SELECTED WORKS 2024-2025

YURA KIMAKOVYCH’S JOURNEY AS AN ARTIST IS ONE OF TRANSFORMATION AND REDISCOVERY. IN THE EARLY STAGES OF HIS CAREER, HE FOCUSED ON THE HUMAN FACE — ITS FORMS, ITS TRANSFORMATIONS, AND THE NARRATIVES IT COULD CONVEY. THIS FASCINATION WITH THE HUMAN FIGURE NATURALLY EVOLVED INTO AN EXPLORATION OF ABSTRACTION, WHERE HE DISCOVERED A NEW VISUAL LANGUAGE THROUGH GEOMETRY, COLOR, AND THE INTERPLAY OF SHAPES.

FOR NEARLY SIX YEARS, KIMAKOVYCH DEDICATED HIMSELF TO THE WORLD OF GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION. HIS WORK DURING THIS PERIOD DELVED DEEPLY INTO THE BALANCE, HARMONY, AND CONCEPTUAL DEPTH OF NON-REPRESENTATIONAL ART, CREATING COMPOSITIONS THAT ENGAGED VIEWERS ON AN INTELLECTUAL AND EMOTIONAL LEVEL.

IN 2024, HIS PRACTICE TOOK A NEW TURN. DRAWN BACK TO THE HUMAN SUBJECT, KIMAKOVYCH BEGAN TO REINTRODUCE FIGURATION INTO HIS WORK, APPROACHING IT WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNIQUES HONED DURING HIS YEARS IN ABSTRACTION. HIS CURRENT BODY OF WORK MASTERFULLY BLENDS THE STRUCTURED LANGUAGE OF GEOMETRIC FORMS WITH THE EXPRESSIVE POSSIBILITIES OF THE HUMAN FIGURE, CREATING A SYNTHESIS THAT IS BOTH CONCEPTUAL AND DEEPLY PERSONAL.

THIS RETURN TO FIGURATION IS NOT A DEPARTURE FROM HIS ABSTRACT WORK BUT AN EVOLUTION — A BRIDGE BETWEEN HIS EARLY EXPLORATIONS OF THE HUMAN FACE AND HIS LATER EXPERIMENTS IN GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION. THROUGH THIS FUSION, KIMAKOVYCH CAPTURES THE COMPLEXITY OF HUMAN IDENTITY AND EMOTION WHILE EMBRACING THE GEOMETRIC AND CUBIST INFLUENCES THAT HAVE BECOME HALLMARKS OF HIS STYLE. HIS WORK INVITES VIEWERS TO CONNECT WITH BOTH THE ABSTRACT AND THE FAMILIAR, OFFERING A PROFOUND EXPLORATION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN.