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Time of War Series

Volodymyr Budnikov

Basic information

ID: Г-V-2761
Author: Volodymyr Budnikov
Name: Time of War Series
Date of creation: 2022
Country: Ukraine
Technique: mixed technique
Material: acrylic paint marker paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 42 x 60

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: symbolic art
Plot: russia-Ukraine war
Provenance: Gifted by Volodymyr Budnikov

Information about author

Author: Volodymyr Budnikov
Artist's lifetime: b.1947
Country: Ukraine
Biography: Volodymyr Budnikov was born in 1947. In 1965 graduated from Kyiv Art School. 1965–1971 – graduated from Kyiv Art Institute (studio of the academician T. Yablonska). Member of the National Artists Union of Ukraine (since 1975). Honored Art Worker of Ukraine. Professor Budnikov is teaching painting at the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. Artistic practices include painting, works on paper, and spatial objects. Lives and works in Kyiv. Currently lives and works in Berlin.

Object description

These works are part of the extensive "Time of War" series, which I began during russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and continue to work on to this day. russian aggression has brought destruction and death and, at the same time, raised a pressing question for the entire world: how do we define the evil that lures a person until all that is human within them perishes? To my mind, the russian state not only brings about physical death but, since the Soviet era, it has strived to eradicate human qualities from the living. I am witnessing an army of the dead, against which the living humanity must unite, or else it will face the triumph of death. (V. Budnikov).

Inscriptions

On the reverse side, in the upper right corner, there is an artist's signature: Будніков В. / Серія «Час війни» / Львів, 2022

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery