MARYNA HANDYSH
SCULPTOR
CERAMIST ARTIST
2022
65*30*20 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting
The work was created at the KERAMIS residency, La Louvre, Belgium
This is a story of butterflies transforming into warriors because the flowers of their field were pierced by arrows - golden and scorching. I have witnessed such a metamorphosis in my country since February 24th: people have become warriors, a bit hardened by pain, but resilient and determined with their hearts on their sleeves, which can easily be hurt to cause the most pain.
COMPELLED SOLDIERS
UNGRAFTED TREE
2022
120*80*50 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting
The work was created at the KERAMIS residency, La Louvre, Belgium
I am a detached tree. I want to be calm, find a place to put down roots, and carry with me and preserve all the memories of my home.
SEMI-LIGHT AND
SEMI-SHADOWS
OF MY FOREST
2022
20*20*2 cm
Porcelain, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting, decol
The work was created at the KERAMIS residency, La Louvre, Belgium
THE FAMILY
2015
100*60*100 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting, Raku ware technology
This work was created at the International ceramics plein-air "Art-zhizhal" in Belarus.
Granted to the Museum of Modern Art “InSTAN” in Dnipro.
Exhibitions:
Museum of modern art “InSTAN” Dnipro 2017
"Tseglyna" gallery, Tseglyna art festival Kyiv 2017
Composition is made of three figures - male, female and child torsos. They are leaning on each other. If any of the figures is placed solely, it has no fulcrum and collapses. Only when all the figures rest on each other, a solid composition is formed.
FIELD TALK
2017
120*50*100 cm
Chamotte, glaze
Hand sculpting
Sculpture was created at the National Ukrainian symposium "Wonderworld" at the village of Mala Bilozirka, Ukraine.
Exhibited at a boarding school for gifted children in the village of Mala Bilozirka
Talk of celestial bodies about the history of the steppe region, the eternal struggle for the right to live on these lands. By opening the book of Genesis, one can only accept everything that was, everything that should be.
GOSSIP
2013
85*40*4 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting, Raku ware technology
This work was created at the International ceramics plein-air "Art-zhizhal" in Belarus.
Exhibitions:
"Tseglyna" gallery, Tseglyna art festival Kyiv 2015
The work describes a list of events that often follows a person in society. Gossip made up from the air and personal experiences of a person surrounded by false information about himself
THE HUGS
2014
60*40*40 cm
Chamotte, glaze
Hand sculpting
Project made at the International Ceramics Symposium "2014:14х14" in Opishne, Ukraine.
Exhibitions:
Main exhibition of the National Museum of Pottery, Opishne, Ukraine
The theme of this project is zoomorphism. It came to me while speculating about the responsibility to the animals we tamed. Our attitude to these beings is of high importance. The inhabitants of the planet, who connect their lives with man, who need love and care for themselves for so many years.
MOKOSHA
2015
70*60*120 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting
Sculpture was created at the National Ukrainian symposium "Wonderworld" at the village of Mala Bilozirka, Ukraine.
Exhibited at a boarding school for gifted children in the village of Mala Bilozirka.
Mokosha, the great goddess, the patroness of mermaids, the water world, rains and crops.
For me, the world of Ukrainian mythology is always about harmony in nature. It's all about its wild identity. Mokosha is coming out of the river water lily, gently holds a duck in her hands, wants to release it into the sky.
THE FOREST
2013
25*25*60 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting, Raku ware technology
This work was created at the symposium "Ethnocode" in Lviv.
This work is the research of plastic interaction of glass and ceramics.
THE COLOR OF THE WIND
2017
60*25*35 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting, Raku ware technology
The work was created during the international symposium "Bukovyna" in Chernivtsi.
Exhibitions:
Collection of "Gallery on Steinberg", Chernivtsi.
The theme of the symposium was Japanese culture. Traditional techniques were studied by copying traditional vats at the workshops. We also created works on Japanese themes. I decided to beat this topic not with a stylistic content, but with a philosophical approach, based on traditional short Japanese poem. So in real these ladies hold the conversation about the wind. They speculate about the color of the wind.
THE LADY & THE CLOUD
2014
20*30*40 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting, Raku ware technology
This work was created at the International ceramics plein-air "Art-zhizhal" in Belarus.
Granted to the Museum of Fine arts, Bobryisk.
Dreamy image of a lady, whose mind's is the clouds. She caught a piece of sky and holds it next to heart now.
THE LADY & THE STOOL
2017
15*15*15 cm
Chamotte, glaze, oxids
Hand sculpting, Raku ware technology
The work was created at the International Symposium "Bukovyna"
Exhibitions:
Art auction "Christmas commotion" in "Ya Gallery" Lviv, 2019,
Private collection.
Fixed pose of a person during evening speculations. Alone.
