THE BIG EASY / AUGSBURG CONTEMPORARY II

O L E K S I Y
K O V A L
T H E
B I G
E A S Y
AUGSBURG
CONTEMPORARY
MAY 5 –
JUNE 8
2024

Painting is the application of color(s) by hand or some tool to a surface. That is, a painter deals with color, surface, and movement. We now know countless color systems, even the division of the surface has become a science, but the movement in painting remains “an unexplored forest”. The movements in the succession of time, in juxtaposition with the surface, were and are my guidelines for painting to this day. At the age of 17, I didn’t really know it yet, but I experienced the rhythm of applying colors intensely for the first time. In my mid-20s, I realized that rhythm gives form to the application of color. … The rhythm brings out the primary qualities of painting. If the rhythm of the color on the surface is right, the painting is right. I have paint and a surface in front of me. I put the paint on the surface and get 1,2, or 8. I paint until I beat the surface! 

From: Ping Pong. Oleksiy Koval in an interview with Selima Niggl, in: Oleksiy Koval, Acht, published by Kastner, Munich 2023.

augsburg contemporary, Bergstr. 11, 86199 Augsburg-Göggingen, Fon: +49 (0) 8251/871630. Öffnungszeiten: Freitags / Samstags 14-17 Uhr.

Unser Ausstellungsprogramm 2024 wird gefördert durch die Arno Buchegger Stiftung, Kremer Pigmente, das Kulturreferat der Stadt Augsburg und von Kreativ-Transfer aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Flyer). Die Ausstellung “The Big Easy” von Oleksiy Koval wir auch zusätzlich gefördert durch CREAVENTIS.