About me — nataliasatsyk.art

My art moves from an icon to an abstraction. I am looking for a modern sacred language. Rethinking the icon, I go deeper, paying attention to all its constituent components, from the Biblical text to the materials used to create sacred symbols. Exploring ancient techniques and experimenting with the newest materials. Based on the classical techniques used to paint icons, I am looking for new forms of expression that would speak to modern humans. I transmit the depths of the SKY due to the wax layers, in the technique of encaustics. Describing the EARTH, I take stones, grinding them into a pigment. I am looking for a HEAVENLY WORLD in three-dimensional plastics, based on wood and Levkas classical gesso. I try to convey the relief of the sky, in which I want to find the ANGELS and their messages. In printed graphics, I am looking for unrepeatable and unique, of each imprint. I try to rethink the world around us and show it through the prism of Christian art, discovering the new way for old long-familiar things. After graduating from the academy, I began to explore abstraction, looking for not a plot, but a mood, a brief moment that will pass unnoticed if it is not caught. It is in these moments that there is much truth, and sincerity, and trust. Eternity is reflected in the icon, so in my abstractions, I look for fluidity. The moment, which happened to be here almost by chance. Life is full of such moments. Every movement of yours, every thought of yours is precious, every breath of yours is a gift! The value of life is the value of man and everything around. The meaning is in everything! In my art, I show more of what surrounds us SIGNS and SYMBOLS. I work to show the transition to the spirit world - OPEN HEAVEN

Natalia Satsyk, born 1984, based in Lutsk, Ukraine

2002-2008 Lviv National Art Academy, Sacred Art Department,

Diploma: Master of Fine Arts.

1999-2002 Lutsk Art College, Painting Department

ART RESIDENCE / SCHOLARSHIPS:

2019 Symbolum Sacrum Stipendiate in Dusseldorf, Germany

2015 Rotterdam — Henry Nuven Stitting, The Netherlands

2008 Symbolum Sacrum Stipendiate in Lviv, Ukraine

2006 Internship at the Warsaw Academy of Arts, Department of Painting, Poland

PROJECTS/PUBLIC SPACES:

2017 -2022 “GOLDEN HORIZON” Chapel design in Maurice Zundel, Geneva, Switzerland.

2019 “DANTE CIRCLES” Wall painting in the chapel Heart Home, Lviv, Ukraine

2018 “TRANSFIGURATION” Altarpiece for a mountain chapel in Letino, Italy.

2013 -2015 “NEAR THE CRUCIFIXION” Altarpiece for the Heart Home Chapel,

Vienna, Austria.

SOLO EXHIBITION:

2020 “HEAVENLY IMAGE“ spiritual retreat center «Archistratig» Lviv

2019 “QUAND LA TERRE DEVINT LE CIEL” Orval Abbey, Belgium

2016 “WHAT ANGELS CONCEAL” Egmond Abbey, Egmond aan Zee,

The Netherlands

2010 “LIFE WITH ANGELS“ Diocesan Museum of Poznan, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2022 “MEETING WITH THE RISEN” participation in the international icon-painting plein air in Warsaw, Poland.

2020 “IMMUNITY” Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art Korsak Lutsk

2019 “Psalms” participation in the international icon-painting plein air in

Nowy Sacz, Poland.

2017 “ABOUT GRAPHICS” union of artists of Volyn, Lutsk.

2011 “FLIGHT” Primus Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

2010 “LONELINESS-PRESENCE” Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine

2009 “ANNOUNCEMENT” Ivano-Frankivsk State Art Museum, Ukraine

2008 “EUCHARISt” Museum of the History of Religion, Lviv, Ukraine

2007 “INRI” State Art Museum Chernivtsi, Ukraine

2006 “CACTUS FOR SHEPTYTSKY” National Art Museum, Lviv, Ukraine

PUBLICATIONS:

2011 “NOËL, LE MYSTÈRE” illustrations you design, Duh-i-Litera publishing house,

Kyiv, Ukraine

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art Korsak

Symbolum Sacrum Foundation, Lviv, Ukraine

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, USA, France, India, Belgeum and Ukraine

When you are one to one with God, you understand everything, all around you becomes the language of God.