Landscape. Fragments (A series of paintings)

Returning to a well-known landscape sometimes becomes a necessity for me. Usually, I observe a familiar space from afar like a map of imaginary landscapes layered over time. For me, a specific place is only a pretext for a landscape. When I am close to the landscape, I manage to slow down my own gesture, to decompose it into phases.

Series of works on paper, 62 x 101, acrylic, ink, gouache on paper

A series of paintings

Sculpture, spatial installation. Wood, paint

White

Series of paintings

The color white is encumbered with multiple symbolic meanings. Moved to the sphere of artifacts, it is emancipated from interpretations typical of the vulgar material environment. By freeing the color’s potential energy from its familiar aesthetic context, the White in White series emerges as a visual document following a diverse range of symbols. The color white is best suited for making the concealed and the illogical newly relevant because it implies a superficial diversity of feelings.

A series of paintings based on Ukrainian Baroque (oil on canvas)

In his Secrets of Life, Budnikov voices a deeply personal reflection on the baroque’s affinity for contrasts. He succeeds in offering a balanced panorama of, so to say, formal contrasts too: light and shadows, almost strikingly decorative works and profound painterly usage of tonal play; space and planes; easel painting par excellence and hieroglyphic usage of signs;

Series of paintings (1970 - 1990)