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He is not famous in Ukraine, but well known on the West instead. He doesn’t arrange personal exhibitions, but his works are a part of private collections in Italy and Switzerland, USA and Germany, Spain and Monaco. Born on the 10th November of 1976 in the town of Bila Tserkva, now lives in Kiev. But he is hard to be caught in a certain place, in a certain country. He manages to work practically sixteen hours a day – creating an artwork takes usually three months to half a year, but at the same time he travels a lot. In the most of cases, at the first glance on his artwork, one gets a feeling, that there is a canvas behind the layer of paint. In the works by Yatsenko, there’s a parallel world behind that layer, and one can get into it, if he or she would like. At this work, he uses the mixed technique of oil painting and graphics, that enables him to create unique, exclusive artworks on the basis of combination of the peculiarities of oil material and abilities of graphical interpretation of the finest details. The artist also makes experiments with the decoration of furniture.
The door to the other side, to his fantastic world is always open, but for some it is like a wide open gate, for the others – enormous window, and for the rest – a narrow keyhole. The paintings of Yatsenko are like a fantastical lace of themes, without the beginning or end. His favorite painters are Hieronimus Bosch, Gustav Klimt and the impressionists, their creative work have had an impact on the construction of his world. They are endless, like time and space, and they float constantly from the one painting into another, carrying the fragments of memories, unsolved problems, and dreams. Here, at the edge between the real and imaginary, exists the thought of the artist.
One might think that he can stop this stream, and record the fragments of experiences and sensations and then depict them in the very detail on paper or canvas. Something like this enchanting world is nowhere else to be found.
His favorite phrase is: The world belongs to optimists, the pessimists are only spectators...
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