Ihor yaskevich

Each of us at birth, along with the gift of life, receives our life mission, the meaning of which we cannot know. The task is to unravel the essence and fulfill this mission. This is, in a way, a life quest. We dedicate our whole life to it.

in search of meaning

I searched for answers in the world of numbers and mathematics, later in the fields of industrial architecture and construction, then in the dark depths of the seas and in the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas. And only now did I understand that the task of each of us, after a long journey of search, after a series of conflicts and disputes with ourselves and fate, is to find inner harmony and agreement between ourselves and the Universe.

At the beginning of life, we seem to create several of our own Parallel Worlds, moving through them simultaneously, and ultimately choosing our own — unique and unrepeatable. I found my Parallel Universe and am ready to share the story of my search with you.

Each of my works

— part of this story, like a small foundation block for building a magnificent structure called MAN OF PLANET EARTH!!!

The desire to create is inherent in each of us.

from birth, but only a few become professional artists. At the same time, an innate tendency to creativity can manifest itself quite unexpectedly, in adulthood. The exhibition "Parallel Universe" is a vivid example of this.

Everest

Less than three years had passed since visiting the Top of the World, when out of nowhere came the desire and inspiration to capture the memory of the Top in a bizarre STEAMPUNK style.
The integral and key Hero of the miniature is the constant companion in life and the talisman of the ascent of the Squirrel Skret from "Ice Age". She has already passed the cracks of the deadly Khumbu glacier (altitude 6000 m) with ladders and railings (left side of the miniature). She passed the so-called Balcony (altitude 8400 m), where dozens of used oxygen cylinders are left (right side of the miniature). Here, on the Balcony, a real story about the forced cessation of the ascent and the return to the assault camp (altitude 7900 m) to replace the empty, for unknown reasons, cylinders with full ones happened. However, this did not break Skret.

A second assault and Squirrel is one step closer to the Summit (altitude 8848 m). Her claws grip the rock tightly, her ice axe is securely stuck into the Mountain, her flashlight illuminates the Stone on the Summit (a real Stone from the Mountain), and the Moon sheds light on her path!
We must go, because the silent witnesses, the climbers who remained on the Mountain forever, tell us that we cannot give up, there will be no other chance, and euphoria and the Life Prize* await the Hero at the Top of the World, as a reward for all his efforts!!!

EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN EVEREST!!!

Orest Holubets

Professor, Doctor of Art History, Academician of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine

Ihor Yaskevych began to create after realizing his extreme hobbies, when he visited the top of Everest (8848 meters) and dived 60 meters into the depths of the sea (Blue Hole). It was then that the world opened up before him in completely new dimensions and meanings, and he felt a desire to share his impressions with others.
A person can change many things in life, choose their own path, develop and improve, try to influence their peers and surrounding events. The only thing they cannot change is the flow of time. It moves beyond our will, constant and unstoppable. Or, perhaps, it does not move at all and we invented this movement ourselves, so that it would not be so scary to be in the boundless universe. Time cannot be stopped, accelerated or slowed down. You can only try to understand it and live in harmony with it.

The theme of the passage of time, its philosophical understanding runs like a "red thread" through the work of I. Yaskevych. It was she who became the initial stimulus, the primary impetus of the creative process. It is not for nothing that in many of the author's works we encounter the dials of old watches, the dominance of rounded forms and clearly calibrated rhythmic patterns. The very titles of the works are connected with the author's favorite theme. In some of them, such a connection is quite obvious ("Time Floats", "Live Today", "Portal", "Hunter for Time"), in others - it is quite associative, directed to the historical past ("The Thinker", "Pharaohs", "Sisyphus' Choice", "Apocalypse", "All-Seeing Eye").

The very form of I. Yaskevych's works is also involved in a certain way of understanding the universe-time. All his compositions are deployed on heavy, black granite stands, as if imaginatively "carved" from the boundless blackness of the universe. The compositions are covered with glass cubes (less often parallelepipeds), which seem to visually record parts of the space used by the author, as well as the moment of his completion of a specific creative stage. This way of displaying three-dimensional objects evokes certain associations with relics of the past, precious museum exhibits.