Beauty in the Ordinary: Vasily Sad solo exhibition

ArteLia gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the Ukrainian artist Vasily Sad. The exhibition “Beauty in the Ordinary” consists of group of paintings, most of which are artist’s signature metal works. The selected retrospective aims to capture the beauty of the ordinary things that surround us every day. The exhibition offers a close look at the world of Vasily Sad revealing his preoccupations with the forms, plasticity, colour and textures of the materials he uses to create an artwork.

Finding beauty in the ordinary is not just about discovering the hidden essence but rather about the artist's skills to extract the intensity of an object, be it a scrap of metal found on the street or a handmade carpet or canvas. In doing so, Sad creates the breathtaking artworks, which draw our attention to the beauty that usually remains unnoticed in the rush of our everyday routine.

Sad once mentioned that ‘The beauty is in simplicity' and his abstract artworks magnificently capture the simple Beauty in the Ordinary. Sad relentlessly believes that it is only with abstraction one can 'get through to the secrets of human existence and nature' and he aims for his works to be simple, organic and spontaneous.

VASILY SAD is a key exponent of Ukrainian abstract art. Sad graduated from Odessa Grekov College of Arts in 1977 and joined the Odessa school of non-conformism which was active during the so-called Avant-Garde of the ‘second wave’ in the 1960s-1980s. Works by Vasily Sad are in collections in America, Canada, the UK, Italy, Russia and Ukraine. The numerous exhibitions include Phillips de Pury Contemporary Auction and MacDougall’s Auction (London), Zurich International Contemporary Art Fair (Switzerland) and Edinburgh Art Fair (Scotland).