colour and scent.
The second pole of his painting is abstraction, close to the heritage of informel and to action and gestural painting: a dynamic making-visible of the invisible, compositions overflowing with energy and radiant colour. Somewhere the abstractions interlace with a realistic detail — a figure, a nude, a human face.
- 1956
- Born 7 May in Transcarpathian Ukraine.
- 1971–75
- School of Applied Arts, Uzhhorod.
- 1979–84
- Academy of Fine Arts, Lviv.
- 1991
- Settles and paints in Košice, Slovakia.
- 2013
- Moves to Dunajská Lužná; regular guest at international symposia and painting plein-airs.
Exhibitions
Selected- 2018Pan-European University of Law, Bratislava
- 2015Apollo Business Center, Bratislava
- 2015Kaštieľ Studené, Most pri Bratislave
- 2014Presidential Palace of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava
- 2014CT Gallery / Galéria na poschodí, Bratislava
- 2013"K" Gallery, Bratislava
- 2012House of Original Crafts, Spišské Podhradie
- 2011Grandhotel Bellevue, Starý Smokovec
- 2009Galéria AURA, Žilina · Grandhotel Starý Smokovec
- 2006Galéria "FARMAS", Slovenská Ľupča
- 2003Museum of History and Art, Holešov, Czech Republic
- 2000Galéria GREMIUM, Bratislava
Contact
Studio visits and enquiries are welcome.
For availability, prices, commissions or exhibition requests, write or call — in Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian or English.
Telephone
+421 908 821 778Studio
Brezová 715/A, Dunajská Lužná, Slovakia